... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... place, we find it proposed to reduce the Lads Stamp Duty on Assurances from 2s. 6d. to. 6d. ; and to 'the substitute a penny Stamp en all Receipts. Next come end- the Attorney Certificates, and the Stamp e~n Articles of take Clerkship. The former is to ...

... post-office. I Nor will the loss be made up by increased paper duty-because it the same agitators who have got up this cry against the stamp l, are also pledged to abolish the excise duty ois paper. Another d, practical evil, these shrewd and experienced ...

... en Knowvledge, so ed called, has not prospered in the hands of the Ministry to this session. The proposed abolition of the newspaper di stamp, which, instead of being a tax on knowledge, is an a much prized public boon, in aid of thie circulation of ...

... conceded. the In stamps, receipt stamps to be abolished-a Queen's kwn headfranking a receipt, as it does a letter. Stamp duty ipa-on life &sauranceg to be reduced. Attorneys' certificates pro. and admission stamps are to be lowered. ...

... and partly on account of all d the public, stoutly remonstrate against the abolition the z of the impressed stamp, and are not propitiated by the debo repeal of the paper duty, which will go chiefly into Lord the pockets of the paper manufacturers, and ...

... the import duties, it will be impossible to protect the public from this P ndescription of fraud. L i STAMPS. s The gross receipt for stamps for the year was 28,247,342, E e while for 1857 it was £7,695,042. In regard to newspaper S n stamps, after noticing ...

... Vienna, Tuesday. In to-day’s sitting of the Lower House of the Austrian Reichsrath motion in favour of the abolition of newspaper stamp duties was introduced. Nothing is known hero in official circles of any agrarian disturbances having occurred in the ...

... and tea a duties ; resorting to 9d in the pound income tax, I' and foregoing all attempts to relieve the public of b the more pressing items of taxation. The second, to A give up the war duties on tea and sugar, retaining only e peace duties, and fall ...

... to the Stamp Duties Bill he proposed th~at duties ion Railway shares should be i per cent, instead of * per cn.aheofriginally intended. He also proposed an uni- i omraeo per cent. on bonds given for money borrowed. |i He meant to impose a duty of is. ...

... table. The second reading of the Edinburgh and Caneungate AT)na'1:Y Tax Abolition Bill was deferred till Thursday the 14th JUlYvLt twelve o'clock. The Committee on the Custom Duties on Spirits Bill -1I- ferred till Monday next The Public Houses (Sootland)Bill ...