... Such would inevitably be the result, as regards! the newspaper press, from the abolition of the advertisement duty, the halfpenny stamp on supplements, and the excise duty on paper. As regards the trade and the public at large: the enormous increase in ...

... year, the abolition of the duty on bricks, and the reduction of the stamp duties, rewarded the financial agitation ; and this year another handsome Surplus stands for appropriation. .. This surplus will of course be applied to the abolition ...

... retention of a duty upon advertisements newspapers. resisting the motion for the repeal the duty on Attorneys' Certificates, Mr. Gladstone told the House that since they had repeatedly announced their wish for the total repeal of the Advertisement-duty, and since ...

... THE PAPER-DUTY REPEAL BILL. HEREFORD, MAY 19, 1860 wanted another modern instance of the ofthe old saw that, politics as well as Ijj v -ncs, extremes meet, we should find in «P ' proceeding threatened by the Tory c ourae H r -duty Repeal Bill ...

... 3Jd. Stamped. In the early part] of the year, before the repeal of the paper duty, the, price was 3d. for an unstamped, and 4d. for a stamped copy ; in reducing the price one halfpenny, we are giving the public the full benefit of the abolition of that ...

... since the abolition of the stamp duty but while the stamps have decreased by hmulruls, the unstamped sheets have increased thousands. To effect this double action of decrease and increase has been our aim ever since the abolition of the ...

... Your petitioners, therefore, humbly pray of vow Honorable that the uniform stamp duty upon ■ all fire policies may be reduced from one shilling to one penny. That the amount of duty now chargeable upon all fire policies may be repealed. Or that it may be ...

... Woods and Forests. THE REPEAL THE BRICK-DUTY. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER explained that he proposed to give a drawback of per cent, the duty on the stock of bricks on hand, and to make the abolition of the duty immediate on all bricks mad.; henceforward ...

... subject of the Stamp Duties Bill, said ■*hat w ■ Wou d levied by the bill now before the house beyond .' m posed in the Bchedule which had passed through comJihitt gome considerable discussion, the house went into Pot e( j v, ee the Stamp Duties, and on the ...

... reduction: the duty on foreign coffee and the timber-duties to be reduced one-half, with the substitution of house-tax for the window-tax. The anticipated loss was thus stated by Sir Charles Wood :— Coffee and Timber £400,000 Window-duty 1,186,000 Total ...

... £ ex Pect, cause many other bills to share the same Newspaper Stamp Duties Act, to decide the s What is a Newspaper has been read but nothing has been determined or said bether the duties on advertisements shall be re- sixpence, being one-third of the ...

... the 6th of May for bill to abolish the office of Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. STAMP DUTIES—DEFEAT OF MINISTERS. On the motion of the House going into Committee on the Stamp Duties Bill, The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER entered into a preliminary explanation ...