... customs duty on tea of 15 florins per 100 lb. I need not say that this proposal, contrary as it is to the principles of free trade, meets with very strong opposition. The result naturally is that people are afraid that the abolition of the stamp-duly will ...

... silks, timber, dried fruits, and hope, and with abolitions of duty on butter, cheese, tallow, will give a remission of indirect taxation to the amount of more than two millions sterling. Then the paper duty is amputated with a bold sweep, being a saerifiee ...

... 18,100,000 Stamps, 7,650,000 Land and Assessed Taxes, 3,200,000 Income-tax, 6,100,000 Post-Office, 3,200,000 Crown Lands, 270,000 Miscellaneous, 1,300,000 £63,120,000 Additional duty on Irish spirits, Penny stamp-duty on cheques, ...

... collection of the paper duty, are quite as numerous as those which for many years it was engaged in exposing, as connected with the advertisement duty and the newspaper stamp. Nothing will tend so much to the abolition of the paper duty, as ...

... the proxy. paper stamp. from Gd to Id; to reduce the stamp of letters of attorney for receiving dividends; to legalise ninrine insurances; to grant oce..sional licenses to beer-sellers and refreshment houses. In regard to the sugar duties, he proplses to ...

... exercised in regard to expenses incurred for public works. He likewise advocated the suppression of the octrois, and the abolition of stamp-duty upon newspapers,asul of the impost upon salt. In conclusion, he proposed the introduction of the Income-tax. M. Gonin ...

... that was the stamp duties. There were obstructions in business relative to stamps and, therefore, his right hon. friend, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, would take the earliest opportunity he could in bringing on that subject. STAMP DUTIES ...

... To-morrow he would name the day. TRH STAMP. Sir H. asked whether newspsper proprietors who may have in their poseemiun stamped sheets on the day when the new regulation fur the abolition of the impressed stamps take effect, will be allowed to use them ...

... bear.) After some observations from several members, the bill was read a second time. STAMP-DCTE ON DRAFTS BILL. On the motion for the second reading of the Stamp. duty on Drafts Bill, a debate ensiled, but the bill was read a second time without a division ...

... duty was therefore carried unanimously; but after that the Chartists carried a resolution, praying farther for the abolition of what are commonly called the taxes on knowledge, such as the penny newspaper stamp and the advertisement duty. I call these ...

... Knowledge has waited on the Chancellor of the Exchequer to request the reduction or the abolition of the paper duty This is a natural sequel to the abolition of a compulsory stamp upon newspapers, and would be a very great benefit to the press. The Chancellor ...

... sent by post. Moreover, the Austrian had to submit to a stamp duty, i abolished n Hungary, but not in the remainder of the empire, though many efforts have been made •to obtain it. total abolition; and this adds nut only to the cost of the papers, but ...