946 FIFTYFSIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. ll. Ch. 806. 1901. e,g""m"“'°"f*"°m“· "Eight. Certificate of profits, or any certificate or memorandum Showing an interest in the propergy or accumulations of aniy association, company, or corporation, an on all transfers thereo , on each ` one hundred dollars of face value or fraction thereof, two cents. °"“‘“‘°°· "Nine.· Contract: Broker’s note, or memorandum of sale of any goods or merchandise, stocks, bonds, exchange, notes of hand, real estate, or property of any kind or description issued by brokers, or peipsons acting as such, fog each note or memorandum of sale, not ot erwise provided for in t is Act ten cents. "°¤"°>'¤¤°€· "Ten. Con veyance: Deed, instrument, or writing, whereby any lands, tenements, or other realty shall be sold,_ granted, assigne , transferred, or otherwise conveyed to or vested IH the purchaser or purchasers, or any other person or`persons, by his, her, or their direction, when the consideration or value exceeds twenty-Eve hundred dollars and does not exceed three thousand dollars, twenty-five cents, and for each additional five hundred dollars or fractional part thereof in excess of three thousand dollars twenty-five cents. cu§{j$Qhg{,Sg°°dS at "Eleven. Entry of any goods, wares, or merchandise at any customhouse, either for consumption or warehousing, not exceeding one hundred dollars in value, twenty-five cents. Exceeding one hundred dollars and not exceeding five hundred dollars in va ue, fifty cents. Exceeding five hundred dollars in value one dollar. ··“’“hdm“'al "Twelve. Entry for the withdrawal ’of any goods or merchandise from customs bonded warehouse fifty cents. Yemgetickm- “Thirteen. Passage tickets :· Ticket, order, contract, or certificate for passage by any vessel from any port in the United States to a foreign port, costing fifty dollars, fifty cents; and for each fifty dollars or any part thereof in addition thereto fifty cents." ‘Yi¤<>¤- Sec. 9. That Schedule B of said Act lis hereby amended so as to read lO1`30'p`462` as follows: " SCHEDULE ‘B. " Sparkling or other wines, when bottled for sale, upon each bottle containing one pint or less, one cent. Upon each bottle containing more than one pint two cents." · ‘ .- Sec. 10. That sedtion twenty-nine of said Act is hereby amended by m¥{,‘§§g°§‘§’s§§‘§cSd‘§g adding at the end_of said section the following: “Pr0mde0Z, That p<=r¤¤¤¤1pr¤r>¤r¤‘- nothing in this section shall be construed to apply to bequests or lega- V°l` 30’ p` 46* cies for uses of a religious, literary, charitable, or educational character, or for the encouragement of art, or to legacies or bequests to societies for the prevention of c°i·uelty to children, including all bequests or . legacies of such character on which the tax imposed had not been paid or collectedon the first day of March, nineteen hundred and one: And providedfurt/ter, That the provisions of this Act and of the Act hereby amended shall not be held to apply to any estate where the testator or intestate died before June thirteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety- eight,” so that said section as amended shall read as follows: MLEGACIES AND DISTRIBUTIVE SHARES OF PERSONAL PROPERTY. P€¤¤*>P=*l www **0* “Sec. 29. That any person or persons having in charge or trust as uceeding $25’000' administrators, executors, or trustees, any legacies or distributive shares arising from personal property, where the whole amount of such ersonal property as aforesaid shall exceed the sum of ten thousand gollars in actual value, passing, after the passage of this Act,_from any person possessed of such property, either by will or by the intestate laws of any State or Territory, or any personal property or interest therein, transferred by deed, grant, bargain, sale, or gift, made or intended to take effect in possession or enjoyment after the death of the