... STAMP DUTIES. Mr. D.BROWN wished to know from his Noble Friend, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether it was his intention that the provisions of the new Stamp Act, by which the duty on advertisements consisting of ten lines was to be reduced to one ...

... NEWSPAPER STAMP DUTY. Mr. HUME said he had a petition to present, signed by nearly all the printers in London,against the tax on newspapers. The petitioners thought that if the tax were abolished the art of printing, which was now only in its infancy ...

... NEWSPAPER STAMP DUTIES. We extract the following judicious and forcible observations relative to the question of the Newspaper Stamp Duties, from an able pamphlet on the subject, by Mr. C. 'Westmacott As a proprietor of the London stamped ...

... STAMP DUTIES BILL. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER moved the order of the day for the further consideration of the report on the Stamp Duties Bill. Mr. WAKLEY said that the impression on the minds of E e veral Hon. Members was, that the clause relating ...

... anxiety the excitement which has previled in favoar of a total abolition of the stamp duty on newspapers. 2. That while this meeting will not presume to object to any reduction in the stamp duty, it is of opinion that the whole amount ...

... there is an average of 600 advertisements, and that the duty on them amounted to 451, and the duty on the Paper (supposing 10,000 impressions to be sold) was 11/—thus making altogether 56/ duty, which found its way into the public Treasury—(hear, hear) ...

... were to propose the total abolition of the stamp duty he could carry such a measure through the present House of Commons? Mr. Hume had answered in the negative. Mr. explained. He had said the total abolition of the stamp ...

... STAMPS . ON NEWSPAPERS The CHANCELLOR of the EiarIEZRIER moved for leave to bring in a Bill to repeal so much of the 55th of Geo. 111., cap. 80, as prohibits the Commissioners of Stamps from issuing stamps to printers outlawed or convicted of seditious ...

... POST-HORSE DUTIES. Sir E. KNATCHBULL presented a petition from stage• coach proprietors in the county of Kent for the abolition of the post-horse duty; and a petition from Vv'almer for an amendment of the Boundaries Bill. Mr. CHALMERS presented several ...

... STAMPING OF COUNTRY NOTES. Mr. CALCRAFT rnoved that there be laid before the House a copy of the Order sent to the Stamp-office, prohibiting the further stamping of Country Bank Notes, under the value of 51. and the date thereof. The CHANCELLOR of the ...

... himself; but nothing should prevent him from doing his duty, and were the reproaches even tenfold great e r, he would rather endure them than purchase a base indemnity from censure by :compromising that duty. A distinct pledge was given by Parliament, and unless ...

... This was an additional reason for taking off the import duty, because the British manufacturer not only had to contend with that duty but the duty on the export of .the article. With respect to the duty of a halfpenny a pound the inferior wool, that was daily ...