... ABOLITION OF THE PAPER AND NEWSPAPER STAMP DUTIFS. All connected with the press will rejoice in the abolition of the paper duty, as relieving the raw material—the blank sheet of all literary ope- rations—from a tax which is less considerable in amount ...

... readily guess what I about to propose the abolition of the duty paper. (Cheers ) The paper duty is ia many respects doty, and I will show presently that it '•§ untenable. (Hear, htar.) In the Hrst place, unifom duty very tari article, how does it operate ...

... tiptoe! an *sport duty on rage. This will go far to reutra!ize the benefit of the nearest). An export duty is equivalent to an import duty, lira its working in this Instance is the same as if we hued foreign rags, bet let in livelier paper duty free. Were this ...

... The Newspaper Stamp —The proposed abolition of the newspaper stamp will be an unwelcome item in the budget to many of our readers. The present system, leaving it optional to the public to obtain stamped unstamped copies, is found highly convenient, while ...

... PUBLIC NOTICES. SSOCIATION FOR THE ABOLITION OR REDUCTION OF THE DUTY ON FIRE INSURANCES. PATRONS. The t Hon, Lord STANLEY, M.P. Sir James Bart., M.P. Sir VILLIERS SHELLEY, Bart., THOMAS SLINesBY DuNComBE, Esq., M.P. GEORGE HADFIELD, -» M JoHN ARTHUR ...

... ABOLITION OF CHURCH-RATES. Numerous petitions having been presented for and against the abolition of church-rates. Sir J. Trei.av. moved that the House go into committee upon the church-rates abolition bill. After some remarks from Mr. Packe in opposition ...

... districts, of Scotland especially, the abolition of the impressed stamp will prove a great annoyance to the publishers, and a serious grievance to the readers of newspapers. At present the use of the impressed stamp is optional, and a large proportion of ...

... prices as fresh demands arise. That these extra demands will duly occur on the abolition ot the paper duty will be apparent to every one. With the extinction of the impressed stamp on newspapers, and the discontinuance of the security system, thousands of ...

... the dealers the usual manner. There will a 10-s the repeal of the paper duty in 1860 —lB6l of £1.000,0,0. AIIOLITION OF TUB NEWSPAPER IMPRESSED STAMP. The abolition of the paper duty w ill save L.20.000 a-yesr in the establishment of the Board of Inland ...

... to the propriety of removing the duty itself, for its reatrictive tendency has been admitted on all hands, and its repeal may be said to have been rendered a matter of necessity by the abolition of the newspaper stamp and the rapid development of cheap ...

... revision of the foreign wine duty, which was protective and differential duty. The grand feature of the wine duty was its prohibitory power. Foreign duty was ss, 10d., colonial duty lid., and there was a virtual excise ...

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