... his direction. The duty was cast upon him, and he should discharge it to the best of his ability, so long as he retained his present office. (Cries of Order.) He thought it right to take the steps he had taken, because it was a duty in the successful ...

... and the sugar duties were reduced one-half; several small trade licenses were repealed; the impressed newspaper stamp was abolished and the postage on newspapers reduced to a halfpenny; a number of stamp duties were reduced, and the stamp ...

... Income-tax and succession duty were to render possible. The excise duty on soap was repealed; several stamp duties were reduced, among them those on receipts for which was substituted the now familiar penny receipt stamp; the ...

... sanguine that a great waste of public money would be prevented, by the partial abolition of the large fees that were now collected for the small amount of work done. The duties of the Chancellor ought to be clearly defined. In many instances he received ...

... course, the neglect of duty or of discipline; and we shall mean by the word heroism in like manner, whether applied to a soldier or to any human bein„, ,, not more courage; not the mere doing of duty: but the doing of something beyond duty; something which ...

... forth the devotion of Liberal working men was the fight for the liberty of the Press. During the agitation for the abolition of the stamp duty, hundreds of April 8, 18761 working men volunteered to sell unstampod papers in defiance of a bad law, and scores ...

... the only matter where it placed societies in a position less advantageous than they held before was the abolition of the exemption from stamp duties granted to friendly societies, the Government considering exemptions generally undesirable in the case ...