Are These Revenues? Help With ID Please

Found a court document that is loaded with the stamps shown in the photos.
Are they classified as "revenues?"
Any assistance you can provide is greatly appreciated, as always!

Thanks,

Dave

Yes. These are documentary revenues that are Scott listed. The $3 second issue stamp is Scott R125 (and has a 2012 catalog value of $45; current catalog may vary). Nice find - is it possible to see the whole document?

Wow, what does one do with these? They're stuck all together it seems. Is the document more valuable untouched?

Leave them on the document, such multiple uses are not all that common. It was also illegal to overlap stamps, but such things did happen fairly regularly. Be nice to see the whole document and know what was being taxed. A mortgage or deed seems most likely, but it might be something else as well.

Pictures of whole document. First two are from the court of the clerk, descriptive in nature, describing the deed of trust the rest of the document is (I think). White page was first, followed by the brown-ish page (both small, both with clear symbol/stamp of the "District Court of Marion County" Texas.
Then the long what appears to be one sheet of paper with the actual deed, front and back photos.

Photos aren't great, but I was trying to capture as much of the document as possible. I hope the photos make sense.

Can't wait to hear your thoughts on this.

Dave

That`s a lot of tax!

Unless I miscounted, it adds up,to $100.

Great document, $3 second issue and $1 third issue, very possibly the largest quantity known of each on document. This should definitely be left as it is.

Yeah, that is a visually spectactular document! I'm jealous.

Is that a will? Was tax figured on value of estate? Must have been one rich guy.

Nice find.

Don

Revenue folks,
If the law was that you could not overlap stamps, was the expectation that they be adhered over the writing on a document? The above document shows they tried to use the document white space to place the required stamps. I assume that adding another page just to hold the taxation stamps was not a good solution?
Was every office expected to carry the full range of denominations so they could use the least amount of stamps on a document? (Even if they couldn't supply them on time?)
Don

Stamps were applied by the taxpayer or a clerk in the office of whoever created the document not by a revenue office, so they would have used whatever they had. This document was created in Marion County, Texas which is extreme east Texas near Shreveport, LA, a fairly small town in 1872. They probably had little use for larger stamp values there, which would have been ordered from a revenue office (probably New Orleans) and sold by some local merchant. The stamps were required "to be on the instrument", so they used whatever space they had and sometimes overlapping was the result.

There is info available online regarding H C Hynson. Aside from him serving with the Confederate "Tenth Texas Field Artillery" in the war of "Northern Aggression", you can also find he was apparently involved in some way in production of iron and steel in the region. Maybe your document has some clues to the latter.