... Committees the Corps Legislatif. With reference to the Press, the proposed changes would consist in the lowering of the Stamp Duty, the abolition of the necessity for Government authorisation ; and, cases of offences against the Press laws, the substitution of ...

... ABOLITION OF THE PAPER AND NEWSPAPER STAMP DUTIFS. All connected with the press will rejoice in the abolition of the paper duty, as relieving the raw material—the blank sheet of all literary ope- rations—from a tax which is less considerable in amount ...

... ABOLITION OP THE NEWSPAPER STAMP. The following resolutions with reference to newspaper stamps, moved by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, were agreed That it is expedient to repeal the exemption of newspapers from postage duty, and to charge on newspapers ...

... Abolition of the Newspaper Stamp, the Advertisement and the Paper Duties.—lt is said, and we understand with some truth, that the Chancellor of the Exchequer has at length been convinced, by the powerful arguments and convincing statistical returns of ...

... negatived without division, and the resolution proposed the Lord Advocate was agreed to. STAMP DUTIES. The Stamp Duties resolutions (the Advertisement Duty and the stamp on newspaper supplements excepted) were ...

... It is rumoured that Mr Gladstone intends to propose the abolition of the Inhabited House Duty. Property the value of £16,000 been destroyed by the underground fire South Shields. A house and garden in a fashionable quarter of Paris were sold the other ...

... g notour bankruptcy is prescribed, and the procedure in cessio the instance of a creditor set forth, but no Court fee, stamp duties, or Government payments are exigible. In the case of bankruptcy under the Act 1856, the Sheriff may grant warrant to take ...

... PROPOSED ABOLITION OF PETTY CUSTOMS. POSITION OF PERTH COUNCIL. At the monthly meeting of Perth Town Council yesterdsy—Lord Provost Dewar presiding—a communication was read from the Town Clerk of Inverness with regard to the Petty Customs Abolition Bill, ...

... PUBLIC NOTICES. SSOCIATION FOR THE ABOLITION OR REDUCTION OF THE DUTY ON FIRE INSURANCES. PATRONS. The t Hon, Lord STANLEY, M.P. Sir James Bart., M.P. Sir VILLIERS SHELLEY, Bart., THOMAS SLINesBY DuNComBE, Esq., M.P. GEORGE HADFIELD, -» M JoHN ARTHUR ...

... notour bankruptcy is prescribed, and the procedure in cessio at the instance of a creditor set forth, but no Court fee, stamp duties, or Government payments are exigible. In the case of bankruptcy under the Act of 1856, the Sheriff may grant warrant to ...

... the house divided, when the motion was negatived to 24. Mr. UEADLAM moved, that in the opinion of the house the present stamp duty imposed receipts should abolished. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER opposed the resoluiiou. considered that of all the lax ...

... ABOLITION OF CHURCH RATES. The adjourned debate upon the third reading of the Church Rates Abolition Bill resumed by Sir J. TRELAWNY, who said the supporters of the bill were opposed to all compromise, because they were convinced that no settlement of ...