Show i MUST STAMP DEEDS Commissioner Internal Revenue Answers An-swers Important Query Washington April 13The Commissioner Commis-sioner of Internal Revenue has received q a number of Inquiries from registers of deeds clerks of courts and others ask Jut whether they would be Justified in I rccordlng deedtf etc which arc sent to them unstamped They represent I that deeds I are often received from the parties who cannot conveniently coOenlent pro i curo stamps asking that they be i auIlcd < by the recorder The Commissioner answers In the i negative and in his reply slates that the grantor or person who makes or Jesues the Instrument should affix and 1 fx cancel the stamp I he omits to do so Ii ho incurs a penalty of f not more than 1 5100 If however the omission Is thel in advertent he may present the instru I trl ment to the collector within colector a year wihin n i from the date of issue pay the stamp r tax and present the Instrument for I post stampjng p Tho Commissioner advises that when t an unstamped instrument for record f ho received It he returned to br stamped charging for postage and Him occupied in thc correspondence made 4 aicccssary by the omission of the j stamp |