... industries left absolutely in the hands of private individuals or firms, whose resources are heavily handicapped by the abolition of Import duties, and the consequent encourage. mint offered to foreign manufacturers. It will be sufficient for our purpose, if ...

... Succession Act, when it originally imposed this obligation, made its discharge comparatively easy and light, charging a nominal Stamp Duty of Rs. 8. Act 7 of 1870, however, has swelled the charge to 2 per cent. on the full market value of the whole estate. The ...

... and manufacturers ; but, as the Millowners Association remaiks, if the cotton duties are abolished, this must be effected simultaneously with the abolition of import duties on other ordinary articles of trade. w'SiliV , l that it will supply a much felt ...

... bring false stamping within reach of the Penal Cods; but it will be against deceptive stamping and folding, where the name of the measure is stamped on the cloth at all. This trick is even more (minim' and successful than false stamping, and it can ...

... Bills of Lading from foreign ports quired an India Stamp of 4 ammo, and the Collector of Sea Customs having intimated that no such Bills of Lading could be accepted at the Custom House unless so stamped. the Chamber appealed to the Bengal and Bombay Chambers ...

... consequently if the exemption limit was raised so as to exclude this class then abolition was thepracticalresult. It was, he said, a fallacy to suppose that in the e%ent of the abolition of the income tax, the nen-oflicsial community would contribute very little ...

... British manufacturer to keep foreign plate out of the market. We are glad to observe that petitions, not only for the abolition of duty, but also for the repeal of the other obnoxious restrictions, have been prepared in England, and a correspondent to the ...

... unnecessary. Some writers say that it has been rendered nenessaary by the abolition of import duties. Perhaps it has, and eertninly more one-soled measure than this same abolition was ever taken connection with Indian finance. It benefited only Manchester ...

... nt of Stamps and Stationery might be abolished, and that the duties now discharged by that officer might to transferred to the Collector of Madras. It would suppress the Coronership, and require the Presidency Magistrates to conduct the duties of Coroner ...

... trained in the performance of their duties ; who had no one to look to for guidance; and whose preferment 1111118 in the hands of the Head of a different Department, who himself had no knowledge of how those duties should be performed. The result of such ...

... Tariff. The revenue realized by the sale of Stamps amounted to the res. pectable sum of Rs. 50,23,445, of which Es. 32,62,113 was derived from judicial, and the remainder from non-judicial stamps. The stamp revenue shows an increase of about three per ...

... added in the tail of the resolution two novel provisions which have evoked • general cry of Shame, ! I allude to the abolition of gracle officiating promotions and the paradox, cruel as unprecedented, that permanent promotions would in the future ...