... any alteration is to be made in reference to newspapers, that the advertisement duty should be taken off entirely, and the stamp duty left alone. Take off the supplement stamp, and you confer a boon to a very partial extent. The public will gain by the reduction ...

... adopt in deference to Mr. M. Gibson and the Taxes on Knowledge Abolition supporters in the house, if he obtained rejection of the Attorneys' Certificate Duty, which, like the Advertisement Duty, had been condemned by a vote of the House. This alternative ...

... I:EPLAI. OF TUE NEWerAFKII STAMP DUTY. REDUCTION OF THE PRICE OF Tilt WAKEFIELD JOURNAL AND EXAMINER. Tea act for the abolition of the compulsory penny stamp on ueisuspers haring now become the law of thu lend. the price of the WAIIIVEIRLD is reduced ...

... THB NEWSPAPER STAMP, Among the financial schemes which it appears Mr. Gladstone has in his repertory for the session of 1855, is the Repeal of the Stamp Duty on News- papers. In this case agitation has done its work, and the Coalition Government once ...

... THE NEWSPAPER PENNY STAMP, THE PAPEB DUTY, AND THE ADVEBTISEMENT DUTY. Tbe very sb urd report, of tbe Committee of Loquiry, on tbe Newspaper Stamp Law, was noticed to our paper of the second instant ; and our views were then very fully expressed. On tbat ...

... ABOLITION OF TIRE INSURANCE DUTY. M ANCHESTER FIRE ASSURANCE COMPANY. BR, HATICHISTER.—m, CREAPSIDE, With Agencies in all the principal please in the Kingdom. The Directors beg to give Notice that they are prepared to issue Policies, dated from 25th June ...

... THE NEWSPAPER STAMP ACT. The reaol utioos of tbe Cha ncellor of the Exchequer, for altering and amending the laws relating to the Stamp duty on newspapers, will, it is expected, be proposed for tbe adoption of Parliament on Monday evening. These r ...

... although Mr. | pledged himself to introduce a measure for the a D y .of the newspaper stamp, we can hardly congratuia jl ! nation at large upon the substitute for that stamp- true that this is at all events a step in the right dir fl f I and we may anticipate ...

... this: The stamp for a lease amounting to £3O was so much; they put the stamp on the lease, and that was all the stamp that had been used in England; but the court held that, where there was a covenant to build upon the land, they wanted a deed stamp, as it ...

... repeal of the excise duty on paper, in the first place — then a repeal of the duty on advertisements, on account of the difficulty in discriminating, and the irregularity in charging tbem —and, lastly, the abolition of the Newspaper Stamp, with certain mental ...

... of postage and other stamps, worth £1,500, and £i 3 in gold and silver. The stamps consisted of 700 sheets of penny postage stamps, value £700 ; twopenny ditto, worth £200 ; parcels of fourpenny, tenpenny, and shilling postage stamps, each worth £100; printed ...

... has imposed a uniform penny stamp on receipts, which, by the smallness of its cost, offers little inducement to evasion; and under cover of this seeming liberality he has again subjected to the requirements of the stamp duty all receipts for sums between ...