... committees in the Corps Legislatif. With reference to the press, the proposed changes would consist in a lowering of the stamp duty, the abolition of the necessity for Government authorisation, and, in cases of offences against the press laws, the substitution ...

... ABOLITION OP THE PAPER DUTY, Price TWOPENCE, Unstamped. THREEPENCE, Stamped. The LIVERPOOL MERCANTILE GAZETTE, AND MYERS’S WEEKLY ADVERTISER. established July 1817. PUBLISHED EVERY MONDAY MORNING, At No. 1, Lancaster Buildings, Tithebarn Street, Liverpool ...

... as they ought to have done. If they had done their duty, those accumulations could never have taken place. have no power to accumulate money ; there are no claims upon the Trust, and it is our duty to levy from the people who use the road nothing more ...

... PROPOSED ABOLITION OF THE NEWSPAPER STAMP. (From the Montrose Standard.) One of the proposals in the present Budget is the abolition of the impressed Stamp on Newspapers, and with it of course the privilege and convenience hitherto accorded to the public ...

... 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 ...

... THE EEPEAL OF THE PAPER DUTY, In consequence of the abolition of the excise duty on paper, we have the pleasure of intimating to our Readers that the price of the Journal will Reduced. It will, from the date of our next publication—viz., the 2d of October ...

... THE PAPER DUTY. Their interference with the “ Taxes cn Knowledge,” so called, has not prospered in the hands of the Ministry this session. The proposed abolition of the newspaper stamp, which, instead of being a tax on knowledge, is a much prized public ...

... of the paper duties, although without a clause in the new treaty to secure a supply of foreign rags, the removal of the relief will be scarcely appreciable by newspaper readers. On the other hand, by the abolition of the impressed stamp, they will be ...

... taxation to the extent of £2,140,000. ABOLITION PAPER DUTY, AND STAMP NEWSPAPERS. There remained about a million to be given in further remission, and in the first place the Government proposed to abolish the Paper Duty. Mr Gladstone pointed out the oppressive ...

... reduced duty and arrears of collection. There is decrease on the Excise of about £9oo,ooo—of which the abolition of the paper duty and the shortened malt credits of last year are a sufficient explanation. There is an increase on the Customs, Stamps, and ...

... brought in bill to modify his original one for receipt stamp, on the English plan. He now proposes greatly to reduce this tax. The Portuguese Government has proposed to Spain a mutual abolition of the duty which now » ; cattle, which of importance on account ...

... i We cannot regard the surrender of the paper duty as | likely to prove any great boon to the public, as we j could never regard the duty in the light of a hardship, I The abolition of the newspaper stamp is a concession to the penny dailies, but it will ...