... cent, duty on railway passenger receipts, and to charge a duty of 1 per cent, on all railway receipts, including those for goods' traffic—to reduce the income-tax to 4d per El, and the sugar duty by 50 per cent. With regard to the stamp ...

... the reduction to a sixpenny duty on advertisements, and the abolition of the duty on newspaper supplements. They very justly remarked that the maintenance of that amount of duty leaves all the vexatious annoyance of the Stamp-office ...

... reduce the duty for Inbar small teammate from 6d to Id ; to reduce the duty on appraise:mete, and to relieve the special pleaders sad conveyancers by putting them on the same footing se attorneys. He proposed also to rodeos the stamp duties on eoclesiestioal ...

... forward resolutions for the the advertisement duty, the repeal of the stamp date, and other restrictions, which operate to restrain lb* e periodical press from narrating Current events; and the re peal of the duty on paper. He contended, that a o g le in the ...

... in the stamp duties upon transfers of property to the value of £lOOO, and that above that amount they should be equalised. Ile proposed a similar course with regard to mortgages, bonds, and all sums under £lOOO, and also to reduce the stamp duty on leases ...

... the stamp duties on matriculation and degrees. The changes proposed in the constitution and government of the colleges are equally extensive and of much the same character. Time will not allow us to go into details, but they amount to the abolition of ...

... no doubt that the present system of stamp duties operates in a manner shamefully unjust: thus the sale of a piece of land, worth £5O, requires a stamp costing 12i per cent. of the purchase money, while the stamp duties on the sale of a piece ...

... the Inventor of the Screw Propeller-16th May. Absent at division on Spirit Duties (Excise) Bill —lsth May. Absent at division on motion for second reading of Church-Hates Abolition Bill-16th May. Absent at division on motion for • Revision of our Diplomatic ...

... agreed to. The following bills passed through c,rnmittee : Public Works (Ireland); Edinburgh University; Inland Revenue; Stamp-duties on Prthstes, &C. The House adjourned at seven p.m. ...

... and sugar might now be made ' luxuries of the rich if duties enough were imposed 1 upon them. The wine duties were duties of protection, differential, not revenue duties. The reduction , 1 of the duty upon wine front Si 10d to 3s per gallon ...

... Income-tax and succession duty were to render possible. The excise duty on soap was repealed; several stamp duties were reduced, among them those on receipts for which was substituted the now familiar penny receipt stamp; the ...

... respect to the advertisement duty, he proposed to reduce the duty to 6d., and to repeal the stamp duty upon supplements to newspapers. The first loss on these duties will be £160,000. It is also proposed to reduce the ...