... cannot be dispensed with, then let the silver ~are be assayed sad stamped in this country b. fore it has baen highly finished. woulo hardly necess.tey to speak of the abolition of the imeort duty to a Government which 11114 shown itself a sincere admirer of ...

... the duties should adopt the argument, and urge it strongly, that no drawback is requisite; that the payment of a drawback to the holders of silver goods on the abolition of the duty whllj be simply iniquitous, in view of the fact that, where duties on ...

... be a Map in the right dined's; bsl India, has bad the total abolition of lbw cotton import duties thrust down her throat, cannot be satisfied until the total abolition of the Inglish import duty on RIM goods is sesured. The Of mires should should submit ...

... and do their utmost to stamp out obnoxious confessional practices. The solution of the difficulty is, however, far from being so simple u his lordship seems to fancy. The Church already recognises in her formularies the duty in certain circumstances ...

... customs, excise, salt and assessed taxes, for stamps can hardly be oonsidered, at present, capable of increase. Indeed, it has been found necessary to take measures for reducing the rates of judicial stamps, from which latter source, moreover, the Government ...

... Liverpool, Registration of Partnerships, Proposed Abolition of Imprisonment for Debt, Stowaways Bill, the Indian Merchant bhipping Bill, the Indian Companies Bill, Small Cause Courts Bill, Stamp Duties on Foreign Bills of Lading, Rules for the Coasting ...

... right to the duty; and if there be a means of evading the stamp duty, so much the better for those who can evade it. It is no fraud upon the Crown ;it is a thing which the parties are perfectly entitled to do. The Crown cannot have the stamp ...

... Coen'. valuable eatlection of stamps has been stolen, loot this is ■ot the case. The faot is that two lots of stamps valued at about Rs. WI, which were being oiroulated by the assuii Stamp Club. were stolen ; one lot of 133 stamps after the packet lets Lady ...

... by which the grant w in ale was held by the Collector of the Lahor District to be liable to a stamp duty of Hs. 75. This gave rise to a question under the Stamp Act as to whether it was an instrument of gift or a dead of trust—a question which has exercised ...

... the whole duty on tea at Home, and the Warehouse Ring disappears. There seems to be no probability of this abolition in the immediate future, and all that can be suggested is a revolutionary nietliod of levying this duty. A fourpenny excise stamp should ...

... a year. Another reduction which, we think, might be made without any detriment to the efficiency of the service, is the abolition altogether of the appointment of Military Secretary, for the work that is performed by that officer could be much better ...

... say that they are not yet continued that the time is rape fur a movement in favour of the abolition or reduction of the duty on tea in Englund, or that the abolition is in the best interests of the producers. They will, however, continuo to collect inforaatiot ...