... total amount reduced in Income tax and tea duties amount to £3,200,000. In addition to these large reductions, Mr. Gladstone proposes to dispose of £143,000 of the surplus by the abolition of the eighteenpenny stamp on bills of lading and by the penny charge ...

... From that time its proprietor never looked back. The abolition of the advertisement doty in quickly doubled the receipts from that source; and when two years later the taking off of the stamp duty enabled the paper to be reduced to twopence there was ...

... His estimate of the revenue for the present year, then, was for Customs £20,740.000; Excise, £28,090,000; Stamps. £10,880,000; land tax and house duty, £2,360.000; income tax, £6,500,000; Post Office, £5,300,000; telegraphs. £1,260,000; Crown lands, £376 ...

... which was likewise nega- Sir J. obtained leave to bring In'a Bill reoeal so much the Act George 111 cap. 184, as Imposes® stamp duty of 6s. on certificates of marriage, and of persons having received the Holy Sacrament Sir C. O’Loghlen moved the second ...

... importance; Where do we find that “ribald ' press which it was confidently predicted should have when the stamp duty was removed, and again, when the paper duty came off,? The middle and working classes of this country owe an immense debt gratitude to the cheap ...

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... the lesson mere question of Church es’ablishroent, be stamped that if in county and in constituency such upm one gr«de of men, aod that minority, this you arc to succeed, that each individual man stamp, as were, of superior elas*. and upon the who has earnest ...

... It, and a quantity more of the same kind which perfectly true of every stamp duty hat was ever levied. (Dear. hear). As we must have taxation, we think the small addition the duty payable succeasloD to property an equitable tax to which no rcaionable ...

... in cotiUmplati the House f ('ummonn in which, aft**r allusion made to th** rnoru.-.a* increase in their duties owing v fMMtal carls and half stamps, the petitioners pray that hh ' F’arl atr.tnt eL-uld he pasted came ;nglo and I was t-. have “letter box-e ...

... proposa for the total abolition of the rites. Several member; who might agree to commutation might perhap! object to abolition. To those who might say i would weaken the Church, he would ask was the iri Church weakened by the abolition of church cesa ; ...

... the Berkshire Camp. dilated upon some of the military and p.>litical less.ms of the late w«r, and also adverted to the abolition Purchase La Ware thuncht that the iJuvermneut had acted * n modi!) Inn the uricina! plan. Lord Tnirusai.l that the Government ...

... assuming new tenure, and to all intents and puq»ose9 an incoming tenant; and this that the government may exact a certain sum stamp duty on the new contract, or, in other words, impose inevitable tax, under the apparent guise of a voluntary arrangement. Now ...