... and the sugar duties were reduced one-half; several small trade licenses were repealed; the impressed newspaper stamp was abolished and the postage on newspapers reduced to a halfpenny; a number of stamp duties were reduced, and the stamp ...

... Income-tax and succession duty were to render possible. The excise duty on soap was repealed; several stamp duties were reduced, among them those on receipts for which was substituted the now familiar penny receipt stamp; the ...

... forth the devotion of Liberal working men was the fight for the liberty of the Press. During the agitation for the abolition of the stamp duty, hundreds of April 8, 18761 working men volunteered to sell unstampod papers in defiance of a bad law, and scores ...

... the only matter where it placed societies in a position less advantageous than they held before was the abolition of the exemption from stamp duties granted to friendly societies, the Government considering exemptions generally undesirable in the case ...