... proposed to meet this loss by certain impositions trade. Thls second portion of Customs* reforms consisted in the abolition and reduction of duties on various articles, a list of which read, and the changes were to met by an extension of a very small penny taxation ...

... printed paid a duty of d. per pound. each copy issued a stamp duty of Id., and (Audi &di er , isement t ax of Is. i d , the p, ices were necessarily high. and die circulation— as compared with the newspapers of to day —small. %Pith the abolition of the laves ...

... ation, which has had its reaction. This also true of the abolition of the stamp duty, bnt not large extent. With stamp or advertisement duty, and with the virtual, though not nominal, abolition every ...

... total amount reduced in income tax and tea duties amount to £3,200,000. In addition to those large reduction?, Mr. Gladstone proposes to dispose of £l-13,000 of the surplus by the abolition of the eighteenpenny stamp on bills of lading, and by tho penny charge ...

... of 21. ; reduce the stamp duty on agreements to hire furnished houses for less than 12 months from 10s. to 2s. 6d. ; to reduce the income tax from lOd. over 160/. to 9d., and from 7d.under 130/. to 6d. ; and to repeal the Excise duty on paper. Here in, ...

... of the Kxchequer gave explanation of the matter and the bIU passed. Un the third reading of the Stamp Duties BUI, Sir 11. Cairns suggested that the stamp duty imposed the bill on contracta for the sale stock was not warranted by the resolution. The suggestion ...

... and Is. for the stamp in excess the sum charged the fire-office an equivalent for the risk. Then, suppose five tradesmen who Insured in fire different offices 1,000/. each. They paid ss. for their policy stamps and 71. 10s. for duty. But suppose 200 ...

... gained. The reduction of tho stump duty from 4d. to Id. wss great step advance; but the crowning triumph (not reckoning the abolition of tbo paper duty, which is yet to oome) was tho abolition of tho /compulsory stamp in 1855. Since that ...

... deceased is that of the husband or wife of the deceased, and to allow the amount of the ad ',dorm stamp duty to be deducted from payments of further estate duty on settled property under the clause, were accepted by the Government, and the Clause, as amended ...

... consenting parties to. The abolition of slavery was an Act which the Liberal party in this country paused. The abolition of slavery by England had had a great effect upon the question of slavery everywhere (hear) • for although the abolition of slavery in the ...

... , Paying and owing, Mr. M. Adams ; hymn 628. The chair was taken by Mr. J. Feeley, of Hanalope, who ably fulfilled the duties. The attendance was very good and much credit was due both to teachers and scholars for their several renderings. At the don ...

... year, under schedules and B—half the stamp duties—hall the assessed taxesand all the land tax, its whole contribution to tberevenue was £11,202,976, little more one-ZoariA of the produce of the customs and excise duties. Coffee, com, currants, hops, malt ...