| United States. Supreme Court, John Chandler Bancroft Davis, Henry Putzel, Henry C. Lind, Frank D. Wagner - Courts - 1917 - 674 pages
...levied, collected and paid throughout the United Slates, the several stamp duties following, to wit: For every skin or piece of vellum, or parchment, or sheet or piece of paper upon which shall bo written or printed any or either of the instruments or writings following, to wit:... | |
| Woodrow Wilson - United States - 1917 - 386 pages
...islands belonging thereto, and the Bermuda and Bahama islands, a stamp duty of five shillings. 22. For every skin or piece of vellum or parchment, or sheet or piece of paper, on which shall be engrossed, written, or printed any such probate, letters of administration or of... | |
| Albert William Mann - Boston (Mass.) - 1917 - 610 pages
...Ministers and Parliament having decided to tax America, the Stamp Act was to be the test. It provided that every skin or piece of vellum, or parchment, or sheet, or piece of paper used for legal purposes, such as bills, bonds, notes, leases, policies of insurance, marriage licenses,... | |
| William MacDonald - Charters - 1921 - 686 pages
...America which now are, or hereafter may be, under the dominion of his Majesty, his heirs and successors, For every skin or piece of vellum or parchment, or sheet or piece of paper, on which shall be ingrossed, written or printed, any declaration, plea, replication, rejoinder, demurrer,... | |
| New Jersey Historical Society - New Jersey - 1924 - 498 pages
...shall cite it, and then set forth the items of the bill calling for a tax, and the amount of such tax. "For every skin or piece of vellum or parchment, or sheet or piece of paper, on which shall be engraved, written or printed :" 1. Any declaration (complaint), plea (answer), replication,... | |
| George Patterson Donehoo - Pennsylvania - 1926 - 562 pages
...any court of law within the British colonies and plantations in America, a stamp of three pence. 2. For every skin or piece of vellum or parchment, or sheet or piece of paper, on which shall be engrossed, written, or printed any special bail, and appearance upon such bail in... | |
| Felix Flügel - United States - 1927 - 216 pages
...pleading, in any admiralty court within the said colonies and plantations, a stamp duty of one shilling. For every skin or piece of vellum or parchment, or sheet or piece of paper, on which any copy of any such monition, libel, claim, answer, allegation, information, letter of request,... | |
| William MacDonald - United States - 1926 - 742 pages
...America which now are, or hereafter may be, under the dominion of his Majesty, his heirs and successors, For every skin or piece of vellum or parchment, or sheet or piece of paper, on which shall be ingrossed, written or printed, any declaration, plea, replication, rejoinder, demurrer,... | |
| United States - 1924 - 810 pages
...¿ostea, in any court within the said colonies and plantations, a stamp duty of four shillings. 13. For every skin or piece of vellum or parchment, or sheet or piece of paper, on which shall be engrossed, written, or printed, any affidavit, common bail, or appearance, interrogatory,... | |
| Robert R. Bell - History - 1992 - 340 pages
...the French and Indian Wars. The Stamp Act, which was one section of the Sugar Act, required stamps on "every skin or piece of vellum or parchment, or sheet or piece of paper" issuing from any court. That included courts exercising "ecclesiastical jurisdiction within the said... | |
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