... paper duty. He was sorry to say that at a meeting of this association on Thursday in last week, a Mr. Holyoake moved that thetaxes on knowledge, viz., the newspaper stamp aud advertisement duties, should be connected with the repeal of the paper duty in ...

... THE ADVERTISEMENT DUTY AND THE LEGAL PROFESSION. a curious coincidence the duty on Attorneys' Certificates and the Advertisement Duty amount to the same sum, being £80,000 in each case, and the claimants for repeal both invoke the Chancellor of the ...

... suggestion as to the Receipt Stamp duties las our approval only on the supposition that we must still have any tax at all upon the transactions ;o which these duties pertain. The plan proposed Is that there should be a uniform penny stamp for ■eceipts on payments ...

... House of Commons against the unqualified abolition of this ancient parochial charge and ecclesiastical district in England ale*. Let; the clergy look to this : they will be the first to suffer by church-rate abolition. . . .„ . The Church Institution (4, ...

... claiming the duty on third-chlss passengers conveyed ini fast trains, which, in the opinion of the Association, the Legislature did not contemzplate should be charged. As Mir. Gladstone was aware, the earlier Acts of Parliament imposed duties on stage car- ...

... more acceptable boon to the community than the reduction ofthe hitherto exorbitant Duty upon Tea, which conies into operation this day (June a graduated reduction of duties, every advantage is effectually secured tho consumer—avoiding the drawbacks arising ...

... the first duty of statesman who sets himself to grapple with the subject The reformation of the offender is, of course, an important object to be kept in view in dealing with the criminal classes. But charity begins at home ; and the first duty of society ...

... classes. Its scale of charges for Advertisements moderate, having been reduced since the abolition of the Advertisement Duty. When prepaid, which can be done postage stamp-. Advertisements of lines, or 30 words, are inserted for Is. fid., md lines, or 6 ' ...

... trades have done, how wondertufly cheapness increases demand. In all the great centres of population since the abolition of the mewspaper stamps, an almost fabulous increase has taken place in the circulation of newspapers ; in London, Manchester, Dublin ...

... July 19. A bill has been proposed by the Minister Finance for the modification of newspaper stamps and the abolition of the duty on advertisemente and of stamps for circulars containing ments. AMERICA. [By Atlantic Telegraph.) New York, July 18, 6 p.» ...

... several Years past executed the duties of an Agent and Correspondent in * variety of Business pursuits, has determined to devote his time and attention exclusively to matters connected with Legal Agency, aa well aa the duties of a correspondent and Agent ...

... HOLLAND. Tae HAcug, March 13,—The Second Chamber has approved by 41 votes against 31, a bill for the abolition of the newspaper stamp duty both upon home and foreign journals. The bill is to take effect from the 30th of June, ...