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... the year's receipt, for mo less than 15 personal estates exceeding £300,000 paid duty, as contrasted with nine in 18392-03. Estate Duty.—See above remarks. Legacy Duty.—The receipt fell considerably short of what was anticipated. qt was exgeoted that ...
... 000 a year to do nothing but talk. They had had to pay £40,000 a year for the last three or four years for the legislative duties of members of Parliament, If they bad a dificulty in finding members of Parliament, then they might have to pay special prices ...
... responsibility for the automatic increases of the noneffective vote, which, he says, is almost entirely the resnlt of the abolition of * Purchase,” and that mensare, as he reminds us, the duke resolutely opposed. Well, at any rate, he did not as Comman ...
... peovle can remember the abolition ot slavery in the West Indies: the enactment of penny postage ; the repeal of the Corn Laws by Sir Robert Peel: the repeal of the duty on paper, and of the stamp on the newspaper; the abolition of the purchase system in ...
... property in the Orkney and Shetland Islands. The deputation who waited upon Lord Salisbury for the purpose of suggesting the abolition of the Lord-Lientenancy as it at present exists were reminded that this could not be done without legislation, and that it ...
... 1891. The returns from this source would appenr to account for nearly the whole sum of £841,000 by which the sevenue from stamps in the quarter ending March 31, 1892, exceeded the amount received in the first quarter of last year. Tug volunteers have ...
... expressed a honuut Miss Bryne was dead, adding, “ 1 brousht the knife away with me from the workhouse. It has ¢ Stramd (Inion' stamped on it, and you will find it in one of the areas in the square.” At the end of a two days’ trial, when insanity was pleaded ...
... LEGGE, Sculptor, ABERDEEN. P D B H( )W to CURE NERVOUSNESS & DEBILITY, and S:' rewain lost hesith, strengin, and vigcur Free 3 stamps. Address MeplcUs, 7, Tavistock St., Bedford Sq.. Londone News has been received at Berlin from Zanzitar announcing that a ...
... word for everything, a good story, once current in Oxford, appears now for the first time in print. At college, it was his duty as a Fellow to read the Lessons in chapel, and one day he read, by mist ake, the second Lesson where he should have read the ...