... rejection a measure whereby taxation is reduced, the distance is very small, and nothing but the most imperative sense of public duty should induce tbe Upper House to take step which approaches so nearly to tbe boundary of constitatioual prerogative. it almost ...

... timber and equali-e the duty wine in Kittles to the duty wine wood. The timber duty waa bad as it could be. It was a protective duty on a raw msteritd, which the country stood in great want It was an article of great bulk, of which required large quantities ...

... other country, for all are leagued against as protected ' countries; France, not content with the duty imposed upon corn and flour, has now imposed a duty upon live stock varying from If. to 12f. per head; we,in return, take many cattle ...

... in the two editions of the same paper. The duty alone thus amounted to Among the objects successfully accomplished in great part by the advocacy of the Athencexun may be named the abolition of the stamp duty and of that on paper. The whole the profit ...

... within the laai years, and see who arc the true friends of the working classes. Did the Tories assist abolish the compulsory stamp on newspapers in 1855 ? Not they ! They themselves imposed the tax prevent the diffusion of political knowledge, and, true ...

... the payment of stamp duties, resolution was adopted to memorialise the Inland Revenue, urging the desirability of receiving cheques on country banks and post-office orders in payment of legacy, succession,and other stamps and duties, on the same terms ...

... paper duty. To Mr. Dobson Collett, secretary of _this Association, is owing much of the success of the movement to which the Cheap Press owes its existence. Mr. Milner Gibson, who so strenuously exerted himself for the repeal of the stamp-duty, is to ...

... passed resolution in favour 'of '’abolishing* Government duty, the conclusion to reduce the duty aay, that instead of paying *. per upon thn«o Policies, would rctluce it to is. ou-, the policy stamp, which was befoto charged Is, S£l to Id; this reduction ...

... and Scotland as he had asked for Ireland. In the Stamps, also, there is to be considerable relief; receipt stamps are to be abolished, a Queen's head franking a'receipt it does a letter. The stamp duty on life assurance is to be reduced ; and those on ...

... newspaper stamps were issued from the Stamp-office, giving free transmission of newspapers post m the United Kingdom. After the Ist of January next, dog licenses may be procured not only from the supervisors of excise and the distributors of stamps, as hitherto ...

... Colonies ; the reduction of the stamp duty on indentures, and on health insurance policies ; the allowing loss on one schedule of the Income tax to be set off against the profit on another; and the remission of the duties gold and silver plate, including ...

... could wish them be, it is because my profession has hitherto imposed on me duties in other parts of Her Majesty's dominions. If you consent to bind to you new ties', and new duties, I will endeavour to fulfil them with all the energy I possess, and in all ...