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... NEWSPAPERS. The meeting held in the metropolis, on Wednesday, for promoting the abolition of the taxes on newspapers, the excise duty on paper, and the advertisement duty, was more than usually attended, the public having seized the first moment to assemble ...

... manufacturers in proportion to quantity made. Total abolition of soap-tax. Universal Id. receipt stamp. Apprentices' indentures to be reduced from 20s. to 2s. 6d. Attorn i es' certi &Iles reduced one-third, and stamp from £l2O to .£BO. [Mr. Gladstone, however ...

... time. Lord BROUGHAM presented some petitions on the subject of the Excise duty upon paper, and addressed some observations to the House in favour of the abolition of the stamp duty on newspoprs. Several bills of minor importance passed through committee ...

... collection of the paper duty, are quite as numerous as those which for many years it was engaged in exposing, as connected with the advertisement duty and the newspaper stamp. Nothing will tend so much to the abolition of the paper duty, as ...

... advertising-sheets. The amount accruing to the revenue from this stamp duty—only £400,000 —would be of no importance whatever when weighed against the great and general advantages of abolition. If any government desires popularity, let it take the matter ...

... last session of Parliament, preferred the repeal of the tea and sugar duties to that of the paper duty, but with every respect for their opinion I could not but feel that the duties ou knowledge combined every evil of the other taxes I have named. (Hear ...

... of law of public safety, Article 75 of Constitution to be 'modified, reversion of electoral law, suppreseion of newspaper stamp duty, and trial by jury for press offences. Ninety-eight deputies have agreed to this programme. Clement Duvernois, it is said ...

... collection of the paper duty, are quite as numerous as those which for many years it was engaged in exposing, as connected with the advertisement duty and the newspaper stamp. Nothing will tend so much to the abolition of the paper duty, as ...

... the payment of stamp duties, a resolution was adopted to memorialise the Inland Revenue Board, urging the desirability of receiving cheques on country banks and Post-ofsce orders in payment of legacy, succession, and other stamp* and duties on the same terms ...

... Parliament to repeal the excise duty on paper; secondly, that it is expedient to abolish all the stamp duties now payable on newspapers in Great Britain and Ireland; thirdly, that it is expedient to abolish the duties on advertisements now payable in ...

... customs duty on tea of 15 florins per 100 lb. I need not say that this proposal, contrary as it is to the principles of free trade, meets with very strong opposition. The result naturally is that people are afraid that the abolition of the stamp-duly will ...