... twomo. The -stamp duty then brought under review. This charge, as our ireadery arc aware, presses heavily on the cheap daily aewspapers which have growl, up of late years. Being 100 per cent. upon thOr prig, it is, in fivd, almost prohibitory on their ...

... both in reference to Excise and Stamps. He also proposed to redoes hawkers licenses from L 4 to £2; to compel tobacconists, who keep open for smoking, to take out licenses similar to wins houses; and to reduce the stamp duty on agreements for letting furnished ...

... o'clock. Numerous petitions having been promoted for and again t the abolition of Church-rates, sir J. TBILLAW NICY moved that the House go into committee upon the Church-rates Abolition BilL After some remarks from Mr. PAM in oppositioii to the bill, 3lr ...

... nearly all been established since the removal of the penny stamp. The abolition of the paper duty will be a greater relief, in some respects, than the repeal of the stamp and advertisement duty. Various vexatious restrictions will be done ...

... first, how doee.the fact that the probate duty takes no cognisance of settled property preclude it from being so extended as to take cognisance thereof 1 Of course the words probate duty mean the stamp duty paid on proving a will. But one does not care ...

... in the imposition of public burtheus, can the duty on insurance be defended ; while there are other reasons for arguing for the repeal, or at least the diminution, of the impost. It is especially the duty of the Government to encourage habits of forethought ...

... of £302,008, which may be partly explained by the higher duty on sugar levied during a portion of the corresponding quarter last year. Excise has augmented in the quarter by £196,000. In Stamps, Taxes, and Income-tax, a diminution for the year was reckoned ...

... to the impose tatios of the legacy sod sameion duties on it. meria Theme merits involved not only the qftestioct of expediency but ale of time, and he was iolonsed Nat the augments. ef these duties would be strongly objected to on both sides ef the ...

... and in fee simple, with no wet to persons willing to redeem and cultivate the ground, with no attendant expenses save the stamps necessary to the title-deeds, and free of tithes for five years. Moreover the State will furnish at the outset seed of the ...

... the SHILLING VOLUME LIB - HART Is mojected with the view of giving to the reading public the fan benefit of the abolition of the Paper Duty. ThOrigin al Works of Contemporary Writers will be set sp in ne type, clearly printed on good paper, easy to read ...

... of the probate, legacy, and eucceasion duties. He proposed to do away with the distinctions in the probate duty on the property of testate and intestate and to oharge a scale on the prinolple of a 1 per cent duty, rising in intervals of 1150 sip to R5OO ...

... and which are to be wholly remitted. Turning next to the Stamp Duties, Mr. Lowe recommended the abolition of the prognosis.e duty of 10s. per 1080: words on all deeds, and the redaction of the duties on leases and copyhold tired, , which ...