... ABOLITION OF THE ADVERTISEMENT DUTIES (hrom the Morning or Friday.) The bill for abolishing the Advertisement Duty received the Royal Assent last night, and comes into operation. this day ; and we have, theretore, the satisfaction of announcing that the ...

... Committee on the Stamp Duties Commo ?? __e_ 1. ?? I_ tit Bill. The measure itself seemed to meet with much dis- favour in many quarters; but it -was submitted to and carried. until the clause regulating the ad valarem scale of duties wasproposed. The ...

... 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 ...

... ASSOCIATION FOR TOTAL ABOLITION OF TlE ANNUITY-TAX. Last night a meeting of this Association wasa held in the upper room of Queen Street Hall, to E hear a statement respecting the present position t of the movement-ex Councill0r Burns presiding. n The ...

... 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 ...

... being now unavoidably carried post free; seeing, in short, that in many cases the stamp is paid whore no postal advantages are received, and in other eases thie stamp is not paid where postal advantages are obtained, your coimmittee are of opinion that ...

... 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 ...

... us circumstances, and, having obtained as an in- stalnent the abolition of the stamp duty on newspapers, seemed now about to be crowned with success by the total repeal of the paper duties. (Auplause.) That desirable end was in no slight degree to be ...

... has been directed against the n present system. They must also know that the stamp duty is n the postage of thenewspaper, prepaid in that form, and ena- bling the stamped sheet to pass free by post any number of ), times, and s'o to travel to the farthest ...

... 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 ...

... on the repeal of the paper duty, consequent upon the motion of Sir Wm. Miles, the committee of the above association would respectfully subtmit the fol- lowing ?? to Ojeectloih to the Rcpgre. 1. That the abolition of the duty will cause a rise in the price ...

... themselves. .When they sec ,ask for the abolition of the penny stamp. in the name i of the public, I ask what will the public get by it ? evi It would he Pure fudge at this time to endeavour to Ou1 separate thle penny stamp from the privilege of postage. ex( ...