... that the stamps ott settlements and I should be 'levied, not at a fixed suim, but ad valorerni, rising you -with, the amount of the property, thus making up for the who difficeiney caused- by the abolition or the reduction of that hut i;other stamp, and' ...

... Chillianwalla, deserves to be chronicled in your columns. He said:- Colonel Jack, and my brother soldiers of the 13th- The duty which has unexpectedly devolved on me this day affords me the most sincere and heartfelt pleasure. On looking at the record ...

... or reduction of duties. Since Jan. 5, of last year, there have been two such events. On February 1, the last ?? duties on corn, which had eventually brought rather more tevenue than had been anticipated,, gave place to a nominal duty. On July 5 the revenue ...

... admirable address ) in the course of which he pledged himself to use his best exertion during the ensuing session to secure the abolition. of the chum ch nuisance. COMFORT FOR THE PROTECTIONISTS.—At a meeting of the Essex Protection Society held in Chelmsford ...

... finally expired—a small and almost nominal duty being substituted for the infamous sliding scale that so injuriously affected the price of the staff of life, while the much required modification of duties on sugar, the corn of the tropics, came ...

... lington. . ARMS Crests, Coronets, or Initials, stamped on Note Paper and Envelopes, in Gold, Silver, and Coleurs, at lower prices and better executed than at any other house Eodrigue.* self-sealing Envelopes, stamped with any initial Is per -00,98. per 1,000; ...

... leaders are exhorted to be up and doing. Law reform is imperatively required, and financial reform-the set- tlement of the stamp duties, and the repeal of the taxes on knowledge. But it is vain to hope, says the reviewer, of fiscal imports being efficiently ...

... of those who die intestate; a registry of property, with other arrangements for its cheap and easy transfer ; an ad valorem duty on settlements; the greatest possible multiplication of freeholders; compensation to all existing tenants for any improvements ...

... staple article of our home manufacture roundly laid to the charge the operations of the Excise duty on paper, and outcry is at once raised for the entire abolition of the impost. To certain extent the charge against this tax may true ; —but those who argue ...

... ildOl. or 40t01, with him, YOU ?? have to pay an samount fc r i stamp equal to that for the settleceent of this vast amosin t of landed property (bear, hear). eow, I propose that these stamps upun sales and transfers should be abolished, or niade of a nominal ...

... facilitated, Iby the abolition of the most odious of taxes. We believe that SirCiiAilmS WYool computed the absolute loss of revenue, by the cessation of the corn duties, during the current financial year, at about X8ocQo0o. The amount of the duty remitted to the ...

... The measures which he enumerated included abolition of primogeniture for nndevised property, and restrictions on its devise to lives not in being, registry of property, reduction of the enormous charges for stamps for sale and purchase of land, security ...