... committees in the Corps Legislatif. With reference to the press, the proposed changes would consist in a lowering of the stamp duty, the abolition of the necessity for Government authorisation, and, in cases of offences against the press laws, the substitution ...

... THE INDIAN STAMP DUTIES. Lord FITZGERALD moved for a return of the taxes and duties raised or levied on the administration of justice in India by the stamps which it is necessary to affix to the documents used in legal procedure. In doing so, the noble ...

... ABOLITION OP THE PAPER DUTY, Price TWOPENCE, Unstamped. THREEPENCE, Stamped. The LIVERPOOL MERCANTILE GAZETTE, AND MYERS’S WEEKLY ADVERTISER. established July 1817. PUBLISHED EVERY MONDAY MORNING, At No. 1, Lancaster Buildings, Tithebarn Street, Liverpool ...

... as they ought to have done. If they had done their duty, those accumulations could never have taken place. have no power to accumulate money ; there are no claims upon the Trust, and it is our duty to levy from the people who use the road nothing more ...

... PROPOSED ABOLITION OF THE NEWSPAPER STAMP. (From the Montrose Standard.) One of the proposals in the present Budget is the abolition of the impressed Stamp on Newspapers, and with it of course the privilege and convenience hitherto accorded to the public ...

... ABOLITION OF CHURCH-RATES. Numerous petitions having been presented for and against the abolition of church-rates. Sir J. Trei.av. moved that the House go into committee upon the church-rates abolition bill. After some remarks from Mr. Packe in opposition ...

... STAMPS The gross receipt for stamps for the year was £8,247,342, while for 1857 it was £7,695.042. In regard to newspaper stamps, after noticing that the plan of incorporating the stamp with the type, so as to impress it with the printing of the paper ...

... said the best remedy would be to repeal the stamp duty on newspapers at once. Sir F. Thesiger described the difficulty there was in framing Bill to meet the case. Mr Cobden also urged the abolition of the stamp on newspapers, owing to the difficulty of ...

... do not appear to have been very unanimous in their testimony; but, upon the whole, they seem favourable to the abolition of the stamp duty. It is generally believed that established newspapers are opposed to any alteration on the present system, as likely ...

... will take one penny off the income-tax. The sugar duties will be reduced in some cases, equalised in others. The tea and coffee duties will not be touched. Brewers’ licenses will undergo change ; also stamps on newspapers. Some plan will be introduced to ...

... THE EEPEAL OF THE PAPER DUTY, In consequence of the abolition of the excise duty on paper, we have the pleasure of intimating to our Readers that the price of the Journal will Reduced. It will, from the date of our next publication—viz., the 2d of October ...

... CUSTOMS DUTIES ACTS. The House then proceeded to take into consideration the Customs Duties Acts. The Chancellor of the Exchequer moved the first resolution“ That from and after a time to specified, in lieu of the stamp duties now payable on the following ...