... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... To-morrow he would name the day. TRH STAMP. Sir H. asked whether newspsper proprietors who may have in their poseemiun stamped sheets on the day when the new regulation fur the abolition of the impressed stamps take effect, will be allowed to use them ...

... reoeipt on stamp duties varied little from that of the preceding year, the amount being £8,392,749, increase of about a half per cent. The proportion from the peony stamp on reeeipta and bankers' checks waa £411,435 against £443,674 1869. The abolition of tbe ...

... and sugar might now be made ' luxuries of the rich if duties enough were imposed 1 upon them. The wine duties were duties of protection, differential, not revenue duties. The reduction , 1 of the duty upon wine front Si 10d to 3s per gallon ...

... envelopes stamped just bankers get their cheques stamped. In reply have received information that newspaper. covers may now be embossed with postage stamps the office of Inland Revenue, Somerset House, without any charge where JBtO worth of stamps are taken ...

... repeal of tli's | duty would simplify the labours of the revenue officers, and would be accompanied bv the abolition of the impressed stamp on newspapers, and the introduction of an intermediate three-halfpenny postage-stamp. The paper duty ...

... Postage Stamps.—The mania for collecting old postage stamps has been explained bjr a correspondent, who writes to the papers that in some of the low localities of London they are sold as good stamps, hey take the unobliterated halves of two stamps join them ...

... 1861 to reduce all prohibitive duties on articles of British produce, and to admit manufactures on a certain list at an ad duty of 30 per cent., to be reduced in three years to 25 per cent. England engaged to abolish all duties on French manufacture at once ...

... to the propriety of removing the duty itself, for its restrictive 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 ...

... resolutions were also agreed to, authorising the penny stamp-duty upon contract notes for sale of pur- chase of stock er shares, and the threepenny stamp duty upon dock warrants, as well as the stamp-duties ...

... 2. The Stamp Duties and Income-tax Bills were read secoud time, and the standing orders having been suspended, tliey subsequently passed through all their stages. Tuesday, April 3. The Royal assent was given to the following bills Stamp Duties Bill, ...