... shows an increase in this branch of revenue, and the year one of £965,77S. The abolition of the Newspaper Stamp is the main cause of the reduction under the head of Stamps. The falling off in the Post Office receipts and in the Assessed Taxes is easily ...

... yielded £1,902,787, all other items (except House Duty) showing Decreases. The decrease of £1,004,750 in stamps is stated to have been chiefly due to the decline in the receipt of legacy and succes- sion duties as compared with the very large receipt in 1892-93 ...

... GLaADsromc's first financial year, and by his great Budget, lie reduced the duties on Tea, Sugar, Stamps, and Newspapers, with some of the Assessed Taxes; and he entirely abolished the duties on Soap, Adver- tisements, and a host of 2ninor articles. At the saime ...

... -The French Committee of Emancipation and the Committee of the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society, feel it to be their duty to take advantage of the presence in Parisof yourHighness, respectfully to call your attention to a question to the eolution ...

... addressed by you on the 9th inst., to the Chancelor of the Exchequer, request. isg, with reference to the proposed abolition of the duties on wood and timber, that the officers of customs may be authorised to continue to measure wood goods as hereto- fore-a ...

... are described as improving. ABOLITION OF I2NTIESNAL DUTIES IN ME XICO. H3itherto not only lhave there been leanv Federal import duties in Mexico, but the various States and mlnieipalities hLave also impposed separ-ate duties on the entry of goods into ...

... giving the legislative Chamber control over the items of each Budget may, together with the new stamp taxes and the increase on the salt and sugar duties, cause an equilibrium to he attained and preserved. The immediate gain from the conversion of the ...

... other taxue on houses besides the inhabited house duty. There is the income-tax upon houses, which produces upwards of £1,000,000. A certain portion of the stamp dutioe on deeds, of the succession duty, and of the probatedduty bears upon houses, and amounts ...

... Chancellor of the Exchequer said that if the old duties continued, and at the same rate of production, he might calculate upon a revenue of £70,170,000 for the year 1803-01; but, as he remitted duties calculated to lose him £3,778,000 in the year, this ...

... forcibly im- ZN, pressed US, that this question-th e abolition of the opium ?? trade-so single in its object, so easily presented before the dt, public, resting oni such clear and certain grounds of moral -duty, i the key to the great and vexed question of Indian ...

... appointed to inquire into the opera- tion of the newspaper stamp duty lis presented its report. It consists of five articles, the first of which provides that from the first of January next the stamp duty upon news- papers shall be abolished. Article 2 makes ...

... with, that deficiency must be considerably is augmented. )f With reference to the duty on hops there is no small d difference of opinion. That a reduction or abolition of al tax, conceived and carried out in the spirit of a gambler, is d desirable, we ...