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... ABOLITION OF THE PAPER TAX. THE EXETER: FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER 27, 1861. As the Paper Tax will he repealed next Tuesday, Oct. lst., we shall reduce the price of The Western Times to TWO PENCE HALFPENNY, Unstamped. The Stamped Copies, to go by Post, will be ...
... NEWSPAPER STAMP RETURNS. The Exeter Gazette is boasting of its circulation of stamped papers. Since our reduction price to One Penny, our interest lies abridging the use of the impressed stamp. got no moro profit on a stamped paper than we do on an unstamped ...
... SIR STAFFORD NORTHCOTE, AND THE OXFORD TESTS ABOLITION BILL. We were unable last week to find room for the speech delivered by Sir S. Northcote, on Mr. Dodson's Bill for the abolition of Tests at Oxford University. We now append a fuller report:— Sir ...
... ABOLITION OF FIRE INSURANCE DUTY. BRITISH EMPIRE MUTUAL FIRE ASSURANCE COMPANY, New Bridge-street, London. Established introduce the system of mutual tire assurance in this country, which has been found so advantageous America, and the Continent. Guaranteed ...
... ion. It appeared that the original bill was given on shilling stamp, but Mr. Hawker, the attorney, who advanced the money, conceiving that under the circumstances a four and sixpenny stamp was necessary, accordingly got second bill, returning the first ...
... THE DUTY ON ADVERTISEMENTS. A ceitain clique of politicians and a certnin class of journalists, are raising a clamour for the abolition of the stamp duty on newspapers and the advertisement duty. With the cant on this subject, which fills ...
... The petitions against Church Rate Abolition, without an equivalent, are 136, with 5, signatures. A railway train, weighing eight tons, has lately crossed the Potomac river (America) on the ice. On Saturday the students Manschal College and University ...
... Stamp Repeal.—I hear upon good says the correspondent of the Cambridge Press, wj ( at this momenta project is on foot amongst the men lew aye been most active in the movement against the Paper stamp duty, to start a penny or twopenny daily to appear at ...
... Stock and Implement* ss. per cent. No estra •barge for Thrashing by Steam. Tbe Government Duty on all Inaurano is is now repealed. charge made for Policy Stamps. PROVIDENT LIFE OFFICE, established in tbe aame year and under the same management, has been ...
... Highway Rates. — The maintenance of highways essentially a national interest and duty The population of rural districts is 10,500,000 located on 34,135,000 acres of land. The population of the urban districts is 15,400>,000, located on 3,184,000 acres ...
... Emigrants to Canada.—The * ment have .announced that they propose j J. capitation duty of present Jy^' f passenger or immigrant above the age c cl/j--impose, instead, a duty of for each * grant above that age arriving in any v^%ae(S ! 1 under the sanction ...
... theiutroduction of the reduced duties, French wines in particular, which contributed to the consumption to the extent of 20 per cent, as compared with other wines; and it is stated that Mr. Gladstone's system of assessing the duties on wines according to strength ...