... 1760, arid both tea and sugar might now be made luxuries of the rich if duties enough were imposed upon them. The wine duties were duties of protection, differential, not revenue duties. Mr. Glad• steno then proaeeded to develope a supplementary measure of ...

... Abolition of the snap-tmx t:.126,000 beau's. Reduction of the duty on lite assurance frost be. tid. per cent. to ed. per cent. 29,000 Redact of receipt stamps Irmo the present scale, ranging Irmo 3d, to 100. to • udiforre rate of Id. Reduction of duty ...

... l'etitions. Signatures. For abolition Against abolition A careful analysis of those petitions Les been made. The following will show tlw sources from whielt those in favour of abolition have come : From Matepayen and Inhabitants 1,738 Protestant Dissentinr ...

... the abolition of those lows. Mr. t.ki.,tun, the secretary, read letters from Profeescr t.t.er/y, Mr. IL Compton, and Mr. Frederic Harr :sin entire', approving the object of the meetit.g. Mr. Wright, one of the counsel who defended the men at the late ...

... NSW STAMPS. The medico for ilia second reading of the Nem- paper Stamp Bill was prefaced by the presentatton of petitions in favour of the measure, many of which prayed that all printed mattrr should be allowed transmission through the post-office at ...

... proposed to meet this loss by certain impositions trade. Thls second portion of Customs* reforms consisted in the abolition and reduction of duties on various articles, a list of which read, and the changes were to met by an extension of a very small penny taxation ...

... of time information and instruction communiceted, to the results achieved by the abolition of the newspaper stamp—results which would immensely increased when the paper duty itself wae finally abolished. There was too generally in the House mf Lords an ...

... cent. to the duty on elate of £lO,OOO and upward., whether consisting of realty or personalty, and this would be levied by a new and separate duty, which he did not wish to mix up with the probate duty- I'he tenants of the new death duty for the present ...

... (pima. The arguments and reasons inlnyour of the total abolition, rather than the partial reduction, of duties, whether of excise or enwohis, do not extend to any that eau in collected by stamps. Stamp ditties are collected at the least possible expense ...

... record, shows £2,309,000. There is also on this item of account a great increase in the spirit duties, new Irish duties, and the hop and paper duties. The Stamps, £269,277; the Assessed Taxes £52,000; the Property and Income Tax, £3,636,710;, Post-office ...

... printed paid a duty of d. per pound. each copy issued a stamp duty of Id., and (Audi &di er , isement t ax of Is. i d , the p, ices were necessarily high. and die circulation— as compared with the newspapers of to day —small. %Pith the abolition of the laves ...

... ation, which has had its reaction. This also true of the abolition of the stamp duty, bnt not large extent. With stamp or advertisement duty, and with the virtual, though not nominal, abolition every ...