... should undertake the duty of distributor of !r-stamps. Questions of a complicated nature relative to he legacy and succession duties were not referred to the he distributor of stamps. He (witness) was not aware that athe amount of stamps in ...

... future to bear a halfpenny stamp, a stamp of double that value being affixed to boxes' of a larger size. As wax lights are a more aristocratic commodity, each box, however small it may be, is to bear a penny stamp; and a similar stamp must be affixed to boxes ...

... in the customs has been no more than £16,490, though the sugar duties have undergone another gradual diminution in rg- the interval between the two quarters compared, and the r timber duties are in the process of reduction thisyear. The [a y increased ...

... that it the very moderate D duties still levied on it there is a decrease of £95,000. . The diminished duty on tea is answerable for £190,000, ; while there is a fall of £10,000 in the duty on tobacco, it and £55,000 in the duty on wine, These losses arecoun-f ...

... in reference t. this and other matters were confirmed. STAMP DUTIES ON MARINE IN- SURANCE POLICIES. The commercial law committee presented a-re- port which stated a number of reasons why this duty was distinguished in an obnoxious and oppressive way from ...

... Chancellor of the Exchequer was lh willing to meet those wislhes by fixing the duty on wine at is. per gallon in casks and bottles alike; but whether. the entire abolition of the corn duty was contemplated. remanied to be seen..-Mr. Rawlins said lie supposed it ...

... to spirits and beer. The old death duties-namely, probate, legacy, and succession duty-realised £6,056,000, an increased £116,000, and the newv estate duty £784,000, S against an estimate of £D800,000. General stamps, the revenue from *vhich was alwvays ...

... adkvocatea tho abolition of the-duty dl$ teA mld sugar before the abolition of thc paper (ty. Soda oaftervwauds another placarel appeared., aunutincittg thlat r~. Watts and Mr.. W. P. Roberts vwould move an ameculrmtat in favour of the abolition of the tax ...

... t i stamps, £474,487; post-office, £25,000; taxes, £51,345 ' t I property tax, £225,169; and the customs, notwithstanding v the decreased duty upon, and the suspension of business a h in, tea and other articles pending the debates on the t duties to be ...

... prorernent. The question of a stamping depart- ment for Liverpool had for some time enraged the I attention of the committee, and on the 7th July . last the inland Revenue Department announced I thit the limit of stamping at the office in Victoria- st ...

... would be taken into consideration by the oounedlThat the new small stamp imposts are vexatious and oppressive to trade, and immoral in their operation. That the assessment of stamps on foreign trills the rate of 10s. per £1000 (instead of Is. per £100) ...

... FOREIGN SPIRITS AT A T b iREDVCED DUTY. 'A deputation from the Irish and Scotch distillers waited on the Right Hon. -tho' Chancellor of the Ex- a chequer, to draw his attention to the effrct which the proposed reduction 6f duty on foreign spirits ad- w ?? ...