... reduce the duty for letting small tenements from 6d. to a Id. He proposed to réduce the duty on appraisements, and to relieve the special pleaders and conveyancers by putting them on the same footing as attorneys. He proposed also to reduce the stamp duties ...

... his short life in laboeurs, without fee or reward, ®er the abolition of capital punishment and the reforma‘ion of our criminal code; the repea! of the newspaper, stamp, and advertisement duties; the extension of means of education to the poor, and kindred ...

... been prominently connected with journalism, and was a witness before the Parliamentary Committee concerning the abolition of the stamp duty. He established the Spalding Free Press 49 years ago. Formerly he was also proprietor of the Sleaford Gazette, and ...

... conscientions discharge of their duty by exposing them. Against the maintenance of such a system, involving THE SYSTEMATIC INFRINGEMENT OoF THE MoRAL PRINCIPLE, it is hoped that every Taxpayer will be impelled by a sense of Moral duty to enter his indignant protest ...

... been removed by the repeal of the | Advertisement Act in 182, of the Stamp Act in 1855, l and in 1866 the last blow was dealt at the censorship | by the abolition of the paper duty. In his opinion, | freedom of speech should not be confined exclusively ...

... The increase can be traced mainly to incometax, customs, post office and telegraphs, whilst the revenues from excise and stamps has been less than was expected. On the side of expenditure there has been an increase of £2,365,000 on that of the preceding ...

... the shackles by which the Press was weighted —the repeal first of the advertisement duty, l the abolition of the compulsory stamp, and , the extinction of the paper duty—there came I a development of journalism which within the last quarter of a century ...

... labours of the committee the new stamps are entirel y distinct from each other. The halfpenny stamp is printed on white in an orange red colour. The penny stamp remains as at present. The larger portion of the three-halfpenny stamp is inpurple, with the smaller ...

... Rumbold, who lights thesstove fires and attends to the heating of the church, entered the edifice and proceeded with his duties. He had lighted both the furnaces, and at half-past 8 o’clock was about to satisfy himself of the degree of temperature in ...

... Where do we find that * ribald press” which it was confidently predicted we should have when the stamp duty was removed, and again, when the paper duty came off? The middle and working classes of this country owe an immense debt of gratitude to the cheap ...

... equally to their engagement with the Ameer and to their duty to their country if they listen for a moment to any such unblushingly worthless pleas as those put forward by the Pall Mall Gazette. 1t is the duty of Russia to retire to the position whicli she held ...

... result in serions Pulmonary and Asthmatic affec. tions. See that the words ‘‘ Brown’s Brouchial Troches” are on the Government Stamp around each box.—Prepared by Joux 1. BrowN & Soxs, Boston, U.B. European depot, 33, Farringdon Road, London. SPALDING DIVISION ...