... last week wrote the Registrar-General, Edinburgh, for an extract, enclosing the fee, 3s Id, in postage stamps; but, to my astonishment, the stamps were returned, with a request to send a Post-Office Order. Greyhound Coursing. —At the South Lancashire ...

... THE SOUTHERN REPORTER, JANUARY 16, 1862 New Posrace Stamps.—On the 15th inst. (yesterday) and thenceforth postage stamps, Office. price 9d each, will be procurable at any Post- Tue OF Poor-RaTes BY TENANTS. —A case of scme interest to tenant farmers was ...

... the hill lambing is proving most satisfactory. A Cheque to bb no longer Valid Receipt. It is noted that the change the Stamp Duties proposed hy the Chancellor the Exchequer will have one important result, atiecting wide range of interests. The point was ...

... opposed the repeal of the Corn Laws, who it was reviled Sir Ih-berT IVel. who it was that opposed the repeal of the duty paper and the stamp on newspapers, the answer was Loid Beaconsfield. In regard all those matters had not come there sav that was a B ...

... Millfield Hill—each day at 11. Petty Customs (Scotland) Abolition Act Amendment.— Early on Saturday Mr Barclay obtained leave to introduce a bill to amend the Act 33 and 34 Victoria, chapter 42, fpr the abolition of petty customs. It consists of the following ...

... getting them confirmed by the Sheriff, gave rise to some discussion. Some of the members held that it was part of Mr Stewart’s duty as Town-Clerk to write out the bye-laws and get them confirmed, and it was agreed that the account be handed to the Finance ...

... follow. The Law as to Receipt Stamps.—A question having arisen as to whether it was necessary to affix a stamp to a receipt for £2 or upwards if payment was made by cheque, the difficulty was referred to the Comptroller of Stamps and Taxes in Edinburgh, who ...

... missed this for the Budget' The biggest sum of money, amounting to several thousand pounds, that has been paid since the tea duty scare just before Budget Day about five years ago, was handed over the London Customs T. J. Upton on Tea taken out of Bond ...

... exertions, but that was work done more outside than witbiu the discbarge of his municipal duties. As convener the Burial Ground Committee at time when the duties were new the Council, and a large amount of extra work required to be done. Bailie Munro set ...

... distributors and sub-distributors of stamps, inform* ing them that to keep dogs are to be plaoed in their hands for issue to the public. Owners dogs will obtain lioensee application to ony distributor or sub-distributor of stamps. answer several inquirers, we ...

... that Mr Hall be re-elected Provost, which being agreed to, Provost Hall took the chair, and said that he would discharge the duties to the best of his abilities. Mr Wood was elected First, Scott Second, and Mr Laidlaw Third Bailie. Bailie Scott, seconded ...

... questioner that it was the duty of the electors to see that their voting papers were stamped, otherwise the papers were useless. Several members considered it objectionable that the onus of seeing that the papers were stamped should be placed upon the ...