... system of lighting dues. It was pointed out that the duties were levied at our ports when in almost every other country there was no such impost. The speakers considered that it was a national duty to provide lights, buoys, and beacons, and should therefore ...

... ABOLITION OF TAXES IN MEXICO. [RECTKR'8 TIILICGRAM. NEW YORK, Thursday. A despatch from Mexico aunounces that a bill has been introduced in Congress for reducing the duties on farming implements, and exempting from taxation for 50 years all coal, iron ...

... system of lighting dues. It was pointed out that the duties were levied at our ports when in almost every other country there was no such impost. The speakers considered that it was a national duty to provide lights, buoys, and beacons, and should therefore ...

... was well aware of the situation in which he was placed, and for many weeks past the condition of his elder brother and the duties which might be devolved On him otherwise than by the osurse of nature have been the subject of communications j betweee him ...

... st-opap, but it I could have ain ordimuary stamp for t16 amount f1 rixpsuired. I told her that she could not very ii wrell Sell impressed stamps~, but that 1 wvished fc the document to be forwarded to have the Stamp impressed on it.. 'She appeajred. jather ...

... TEIEGR.AMS.) FRANCE. J\GrT3 jUXE tt;.-II yesterday's sitting of the Iegis- Intive Body M. H c ?? proposed the abolition of the im. Port duty on vraiu from the I1st July. M, Forcade do I1 R1oqeetto oppeostd the proposal, as like]y seriously to disturb ...

... Office 2,610,000 Telegraphs 500,000 | Packet Service 1,135,000 f Abolition of Purchase 853,000 Total £ 71,313,000 The reduction of the duties on coffee and chicory, the income tax, and house duty, is expected still to leave a quarter of a million in the hands ...

... appointed to inquire into the operation of the newspaper stamp duty has presented its report. It consists of five articles, the of which provides that from the 1st of January next the stamp duty upon newspapers shall be abolished. Article 2 makes it obligatory ...

... that fourfold. The railway pas- senger duty for the year ended with last March brought in £3H,888, being a decline of £5,783. This falhng off is mainly attributed to three distinct causes; first, the continued abolition of the second-class; secondly, the ...

... Income-tax are an alteration in the stamp duty on foreign securities, which will now be collected in another way without materi- ally affecting the Exchequer receipts a stamp on receipts by endorsement of cheques, and the abolition of the exemption of foreign ...

... watch-cases—to commence on July ûth. The abolition of the licence for playing-cards dates from September 2nd. The ninth resolution abolishes the stamp duties for policies of insurance, and substitutes a stamp duty of Id. This measure will ...

... he can by spreading- it, as it must be admitted, rather tlar. The boon he offers is an alteration in the Stamp duties and tho abolition of the duty on bricks. Tho En- glish nation asks its ministers FOR bread, and they give it LR'cks! Yet the Whig journalists ...