... Committees the Corps Legislatif. With reference to the Press, the proposed changes would consist in the lowering of the Stamp Duty, the abolition of the necessity for Government authorisation ; and, cases of offences against the Press laws, the substitution of ...

... ABOLITION OF THE PAPER AND NEWSPAPER STAMP DUTIFS. All connected with the press will rejoice in the abolition of the paper duty, as relieving the raw material—the blank sheet of all literary ope- rations—from a tax which is less considerable in amount ...

... Abolition of the Newspaper Stamp, the Advertisement and the Paper Duties.—lt is said, and we understand with some truth, that the Chancellor of the Exchequer has at length been convinced, by the powerful arguments and convincing statistical returns of ...

... It is rumoured that Mr Gladstone intends to propose the abolition of the Inhabited House Duty. Property the value of £16,000 been destroyed by the underground fire South Shields. A house and garden in a fashionable quarter of Paris were sold the other ...

... g notour bankruptcy is prescribed, and the procedure in cessio the instance of a creditor set forth, but no Court fee, stamp duties, or Government payments are exigible. In the case of bankruptcy under the Act 1856, the Sheriff may grant warrant to take ...

... PROPOSED ABOLITION OF PETTY CUSTOMS. POSITION OF PERTH COUNCIL. At the monthly meeting of Perth Town Council yesterdsy—Lord Provost Dewar presiding—a communication was read from the Town Clerk of Inverness with regard to the Petty Customs Abolition Bill, ...

... PUBLIC NOTICES. SSOCIATION FOR THE ABOLITION OR REDUCTION OF THE DUTY ON FIRE INSURANCES. PATRONS. The t Hon, Lord STANLEY, M.P. Sir James Bart., M.P. Sir VILLIERS SHELLEY, Bart., THOMAS SLINesBY DuNComBE, Esq., M.P. GEORGE HADFIELD, -» M JoHN ARTHUR ...

... notour bankruptcy is prescribed, and the procedure in cessio at the instance of a creditor set forth, but no Court fee, stamp duties, or Government payments are exigible. In the case of bankruptcy under the Act of 1856, the Sheriff may grant warrant to ...

... THE ABOLITION OF THE HOUSE OF j LORDS. Yesterday afternoon a demonstration in support of tlie abolition of the House of Lords was heid in Hyde Park under tiie auspices of the various Radical organizations in tlio Metropolis. It is estimated that nearly ...

... reasonable. Had the Chancellor of the Exchequer pro- posed the total abolition of the duties at a stroke, and at the same time have accom- panied the abolition by a fair drawback upon duty paid stocks, the opposition would have been of a mild order, and would ...

... ADVERTISEMENT DUTY. On Thursday night Mr Milner Gibson brought forward bis annual motion for the abolition of what are generally designated the taxes on knowledge, or, other words, the paper duty, the newspaper stamp, and the advertisement ...

... been marvellously restored by very simple means, and as a public duty feels it incumbent him th information toothers similarly affected, receipt of a directed envelope bearing two stamps addressed B. B. Laurie. Hisq., Montague Chambers, Montague Street ...