... 000. He proposed to make good this by making changes in the probate, succession, and legacy duties, that would give him i' 300,000, and imposing a stamp duty on matches at the rate «f one-halfpenny per box of 100 ; Id. on 100 aristocratic wax lights, ...

... considered a great success. It is to remembered however, that tile system followed result of the agitation for the abolition of the penny stamp newspapers. Wliile the cards are'being made great use of business matters, regret to have received complaints of ...

... Reform Bill, the He- LiuiiT Wises.—Although the eonsump ioa oflight mnee h» trebled in BogUod eiooe the reduction of the rate duty, they here not et present taken the poaition te beverages of daily and general consumption that «o may confidently anticipate ...

... in this county, and they had communicated on the question with both the High flinsoff and the Under Sheriff. It ' being the duty of the Sheriff to summon on the Grand Jury the chief men of the county. irrespective of the fact of their being or not being ...

... rather than def ended the tax. He admitted that while the Railway Passenger Duty produced I:400,000, the Carriage Duty produced over £550,000 a year, and he admitted that the duty ultimately fell on the manufacturer, that is, of course, not only the carriage ...

... direct ©! r indirect taxation. bankers’ chec! y stamp he proposed the exemption B hitherto gran! ted tol ban! kers’ customers drawing money over the counter for ‘‘self.” He ued that any sug- mentation of the duty on malt, spirits, tea, or sugar, would press ...

... ter*e but emphatic terms, and every in Court appeared heartily to sympathise with bis remarks upon the injury which the abolition of the Homo Circuit would inflict upon the localities in ita jurisdiction in which crime was committor). The Grand Jury made ...

... re that the duties were not protective • th ey b ed noon to do with the poor clauses' in had ho no humanitarian or other part of India ; and, therefor e , h e cry would be rai se d% The ember for Guildford very properly that these duties bad bad nothing ...

... had sent him Parliament, and thdft broke one of hit pledgo. Because when ought have been engaged im his Parliamentary duties, be stamping the country, speaking for, and otherwise advocating the claim* of man to public patronage, who at the time was, under ...

... that I must either stamp or dieeontinue. Ou looking at the Act I found that any paper, two numbers of which were published within 26 days of each other, and containing only or principally advertisements, was a newspaper, and liable to duty. I therefore decided ...

... you which day he would inspect the roads? —The Surveyor : No.—Mr. Rea : I think he ought to have done so. He did not do his duty (hear, hear). Mr. Alderman Stedman thought it would he advantageous if a steam-roller were used on the Ockford Road—The Surveyor ...

... remarks at King’s Lynn the other day. ‘Tne campaign on behalf of the repeal of the not that the removal of this obnoxious im- Hop Duty has already been begun, and we doubt post will be very strongly urged upon the Chan. vellor of the Exchequer, both before and ...