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

... society meeting in Temple Street and we again urge our many readers to become members The reduction of the stamp duty and the abolition of the duty on bricks cannot but have beneficial tendency in stimulating the prudent of the working classes to erect ...

... return of duty on account of debts discharged. The second point urged is an alteration of the excess of duty payable on grants of letters of administration in cases of intestacy —viz., increase calculated at about 33 per cent, over the duty where there ...

... substitu- tion. As to duties on gold and silver plate, and licenses for dealers in them, the Inland Revenue Department may substitute avoirdupois or metric equivalents until the law is changed, and the same may be done in assessing customs duties. Considering ...

... THE ABOLITION OF UNIVERSITY TESTS.I Last evening, a meeting, under the auspices of the Bir- nminghamn Central Nonconformist Committee, was held at the Assembly Rooms, at the Royal Hotel, in support of the complete abolition of University Tests, There ...

... TEE PROPOSED ABOLITION OF THE INCOME TAX. MAGISTERIAL PROCEEDINGS AT LEAMINGTON. I Yesterday, at the Town Hall, Leamington, before Messrs. E. Wheler and J. Panton Gubbins, James Martin and Edward Crofton, the two men who were arrested on Tuesday by Mr ...

... One of the most important changes is the entire abolition of progressive duty —an instrument is now only charged with the principal or ad valorem duty, no matter what its length may be. The common deed stamp is now only ten shillings, in place of 30s. as ...

... TOTAL ABOLITION OF FIRE INSURANCE DUTY. D ISTRICT FIRE OFFICE (Opposite the Post Office), 61, NEW STREET, BIRMINGHAM, UNITED WITH THE ALLIANCE BRITISH AND FOREIGN LIFE AND FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY. INSTITUTED 1824. Sub Scribed Capital • £5,000,000. Paid-up ...

... TRADESMEN'S ADDRESSES. ABOLITION OF THE PAPER DUTYDENJAMIN HALL, Wholesale and Retail Stationbr, Account Book Manufacturer and Lbtter-Prbss Printer, respectfully inform his Friends and the Public that he has REDUCED the PRICE of EVERY KIND of PAPER, ...

... AND SU STAM To celebrate the abolition of these duties, the rinters of ' Birmingham assembled at dinner, on Monday, at the Odd | Fellows’ Hali. About eighty members of the trade sit down to | a most ample and excellent repast, with the accompaniment of ...

... ALL POLICIES ARE NOW RENEWED AND ISSUED FREE OF DUTY. And no charge for Policy Stamp, however small the sum insured. RECEIPTS for the RENEWAL of POLICIES which became due at MIDSUMiIER are ready for delivery at the Office, and the Aoent* of the Company ...

... uncertainty as to what might be done with the duties, and the public declined to purchase plate and to pay duty upon it in the expectation of the duty being removed. Moreover, the agitation to abolish the duty, in which Mr. WVatherstois was prominently active ...