... both in reference to Excise and Stamps. He also proposed to redoes hawkers licenses from L 4 to £2; to compel tobacconists, who keep open for smoking, to take out licenses similar to wins houses; and to reduce the stamp duty on agreements for letting furnished ...

... gives tinder the beading Newspapers and Monopolies a readable chapt•r ott the effect of the reduction and the abolition of the stamp duty upon newspapers of the day. Dr. Hedderwick says; --The days of vast circulations in the newspaper press had not ...

... obvious that the reduction in the stamp duties on deeds and the abolition of game certificates must concern the country more than dwellers in towns, while the benefit arising from the abrogation of the penny stamp newspapers will exclusively enjoyed ...

... pattern post free for twenty stamps; the newest out-door Jacket, twenty-four stamps; a stylish Zouave dll to sixteen stamps ; the fashionable Garibaldi, fourteen stamps ; single sleeve, ten stamps : two ditto for eighteen ...

... their lordships’ amendments were got through, and the Bill passed through this stage. MISCELLANEOUS. The Stamp Duties (Recommitted) Bill, the Stamp Duties (Management) Bill, and the Inland Revenue Acts Repeal Bill passed through committee. The British Columbia ...

... summoned, the Royal assent was given in the usual form to the following Bills Consolidated Fund (Appropriation). Stamp Duties, Stamp Duties Management, Inland Revenue Acts Repeal. Greenwich Hospital, Pensions Commutation Act (18C'.i) Amendment, of Allegiance ...

... the removal of many of those burdens which are comprehensively described as taxes on knowledge. The abolition of the newspaper stamp, the advertisement duty, and the excise on paper were his latest achievements, and were recognised by testimonial which was ...

... committee, and several votes were taken on account of the army estimates. The Income-tax Bill passed through committee. The Stamp Duties Bill was read second time. The House adjourned at p.m. ...

... eneral on the prorogation the Canadian Parliament:— The removal of the duties on tea and coffee will lessen the cost of those important articles of food to people, and the stamp tax on bills of exchange and promissory notes will be appreciated by the ...

... character. The great grievance was that of the stamp duty imposed on all newspapers, placing them entirely out of the reach of the poorer class of workers, It was in 17113, under Queen Anne, that this stamp duty began. By gradual increase it reached, in the ...

... before deciding what course they would take in regard to the future progress the measure. STAMPS DUTIES BILL. The House went into committee on the Stamos Duties Bill, which passed a stage. MERCHANT SHIPPING CODE BILL. On the motion for the second reading ...

... of our resources. Tbe produce of the Customs duties last year was .£20,339,000, that the year before having been 033,000, being a diminution the extent of 12694,000. By the reduction in the sugar duties, has just been noted, Mr Lows calculated there ...