... passed resolution in favour 'of '’abolishing* Government duty, the conclusion to reduce the duty aay, that instead of paying *. per upon thn«o Policies, would rctluce it to is. ou-, the policy stamp, which was befoto charged Is, S£l to Id; this reduction ...

... the two editions the same paper. The duty alone thus amounted to 7s. ‘ Among the objects successfully accomplished in groat part the advocacy of tho Athenaeum may be nomca tho abolition the Stamp Duty and of that on paper. The whole of tho profit was ...

... required income bo propo.-cd equalise the duties on Irish and British spirits, abolishing the only remaining differential duty still cxi-ting in the sister isle. Tho new tax which he should suggest was a small stamp duty of one penny -bankers’ cheques, from ...

... additional revenues, ho could think of better expedient than adding 10 per cent, to all Customs duties. Sir Robert Peel followed with the sweeping abolition of 1842, that laid the foundation the clear sweep of 1860. Bernal Osborne, on the first debate ...

... reduction of tbe duty on tea wss this, that present it was a much heavier duty than the corresponding duty on sogar. The duty on tea was more than 100 per cent.; tbe duty on sugar was about one-half the value of the article. By reducing the ...

... period of Is year includes one day more than the present accoui and as the Customs revenue is heavily affected 1, the abolition the sugar duty, the fact of decrease compared with last year of course a real augmentation. In Excise there is actu: increase £186 ...

... to.—The tenth resolution, relating to tho imposition of a stamp duty on agreements for letting furnished houses for less than year, was taken next and agreed to. —The ninth, imposing stamp duty of on licenses for house agents, was next taken and agreed ...

... name was the alleged utience, would here state that was done matter duty the parish ollicers—and until Mr. substantiates his claim the churchwardenship, they will feci it their duty wherever occasion requires. Mr. will call at the residence of either ...

... 000. Then there would be a duty of 6s. cwt. on chicory, yieldinc £90,000. There would be penny stamps and 3d. stamps on certain trade eating-houses, including pastrycooks, would be allowed licenses to sell wine or beer. The duty on game certificates would ...

... Gladstone proposes to con’ tinne the tea and sugar duties, and, as we have sad, i the income tax the rates of 9d. and 6d. asks to double the duty on chicory, he proposes certain modifii cations of the stamp duties, and be fondly hopes to [ receive three-quarters ...

... before June. 1860, brought him several papers, with instructions, and witness made stamps according to said instructions. They formed a counterfeit Post-i ffice stamp, such as appeared in the paper produced. Witness supplied type letters for tbe words ...

... every forty or fifty days; but besides the Djidda carries on no land trade, except occasionally with N. Yemen for com. The duties upon com were formerly 7$ per cent; they are now double that amount; those upon Indian goods are from 6 to 10 per cent, according ...