... Stamp Duty. Mr. THOMPSON asked whether coupons issued railway companies for the payment of their debenture interest were rendered liable to the stamp duty of one penny by the new Stamp Act; or whether, iu the opinion of the law' officers of ...

... STAMP DUTIES BILL. On the third reading of the Stamp Duties Bill, Sir H. CAIRNS suggested that:the stamp duty imposed by the bill on contracts for the sale of stock was not warranted by the resolution. The ...

... about to propose it the abolition of the Excise duty on paper (cheers). That duty had already been condemned by a resolution of that house, and he had never heard any good argument against its repeal, while the repeal of the duty i would render paper applicable ...

... 1760, and both tea and sugar might now be made luxuries of the rich if duties enough were imposed upon them. The wine duties were duties of protection, differential, not revenue duties. Mr. Gladstone then proceeded to develop° a supplementary measure of ...

... THE PAPER DUTY. The abolition of the Paper Duty has been carried in the House of Commons by a considerable majority. After the statement made by Mr. GLADSTONE, and the reception with which his Budget generally met, it was to be expected, but majorities ...

... the information and instruction communicated, to the results achieveel. by the abolition of the newspaper stamp—results aids would be immensely increased when the paper duty itself was finally abolished. There was too genseralil7 in the House of Lords ...

... removal of the paper duty, and the abolition the impressed stamp on newspapers, require one thing morn to make these boons tenni/tete—the privilege of transmitting any single newspaper to any part of Great Britain for a halfpenny stamp, either adhesive, ...

... FRANCE AND THE PAPER DUTIES. ILLUSTRATED. TIMES SATURDAY, MARCH 31, 1800. Ever since it was announced that the abolition of the paper duties formed part of the liude-et, their general character became exposed to new criticism. They almost universally ...

... inauspicious circumstances, and, having obtained as an instalment the abolition of the stamp duty on newspapers, seemed now about to be crowned with success by the total repeal of the paper duties (applause). That desirable end was in no slight degree to be ...

... inauspicious circumstances, and, having obtained as an instalment the abolition of the stamp duty on newspapers, seemed now about to be crowned with success by the total repeal of the paper duties (applause). That desirable end was in no slight degree to be ...

... Commons, the abolition of the advertisement duty and the stamp duty, and on the prospect they no hbad of the abolition of the re. maining restriction, the duty on paper, being also abolished. Dr. Watts moved ...

... the repeal of the duty on paper was inexpe- diert. The whole of the debate turneel on the question wii'.-iher it was exr sdient to have an income-tax of 9d. in the pound with the paper duties continued, or of lOd. with the paper duties abolished. On a division ...