... subjected to a penny stamp; so might checks drawn in the country upon London bankers, the proceeds of which would make up the loss of abolishing receipt stamps. The CHANCELLOR of the observed that the sole ground upon which the abolition of this tax was sought ...

... with stamp duty at the time of its being issued, and cannot other meow. Reimers had mashed him that have a stamp added to it at any time afterwards; benee, would he adopted, bet he could not believe that any of neosesity, the words imposing a duty on such ...

... were carried round bearing the well known verse, Ephniim reign nations. Should either Power lineman an inland duty on any article, a heliport duty V a ll i 110 1 f Uttsh shall as surance , ' t i.:ll impeee.l raloren payable in France or Algeria. ill; all ...

... the certificate duty to be reduced from £l 2 and £8 to £4 and /Mend the duty on articles of elerkship from £l2O to £BO. Advertisement duties to be reduced from Is 6d to 6d, and, instead of taking off the balance, to take off the stamp upon newspaper ...

... , is swallowed up in this inscrutable vortex of Government taxes. The repeal of the Advertisement Duty, and the abolition of the Newspaper Penny Stamp, at once show the beneficial tendency of removing all taxes upon Knowledge. The House, last night, ...

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... India in default of heirs-natural. The Law of Property Amendment Bill passed through Committee. The Customs Duty (No. 2) Bill, the Excise Duties Bill, and the Exchequer Bonds (2,000,0001) Bill were read a third time and passed. In the House of Commons ...

... subject, the thing has not fallen to the ground without result. The Committee recommend two practical measures—the abolition of the penny stamp now affixed to each newspaper sheet, and the conference of a limited copyright on whatever appears in the columns ...

... Exchequer, in reply to a question from Mr 'Nicoll having reference to the new Stamp Act, said that it was the practice of the Bank of England to refuse payment of a cheque the stamp of which had not been cancelled; and he expressed a hope that the other banks ...

... were pursued. At first the differentiil duty upon brandy was abolished, surrendering £446.000, but in July the duties were raised, which reduced the loss to the revenue to £46,003 only, whilst the increased duties on the other spirits made an actual increase ...

... and to ch arge duty of 1 per cent, on all railway receipts, including those for goods' traffic—to reduce the income-tax to 4d per £l, and the duty by 50 per cent. With regard to the stamp duties, he proposes to abolish the progrmaive duty, ...

... Control, and giving to the department a permanent Secretary; the other, a proposal of Sir John Pakington's, for the abolition of the duty on salt—a long standing grievance though lately modified. It wrought in this way:— The original cant of salt to the ...