... foreign underwriters, who have no such tax to pay. The argument in favour of abolition which seems most likely to have weight is the very small amount realised by the stamp. In last year’s return it figured for no more than £153,690, of which England ...

... Paper Works, and Messrs R. Tullis Co., Edinburgh. He exerted himself strenuously for the removal of the stamp duty on newspapers. Since the abolition of that tax the firm prospered immensely, and the success was mainly attributable to the great business ...

... Form not Essential Stamped Paper not Required a Hologkaph Will Witnesses a Will Testator Unablk An Invalid will Minor's Will Marriage does not Alter Will Leoacies Deposit Receipt Inventory Personal Est x Debts Death Duties Estatk Duty Small Estates Trustees ...

... he became con- nected with the North British Mail. Tle took an active part in the movement for the abolition of the newspaper stamp aud advertisement duty, and started the Glasyow Daily News, which was the first penny daily paper publi-hed in Great Me ...

... cuss can be made out for the abolition of the silver plate duty. has been condemned ail recent Chancellor* of the Exchequer, and has only been retained because until this year the money needed for drawbacks on on which duty had been paid could not afforded ...

... Essential Stamped Paper not Required A Holograph Will Witnesses to a Will Testator Unable to Sign » An Invalid will Minor's Will marriage does not Alter Will Legacies Deposit Receipt Inventory Personal Estate Debts Death Duties Estate Duty Small Estates ...

... Form not Essential Stamped not Required Holograph Will Witnesses to a Will Testator Unable to Sign Invalid ill Minor's Will marriage does not Alter a Will Legacies Deposit Receipt Inventory Personal Estate Debts Death Duties Ebtati-; Duty . •. , .. Small ...

... not Esses*** Stamped Paper not Resuib**' A Holograph Will Witnesses to a Will Testator Unable Sign An Invalid «■ ill .Minor's Will v»'ii* Marriage does not A Legacies i Deposit Receipt Inventory Personal Debts Death Duties Estate Duty Small Estates Trustees ...

... knowledge that the was offered and declined the late Sir Charles Newton, who preferred the more attractive and less responsible duties attaching to his office keeper of the Greek and Roman antiquities. Bond was then appointed the post of chief the British Museum ...

... The repeal the paper duty took effect on October 1, 1861. Already, in 1853, the advertisement duty, eighteenpence each, bad been removed ; and in 1855 the newspaper stamp was abolished ; wherefore, with the abolition of the paper duty, 1861, ...

... is placed of either discharging its functions and thus strengthening the clamour for its abolition, or failing to discharge them and thus effecting its own abolition, in fact, though not in form. The double danger can in our judgment be averted only by ...

... not Essential Stamped Paper not Required Holograph Will Witnesses a Will Testator Unable Sign An Invalid ill Minor's Will Marriage does not Alter a Will Legacies Deposit Receipt Inventory Personal Estate Debts Death Duties Est at i. Duty Small Estates ...