... 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 ...

... and before it can be stamped a formal pro- cess of application must be gone through, involving annoyance, risk, and an amount of expense which, in the caste of pol1icies of eail value, is often as much as the original stamp duty. The committee also object ...

... new tariff' the reduction of the duties on wine, spirits,, and sugar, as well as the total abolition of the (luties on a number of smaller articles all tending to swell the revenue. We believe, how- ever, that the wine duty may be considered an ekception ...

... should undertake the duty of distributor of !r-stamps. Questions of a complicated nature relative to he legacy and succession duties were not referred to the he distributor of stamps. He (witness) was not aware that athe amount of stamps in ...

... of the new tariff. the reduction of the duty on wine and spirits, as well as the total abolition of the duties on a number of smraI articles all tending toswell the revenue. We believe, however, that the wine duty may be considered an exception to this ...

... REPEAL OF CUSTOMS' DUTIES. I now come to the abolition of duties which form the second or supplementary part of the measure we propose for the alteration of the Customs' duties. We propose to abolish entirely and immediately the duty on ...

... anew tariff, the reduction of the' duties on wine, spirits, and sugar, as well as the total abolition of the duties on a mumber of smsll articles all tending to swell the revenue. Wie believe, however, that the wino duty may be considered an exception to ...

... circumstances in con- nexion with the payment of duties about the period of the Budget last year. Stamps will yield an increased revenue to the ex- tent of about £50,000, to bet accounted for by the new penny duties. In Assessed Taxes no variation is likely ...

... firstt place, the stamps on powers of attor-] ney affecting the publie funds Dare. wholly exceptional, and thieir abolition would .be , justified, just as the existing special rates are1 Justified, just as the absence of stamp duty on the transfer of ...

... liable to any higher rate of stamp duty ahan 2s. 6d. (exclusive as aforesaid), such lease or tack shall not be available unless stamped with a particular 3tsnmp for denoting or testifying the payment of the fulland proper stamp duty on such ...

... their export duties on rags, and that he thought it was quite right that the Government should do what they could to induce foreign countries to forego their export duties on the raw material. ADMseSIoN or FOREIGN SPIRITS AT A REDUCED DUTY.-On the same ...

... there was an increase are the spirit duties, the duties on sugar and tea, though the favourable difference in 1862 was not very important in amount, boiing less than £133,000. In the revenue derived from the duties on malt, hops, amd wine there was a decrease ...