Stamp Act: Roman Numeral List Summary

The Second Half Irons Out What We're Saying, And Now Has Roman Numerals For No Reason.

• This is a reference to the final bit of Section 1 where the law mentions how much masters get paid.
• If a master's getting money, his apprentice should too. All that stuff that gets charged in the Stamp Act? It can be insured. Yay, we guess?
• Anything that might normally be taxed by the Stamp Act counts as a charter party so long as it's on a freighter.
• Sometimes almanacks were made out of pamphlets, but this would drive the cost under the tax way up.
• Under the law, these pamphlets were to be taxed as finished almanacks. And there was much rejoicing.
• Paychecks as we think of them didn't exist, but documents like them sure did. They're not to be taxed under the Stamp Act.
• Soldiers or sailors who died in the line of duty won't be taxed on their wills. That's kind of the least you could do for them.
• Good news. Documents in languages other than English won't be taxed more. We figured that would be assumed, but guess not.
• The Stamp Act now supercedes any other deals made with any Native American tribe or nation.
• Educational and religious texts are excepted from the tax. That's nice, right?
• Anytime Parliament pays you, including a bounty (you're welcome, Boba Fett), isn't taxed under the Stamp Act.
• Commissioners are going to manage the stamps and have the power to hire officers to work under them, to use the stamps, and to maintain them in good working order.
• Commissioners appoint officers to courts to make sure the act is being enforced, and gives the proper oath of office for these folks.
• Quakers can make an affirmation rather than an oath.
• We need something to tax. Make sure the colonies have regular shipments of paper, vellum, etc.
• If you sell black market paper that hasn't been stamped, you're getting fined ten pounds.
• Even evidence in court cases needs to be stamped.
• Duties can be paid on behalf of others, and the stamps you get are just as valid as any other.
• Forging a payment certificate is punishable by death. Yeah, that's right: death.
• Forging a stamp is punishable by death. Yeah, that's still right: death.
• Any equipment used to forge stuff, used as evidence in the crime, will be destroyed afterwards.
• Officers of the court attempting to move any paper without proper stamps get to be slapped with a twenty-pound fine.
• Councilors or attorneys who move paper without proper stamps get a fifty pound fine.
• Try to alter any stamped documents to get out of paying the tax? Fifty pound fine.
• Put the cost of the tax as close to the stamp as possible. If not: five pound fine.
• Officers of the court better keep records of the writs they issue that need a stamp. Otherwise, you get a ten pound fine.
• Pamphlets need to be taxed right. If you don't: ten pound fine.
• Newspapers and pamphlets better have the real names of the printers on them. If not, twenty pound fine.
• An officer can't sell stamped paper to anyone for use as a pamphlet or newspaper without being paid in advance for any ads that go on them.
• If you're worried about printing too many newspapers (and thereby paying too much stamp tax), don't worry. Unsold papers can be canceled on your tax bill.
• Same with unsold almanacks.
• Multi-page almanacks only need to be stamped on one page.
• Selling unstamped newspapers and almanacks without stamps? Fined forty shillings.
• Keep detailed records of what everyone is getting paid, or you owe double that.
• And if you forget to keep those records, that payment never happened.
• If the person doesn't pay double within a year, they get a warning, and then they can be sued.
• Any new contracts for clerks or apprentices have to have a line inserted that states that a stamped receipt has to be gotten within three months. No receipt? You're fined ten pounds.
• Sell cards or dice without a stamp? Ten pound fine.
• Buy or sell an unstamped cover or label for cards? Twenty pound fine.
• Informers will get immunity for informing, but they'll have to testify.
• Put cards in an improperly stamped container? Twenty pound fine.
• Liquor shipments better have accurate manifests, or you're looking at a fifty pound fine.
• Liquor licenses in the colonies last for one year.
• If someone with a liquor license dies, someone else in the house can still sell liquor for the rest of the year the license lasts.
• Sell liquor without a license? Twenty pound fine.
• If you sell liquor in a poor house, it's considered a bar and it needs a liquor license.
• If there's not a provision for granting liquor licenses, there is now. The governor or commander in chief of each individual colony is in charge of that.
• Chief distributor in any colony gets paid at a rate of four pounds per hundred.
• Clerks and officers can ask to inspect books to make sure the tax is being paid. Refusal means, guess what, a fine of twenty pounds.
• The high treasurer of Great Britain or the commissioners of the treasury, set the prices for stamped goods once a year. Sell for higher prices, and you're fined twenty pounds.
• Collectors of the stamp tax better keep good records and present them to the bosses on demand. Otherwise they're getting fined triple of whatever they messed up or embezzled.
• All audits are on the 10th of October and the 5th of January.
• Any refusal to pay those tripled sums means now you double that triple.
• Failure to keep accurate records and you're fined one hundred pounds.
• Any money collected from the Stamp Act has to be kept separately and used to either pay for the Seven Years War or redcoats to protect the colonies.
• Any expenses from the Stamp Act get paid from the Sinking Fund.
• Any powers given to commissioners about the money collected can be handled by any three of them.
• Any offense against the Stamp Act is tried without a jury.
• Any cash collected for the Stamp Act has to be in British currency. None of this colony Monopoly money.
• Fines are divided into three parts. One part goes to the king, one to the colony, and one to the informer.
• Offenses against the act are tried in local court. Just no jury.
• Leaders in the colonies have to take an oath to uphold the Stamp Act.
• All colonial legal documents have to be stamped in the colonies.
• If a prosecuting party leaves a case against a violator of the Stamp Act, the defendant gets triple the costs. That's normal.