... provided for by the Most Hououriible bringing into operation, retro• spectively, Stamp Act, which, among other benefits, will catch some of the Kites then flying. I consider my duty to the Country for the present is now done, by laying before you the above ...

... /A ttire, it is in the place of a discerning public to stamp such an one as a despicable partizan, or who for ulterior reasons wilfully resorts to a ruppressio eeri, and thee ', we enies guilty of a suygestio falsi. . With these prelimivary remarks I ...

... why Stamp duties are obviously objeritionable. Naturally, merchants object to them at first until they became accustomed to their incidence; but they are really most convenient and very easily collected. The only duties in Singapore are Stamp duties ...

... Tax of 3d. in the 2 .0 5,500 (b.) Additional Advaloretn duty of 4 per cent 11,000 (e.) Duty of 4 shilling, per hhd. on Sugar 10.000 (d) Duty of 1 shilling per pun, on molasses 1.600 (~) Stamp Duty 5,000 Total . . £33,000 The Committee desire ...

... shipping till be could have afforded to do justice. The abolition of the soap duty is the third great characteristic of the Gladstone Budget. This is a remission long-advocated—long delayed. It is a duty totally indefensible in an age of Sanitary Reform, and ...

... the earliest opportunity, offered us of apprizing our contemporaries of the sister colonies who take an interest in the abolition of the penny Postage on inter-Colonial newspapers, but more especially Trinidad, with whose Governor, Mr. Walker, the proposition ...

... follows in its issue of the nth ultimo, anent the now defunct Stamp Duty Bill; •• The Government introduced another Stamp Duty Bill, which appears to be on similar lines with the Grenada stamp Ordinance. In Barbados opinions differ loth es ...

... Minute from the Governor on the proposed Stamp Duties Act was read and laid on the table. His Excellency's reasons for the introduction of the Stamp Tax may be briefly eummarized as follows :—(a) To enable the abolition of Harbour dues ; (b) To meet necessary ...

... maiks on the Stamp Duty Bill, at the meeting at the Commercial Hall on the 28th ultimo. What Mr. Trimt Mr. Granition is reported to hare said, did say. Mr. Grannum then He expressed himself referred to the Bill un- in favour of a Stamp Act, der consideration ...

... the opening !Te eple we find the suggestions of the Committee take the form of a stamp, legacy and succession duty ' ou the model of the English ; t ete, the latter duty, as its name implies,' having refererce to succession to orother esi a teas stin ...

... which the abolition of Excise Duty on paper is alone tenable, is, that we have swept away almost all the Customs' Duties, and, in principle, the abolition of all Excise Duties ought to precede the remi , sion of Custom's ...

... Secretary's Office ; (4) The ion of the Gilchrist, the Barbados, the Island scholarships ; (5) The ititroiductio.: of a Stamp Duty Act ; (6) A re arrangement the (Ares iii the Customs Dapai ; and (7) That the Go• vernment devise some other scheme for ...