... Government. The abolition of the duty on paper, is, however, not a class movement. There is not a person in the country, from the highest to the humblest, whom it does not affect more or less. The tax on light was tax on health; the duty on paper is tax ...

... uniform rate of duty or the old graduated scale, but preserving a sort of ad valorem duty, has reduced the range of difference in the duties so as to come nearer to uniformity without abandoning the graduated scale. The difference in duty, according to ...

... withdrawn. THE IRISH CHURCH BILL. The report upon the Irish Church (Stamp) Duties was brought and agreed to. The Irish Church Bill was recommitted, and a clause inserted imposing a stamp duty on any order of the Commissioners of Church Temporalities in Ireland ...

... almost to nothing, and it would be stamp* by foreign production. He was net opposed free trade, bat if the people of Franco and countries wouia not take the matter ink consideration, it was time countervailing duty was put on to protect British workmen ...

... which jrielded £1,902,787, all other items (except house duty) showing decreases. Tho decrease of £1,004,750 in itamps is stated have been chiefly duo to the decline tho receipt of and succession duties, compared with the very large receipt 1592-3. Tho Excise ...

... gives tinder the beading Newspapers and Monopolies a readable chapt•r ott the effect of the reduction and the abolition of the stamp duty upon newspapers of the day. Dr. Hedderwick says; --The days of vast circulations in the newspaper press had not ...

... 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 ...

... pattern post free for twenty stamps; the newest out-door Jacket, twenty-four stamps; a stylish Zouave dll to sixteen stamps ; the fashionable Garibaldi, fourteen stamps ; single sleeve, ten stamps : two ditto for eighteen ...

... obvious that the reduction in the stamp duties on deeds and the abolition of game certificates must concern the country more than dwellers in towns, while the benefit arising from the abrogation of the penny stamp newspapers will exclusively enjoyed ...

... their lordships’ amendments were got through, and the Bill passed through this stage. MISCELLANEOUS. The Stamp Duties (Recommitted) Bill, the Stamp Duties (Management) Bill, and the Inland Revenue Acts Repeal Bill passed through committee. The British Columbia ...

... summoned, the Royal assent was given in the usual form to the following Bills Consolidated Fund (Appropriation). Stamp Duties, Stamp Duties Management, Inland Revenue Acts Repeal. Greenwich Hospital, Pensions Commutation Act (18C'.i) Amendment, of Allegiance ...

... the removal of many of those burdens which are comprehensively described as taxes on knowledge. The abolition of the newspaper stamp, the advertisement duty, and the excise on paper were his latest achievements, and were recognised by testimonial which was ...