... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... exercised in regard to expenses incurre•l for public works. He likewise advocated the suppression of the nctrois, and the abolition of stamp-duty upon newspapere, and of the impost upon salt. In conclusion, he proposed the introduction of the Income-tax. M. Goma ...

... wellgrounded feelings of prudence and industry. It will not be against the present able papers of our land that the stamp and advertisement-duties have been abolished. Less capital is required, less care on the editor's mind, less risk; more encouragement to ...

... frid by means of adhesive stamps, to be provided by the Commis. sioners of Inland Revenue.' This refers to the stamp-duty on write of confirmation, ike., endorsed on other deeds, and the effect, s'iould the clause be adopted, will be to save the expense ...

... proposes to impose a duty upon car- SEtirts of half the amount now paid by stage and omnibuses. —He proposes that, instead of a duty of 5 per cent, on Railway Companies with exemptions in favour of excursion traffic, there should be a duty of Si per oent, ...

... 000 on the year, the total amount being £18,047,000 against £19,492,000. This result is, of course, owing to the abolition of the Paper-duty, which amounted to something like the difference between the two sums. The surrender of this considerable source ...