... 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 ...

... in reference t. this and other matters were confirmed. STAMP DUTIES ON MARINE IN- SURANCE POLICIES. The commercial law committee presented a-re- port which stated a number of reasons why this duty was distinguished in an obnoxious and oppressive way from ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... Chancellor of the Exchequer was lh willing to meet those wislhes by fixing the duty on wine at is. per gallon in casks and bottles alike; but whether. the entire abolition of the corn duty was contemplated. remanied to be seen..-Mr. Rawlins said lie supposed it ...

... adkvocatea tho abolition of the-duty dl$ teA mld sugar before the abolition of thc paper (ty. Soda oaftervwauds another placarel appeared., aunutincittg thlat r~. Watts and Mr.. W. P. Roberts vwould move an ameculrmtat in favour of the abolition of the tax ...

... Mr-MmNRna GIBSON, in the shape of a repeal of the excise duty on paper. Then he tries to conciliate the shipping interest by a great reduc- tion in the duty upon foreign timber. Then he reduces the duties on currants, and raisins, and figs, and hops, and game ...

... monopolies and prohibitive duties thei4 could not escape the notice of men who had studied the ad-ril vautages of commercal. freedom ; and accordingly, in the the year 1850, the law for the abolition of the differential duties for was first proposed to ...

... are to have the duty on their horses reduced from £12 to £S ; the stamp duty on proxies to vote at railway and other meetings is reduced from 6d. to id.; maritime re-insurance is legalised on payment of a shilling stamp; the stamp ...