... Packet berrlce Abolition of Purchase. Total JF71.315.050 This is J 81,423,000 less than tbeaotnal grants of last year, and admitting that the supplemental Estimates this year may be .£400,000. as they were last year, there will be considerably over redooGon ...

... watch- cases—to commence on July Bth. The abolition of the licence for playing cards dates from Sep- tember 2nd. The ninth resolution abolishes the stamp duties for policies of insurance, and substitutes a stamp duty of ld. This measure will ...

... comparatively unimportant items in the national accounts. The salvation of the Budget depends on the Customs and Excise Duties, the Stamp Receipts, and the Income Tax, and, considering the com- mercial character of the current twelvemonth, Mr. Gladstone will ...

... present bill comes into force at 15,000f. M. Segris, the Minister of Finance, stated before the Stamp Committee that he was in favour of the abolition of the stamp duty on news- papers, and the substitution of an increase of 2c. for the postal tax on political ...

... French Governments tho subject of Passports would be laid on tbe table, but be saw no immediate prospect of tbe abolition of Passports, or of tbe duty now charged upon British subjects entering French territory. From this answer wo may conclude that Her Majesty’s ...

... establishment of a system of graduated death duties, on the basis of the abolition of the present duties, aud the creation, in their place, of a new estate duty chargeable on every class of property passing at death — whether realty or personalty — at the following ...

... Customs had risen over the Estimate, .£953,000 ; the. Excise, £2.495,000;. Stamps, .£247,000; Income Tax, £560.000 j Post Office, £50,000; and Telegraphs, £600,0001 In the Excise Duties, Spirits alone stood for an increase of £1,370,000, the total receipts ...

... In the first place, the stamps on powers of attorney affecting the public funds are wholly exceptional, and their abolition would be justified, just as the existing special rates are justified, just as the absence of stamp duty on tbe tiansfer of shares ...

... to the working classes required, and/if th^. were to be further reductions of indirect takes, he suggested some of the Stamp Duties. As to the Income Tax, if it was to be continued in its present un- favourable shape, he would support the motion ; but ...

... that the accumulative power of tbe country is rapidly in the ascendant, and that its impetus is partly due to the abolition of the duty on bricks, partly to the reform of the Customs tariff. In tbe first decade of the present reign the number of houses ...

... (hear). The Chancellor of the Exchequer said it was the duty of the government to pass the bill on matches, and at the same time to prepare the stamp for the purpose. He was informed the stamps cost less than .£lOOO. sterling THE NEW BUDGET. On the motion ...

... equalisation of ttie spirit duties ; the abolition ot the soap duties; the introduction ofthe penny receipt stamp; the reduction of the tax on cabs aud hackney coaches, and the equalisa- tion of the assessed taxes. Altogethei the duty on 123 ...