... should undertake the duty of distributor of !r-stamps. Questions of a complicated nature relative to he legacy and succession duties were not referred to the he distributor of stamps. He (witness) was not aware that athe amount of stamps in ...

... future to bear a halfpenny stamp, a stamp of double that value being affixed to boxes' of a larger size. As wax lights are a more aristocratic commodity, each box, however small it may be, is to bear a penny stamp; and a similar stamp must be affixed to boxes ...

... that it the very moderate D duties still levied on it there is a decrease of £95,000. . The diminished duty on tea is answerable for £190,000, ; while there is a fall of £10,000 in the duty on tobacco, it and £55,000 in the duty on wine, These losses arecoun-f ...

... in reference t. this and other matters were confirmed. STAMP DUTIES ON MARINE IN- SURANCE POLICIES. The commercial law committee presented a-re- port which stated a number of reasons why this duty was distinguished in an obnoxious and oppressive way from ...

... Chancellor of the Exchequer was lh willing to meet those wislhes by fixing the duty on wine at is. per gallon in casks and bottles alike; but whether. the entire abolition of the corn duty was contemplated. remanied to be seen..-Mr. Rawlins said lie supposed it ...

... prorernent. The question of a stamping depart- ment for Liverpool had for some time enraged the I attention of the committee, and on the 7th July . last the inland Revenue Department announced I thit the limit of stamping at the office in Victoria- st ...

... would be taken into consideration by the oounedlThat the new small stamp imposts are vexatious and oppressive to trade, and immoral in their operation. That the assessment of stamps on foreign trills the rate of 10s. per £1000 (instead of Is. per £100) ...

... wardecided upon, inue ant THE STAMP DUTY ON BILLS OF LADING. isepoh A eouinfrom the Newcastle and Gateshead chain gear sty, her, proposing a memorial to the Chsancellor of the- soc bat Exrhequer Iraing f or a reduction in the stamp duty en tef byel billsoo lading ...

... FOREIGN SPIRITS AT A T b iREDVCED DUTY. 'A deputation from the Irish and Scotch distillers waited on the Right Hon. -tho' Chancellor of the Ex- a chequer, to draw his attention to the effrct which the proposed reduction 6f duty on foreign spirits ad- w ?? ...

... his rival in the same trade. Their duty was to go for a low rate of postage, and give the pucharehriae, tod thoe whwould uaendeartaken itaI o rate. Theproceedings of the committee were confirmed, a THE SUGAR DUTIES. a Mr. MACFeE, M.P., pursuant to notice ...

... so at :9,39000, leaving a surplus of £64,000. l3e 3n n- proposed to increase the legacy and succession a: xd duties to the scale of the duties imposed si 72 in Queensland, Victoria, and South Autralia, as and this would give him £80,000 a i vear, being ...

... enter our humblest homes by abolition of window duty, Cleanliness noloqgerproscribod, soap being left free, none dissenting; nor do any need to be informed how knowledge was permitted to circulate by the abolition of the paper duty, so that by a free press ...