462 FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. C11. 448. 1898. . not exceeding one thousand five hundred dollars, twentytive cents; and on each five hundred dollars or fractional part thereof in excess of Pr•vi•¤· fifteen hundred dollars, twenty-five cents: Provided, That upon each ,;'1;:,$_':·,?`""°° and every assignment or transfer of a mortgage, lease, or policy of insurance, or the renewal or continuance of any agreement, contract, or charter, by letter or otherwise, a stamp duty shall be required and paid at the same rate as that imposed on the original instrument. rouge tickets to Passage ticket, by any vessel from a port in the United States to a "'°*‘" P"'"` foreign port, if costing not exceeding thirty dollars, one dollar. · Costing more than thirty and not exceeding sixty dollars, three dollars. Costing more than sixty dollars, five dollars. Pvnrcvf •¤¤¤~¤r- Power of attorney or proxy for voting at any election for officers of {{..°2Ki°.°§¤2Z..°"’°° an incorporated company or association, except religious, charitable, or societies, or public cemeteries, ten cents. -m sen, um. ew. Power of attorney to sell and convey real estate, or to rent or lease '°“1°°‘“°°·""°k*°"“ the same, to receive or collect rent,to sell or transfer any stock, bonds, scrip, or for the collection of any dividends or interest thereon, or to perform any and all other acts not hereinbefore specified, twenty-five mam. cents: Provided, That no stamps shall be required upon any papers ,,,:";,°;,,{’f, neeessuyto be used for the collection of claims from the United States xexemnt f¤·•·¤ for pensions, back pay, bounty, or for property lost in the military or ‘ nav service. — . P¤·*·•=· Protest: Upon the protest of every note, bill of exchange, acceptance, check or draft, or any marine protest, whether protested by a notary public or by any other officer who may be authorized by the law of any tate or States to make such protest, twenty-five cents. I W¤¤*¤°¤¤°*°°°*P”· iWarehouse receipt for any goods, merchandise, or property of any - kind held on storage in any public or private warehouse or yard, except receipts for agricultural products deposited by the actual grower thereof mgm ax in the regular course of trade for sale, twenty-nve cents : Provided, That cmeunersrorkrinsh the stamp duties imposed by the foregoing schedule on manifests, bills N"""'*"‘°"*°""’°"" of lading, and passage tickets shall not apply to steamboats or other vessels plying between ports of the United States and ports in British B§{,{¤·¤¤·>¤- 2··>•=· v- North America. scusuuis n. SCHEDULE B. M<¤¤¤i¤¤¤ vwvvia Medicinal proprietary articles and preparations: For and u n ever · °_?Q}°.’_ ,°1,,,'m c3_ packet, box, bottle, pot, or phial, or other inclosure, containiugligi y pill;
- 2- powders, tinctures, troches or lozenges, sirups, cordials, bitters, anodynes, tonics. plasters, liniments, salves, ointments, pastes, drops,
waters, (except natural spring waters and carbonated natural spring waters), essences, spirits, oils, and all medicinal preparations or compositions whatsoever, made and sold, or removed for sale, by any person or persons whatever, wherein the person making or preparing the same has or claims to have any private formula, secret, or occult art for the making or preparing the same, or has or claims to have any exclusive right or title to the making or preparing the same, or which are prepared, uttered, vended, or exposed for sale under any letters patent, or trade-mark, or which, if prepared by any formula, published or unpublished, are held out or recommended to the public by the makers, venders, or proprietors thereof as proprietary medicines, or medicin al proprietary articles or preparations, or as remedies or specifics for any disease, diseases, or aiieetion whatever affecting the human or animal H`;->¤g;¤§“¤;<;: ¤¤¤¤· body, as follows: Where such packet, box, bottle, pot, phial, or other "inclosure, with its contents, shall not exceed, at the retail price or value, the sum of five cents, one-eighth of one cent. -m.¤e¤¤. Where such packet, box, bottle, pot, phial, or other inclosure, with its contents. shall exceed the retail price or value of five cents and shall npt exceenh at the retail price or value, the sum of ten cents, two-eighths o one cen .
