... unfair and unjust means are bad, while the Government acknowledges that the advertisement duty is unequal, therefore unjust; bad, and to be abandoned. The duty on paper heavy, but not much heavier than other taxes, which press severely upon those who ...

... KNOWLEDGE. Under this very imposing title >Society has betfn got up for the purpose of procuring the abolition of the Stamp Duty, the Advertisement Duty, and the Duty on Paper. We confess we have no sympathy with the movement whatever. It ...

... of Finance brought a in bill re-imposing the stamp duty on newspapers, on the principle some time since described. The motive for the measure is stated to be merely financial one. The abolition of the duty in 1848 caused a considerable loss to the revenue ...

... first place, the abolition of the soap duty, and considerable changes in the stamp duty, including a reduction of the duties upon life assurance, uniform penny stamp for receipts and other mstru.nents he ...

... were absolutely necessary, to pav all the Chancery officers hy salaries, and provide that the fees excepted should paid as stamp duties. Further, the suitors in Chancery were to relieved from the payment of 'he salaries of the Chancellor and the other Chancery ...

... strictly private. It has pleased bis Imperial Highness, Prince Louis Napoleon, to order his image and superscription to be stamped upon the current coin of the realm over which he presides. The obverse is to bear an emblematic similitude of La Republique ...

... and Is. for the stamp In excess of the sum charged by the fire-ortico as au equivalent for the risk. Then, suppose five tradesmen who Insured in fire different olHces 1,000/. each. They paid ss. for their policy stamps and 7L 10s. for duty. Hut suppose workmen ...

... tax upon property and professions; and two others for the regulation of the Inland Revenue, and the assimilation of the duties of Stamps. Passing by multitude of important enaetm ent§ for the preservation of the Public Health, in the metropolis an 4 elsewhere ...

... laws affect- ing the newspaper stamp and periodical press are ill defined and unequally enforced, and demanded the early consideration of parliament, It is expected this will lead to the entire abolition of the Stamp duty, substituting a postage charge ...

... will be issued next month. By the bill before Parliament attorneys will be freed from the duty of 5/. annually, and it is supposed that the enormous 1101. stamp duty on their apprentices indentures will be expunged. It is hoped their c.ients will be also ...

... deprived. We have long looked upon the paper duty as an objectionable impost, whose removal should be obtaincd, and we would ourselves make sacrifices that literature might be unfettered. But the repeal of this duty sccompanied with the other changes projected ...

... property of lunatics bill, the stamp duties (Ireland) bill, the apprehension of derserters from foreign ships bill, and the turnpike ro ids (Ireland) bill, were respectively,read a second time. The masters in chancery abolition bill, the improvement of the ...