... Abolition of the snap-tmx t:.126,000 beau's. Reduction of the duty on lite assurance frost be. tid. per cent. to ed. per cent. 29,000 Redact of receipt stamps Irmo the present scale, ranging Irmo 3d, to 100. to • udiforre rate of Id. Reduction of duty ...

... l'etitions. Signatures. For abolition Against abolition A careful analysis of those petitions Les been made. The following will show tlw sources from whielt those in favour of abolition have come : From Matepayen and Inhabitants 1,738 Protestant Dissentinr ...

... NSW STAMPS. The medico for ilia second reading of the Nem- paper Stamp Bill was prefaced by the presentatton of petitions in favour of the measure, many of which prayed that all printed mattrr should be allowed transmission through the post-office at ...

... bead of Stamps, the reduction appears tube 179,719—0 wing to the abolition of the discount allowed on receipt and certain other stamps, which caused a considerable demand just before such abolition took place, and the general reduction of the ...

... imposition of a tax, the ministry always contrived somehow to do without it. Thev had been rmmised an abolition of the brick duty and a reduction on stamps. From the former measure some relief to industry might be expected ; but the latter would neither do ...

... fist referriug to she duty atoms, and the 'mond on mtip cemithates, Lodi 'Lich were agreed to. The thud was hit • tax of lid. on all advents. memo. It coding th e disrussutn of this, he captained ht. the object of the stamp duty on iiritaliapsr sisgyboa ...

... four resolutions—for the abolition of the paper duty, the newspaper stamp, the advertisement duty, and the duty on foreign books. Only one of these resolutions was carried to a division, namely that for the repeal of the paper ...

... ly abolished. He. Went- worth is in tivair of their abolition ; and on this ground alone every Dissents, in the Borough and Hundreds mint feel himself bound to support that • gentleman. Public duty demands that no considerations of private friendship ...

... four resolutions—for the abolition of the paper duty, the newspaper stamp, the advertisement duty, and the duty on foreign books. Only one of these reedutiont was carried to a division, namely that for the repeal of the paper ...

... The Chancellor of the Exchequer reckoned that more than two millions sterling would be bid to the revenue by the abolition of the paper duties and the sacrifice of one penny on the income-tax, and there is • Gillian-off of 5.868,000 in the Excise, and of ...

... HOUSE OF 1.01(1)8.—illtDAY, Fr s. 17• Petitions were presented against the total abolition of church-rata, marriage with a deemused wife's sister, and Endowed Schools Bill. The Loan laid upon the table the third and kat report of the commissioners appointed ...

... es; to redoes the stamp duties on acelesiastiml hernias, where goblet as to foes a serious burden or prevent the see of the isstrumnet, to make a change in the law of charter party, which was in an unestidactory sate, and reds* the duty to and to some other ...