... the reduction to a sixpenny duty on advertisements, and the abolition of the duty on newspaper supplements. They very justly remarked that the maintenance of that amount of duty leaves all the vexatious annoyance of the Stamp-office ...

... reduce the duty for Inbar small teammate from 6d to Id ; to reduce the duty on appraise:mete, and to relieve the special pleaders sad conveyancers by putting them on the same footing se attorneys. He proposed also to rodeos the stamp duties on eoclesiestioal ...

... the stamp duties on matriculation and degrees. The changes proposed in the constitution and government of the colleges are equally extensive and of much the same character. Time will not allow us to go into details, but they amount to the abolition of ...

... respect to the advertisement duty, he proposed to reduce the duty to 6d., and to repeal the stamp duty upon supplements to newspapers. The first loss on these duties will be £160,000. It is also proposed to reduce the ...

... were in the habit of taking the stamps off them, anW that Mr. Howarth received the stamps, and gave the boys pastry in exchange. The police had watched and warned Kr. Howarth, and at last searched his house and found stamps to the value of £35, many of which ...

... them to agree to equalise the duties on spirits. Parliament had leeislatiog upon this subject for several years. In 1853, the duties on spirits ware raised considerably, with great benefit tb the exehequer. In 1855 the duties on English and Scotch spirits ...

... • loss of £150,000 by the alteration of stamp. duty on bills of exchange in 1853, a decreed* of £290,000 in assessed taxes, £260,000 by the abolition of the newspaper stamp-duty, and £60,000 on the carriage ...

... yORKSHIRE INSURANCE COMPANY. — PROPOSED ABOLITION OF THE FIRE INSURANCE DUTY. With a desire to place Persons insuring in this Office in a position to benefit at the earliest possible moment by the ABOLITION OF THE DUTY, all new !neurones' will be issued by ...

... neglect of duty by an appeal to a letter addremed to them by the Governor, who intimated that he was eating in Recordante with taatrnations he had received from the Government* Two more of the warders of this prison have been Kneaded from duty. The Negro ...

... his financial plan, and, accordingly, on the 3rd of December, the agricultural mind was gratified by the proposed abolition of the malt duty and the doubling of the house-tax. But like many less important measures, the budget was set up only to be knocked ...

... excise duties were swept away, it would be a much greater step towards free trade, than the abolition of any duties on foreign imports. To ourselves the removal of the penny stamp duty would be an incalculable boon; but we know that the ...

... to the abolition of church-rates —they would do wrong if they did not for a moment glance at the fact that that day was the lest of the great series of Parliaments which was inaugurated by the bill of 1832. They would be unmindful of their duty if they ...