... pamphlet on clocks (free by post for two stamps) with dcirriptions and prices i enables those who live in aTg part of the world to select a clocx. Also a short pamphlet on Cathedr 1 end public cocks, tree for one stamp. Prize Medal and honourable mention in ...

... LONDON. WILLIAM J. TIAN, Secretary. ABOLITION OF MIN INSURANCE DUTY. PHORT-TIE POLICIES. THE GENERAL ASSURANCE COMPANY is nrepayed to is.ue SHORT-TIME POLICIES, charging Premium Duty up to the 24th of JUNE next, when the Duty ceases GEORGE SCOTT FREEMAN, Secretary ...

... 19. A bill has been proposed by the Minister of Finance for the modification of newspaper stamps and the abolition of the duty on advertisements, and of stamps or circulais containing advertisements. ...

... 1872, the gross public income of the United Kingdom was £74,708;8ff. The Customs' duties ptoduced £20,326,000; Excise, £23,326,p0, Stamps, £9,772,000; land tax and house dutY, £2,330000, property tax, £9,084,000, Post Office, £4,680,000, telegraph service ...

... an crease in the customs of 253,000—the loss , by reduction of duty on coffee having been inconsiderable—only £157,000; while the consumption had increased 8 per cent. In the Customs duties an augmentation was shown on spirits, tobacco, wine, and. sugar ...

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 and the sugar duties were reduced one-half; several small trade licenses were repealed; the impressed newspaper stamp was abolished and the postage on newspapers reduced to a halfpenny; a number of stamp duties were reduced, and the stamp ...

... of £4,031,000. (Cheers.) Now, for the manner in which he proposed to dispose of that surplus. He proposed.to reduce the stamp duty on the letting of small tenements for less than a year. The present tax was only 61, but it was proposed to reduce it to ...

... Consolidated Fund charges .. 1,780,000 Army (not including Abolition of chase) . , 14,824,000 Nay- - 9,508,000 CiviTSorvioe Revenue Departments .. Post Office Telegraphs Packet Service .. Abolition of Purchase . 10,652,000 2',61,000 2;610;000 .. 600,000 ...

... inhabited houses and shops, £lOO,OOO of the tax on male servants £50,000 of th e li cense duty on dogs, £50,000 of that on horses, £lOO,OOO out of the stamp duties, and some £B,OOO at most out of the income tax; or in all about £500,000 out of an aggregate ...

... reference to stamp duties is : (41 templated, involving, with an abolition of :C . ariety of occasional charges on deeds and the.r instruments, au equalisation of the duties inland and foreign bills of exchange, and a twen.eral consolidation of the ...

... Insurance-building, North John-street, Liverpool. CAPITAL, TWO MILLIONS STERLING In an'icipation ot the total abolition of Fire Insurance Duty, as proposed by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and which will no doubt, receive the hearty- approval of the ...

... 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 ...