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ABOLITION OF THE PAPER TAX

... ABOLITION OF THE PAPER TAX. THE EXETER: FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER 27, 1861. As the Paper Tax will he repealed next Tuesday, Oct. lst., we shall reduce the price of The Western Times to TWO PENCE HALFPENNY, Unstamped. The Stamped Copies, to go by Post, will be ...

Published: Saturday 28 September 1861
Newspaper: Western Times
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 472 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

NEWSPAPER STAMP RETURNS

... NEWSPAPER STAMP RETURNS. The Exeter Gazette is boasting of its circulation of stamped papers. Since our reduction price to One Penny, our interest lies abridging the use of the impressed stamp. got no moro profit on a stamped paper than we do on an unstamped ...

Published: Friday 15 December 1865
Newspaper: Western Times
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 240 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

SIR STAFFORD NORTHCOTE, AND THE OXFORD TESTS ABOLITION BILL

... SIR STAFFORD NORTHCOTE, AND THE OXFORD TESTS ABOLITION BILL. We were unable last week to find room for the speech delivered by Sir S. Northcote, on Mr. Dodson's Bill for the abolition of Tests at Oxford University. We now append a fuller report:— Sir ...

Published: Friday 25 March 1864
Newspaper: Exeter and Plymouth Gazette
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 1329 | Page: 10 | Tags: none

VOLUNTARY CHURC H-R A T ES. Copies the Act for the Abolition of Corcpul■•ry Church-rates, with information for ..

... Stock and Implement* ss. per cent. No estra •barge for Thrashing by Steam. Tbe Government Duty on all Inaurano is is now repealed. charge made for Policy Stamps. PROVIDENT LIFE OFFICE, established in tbe aame year and under the same management, has been ...

Published: Friday 18 June 1869
Newspaper: Western Times
County: Devon, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 1274 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

The Queen and court left Windsor for Balmoral on Wednesday. New three-penny postage stamps were issued ..

... theiutroduction of the reduced duties, French wines in particular, which contributed to the consumption to the extent of 20 per cent, as compared with other wines; and it is stated that Mr. Gladstone's system of assessing the duties on wines according to strength ...

Published: Saturday 03 May 1862
Newspaper: Western Times
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 1223 | Page: 10 | Tags: none

LAST NIGHT'S PARLIAMENT

... Exchequer whether newspaper proprietors who may have their possession any stamped .sheets on the day when the proposed new regulations for the abolition of the impressed stamp take effect, would be allowed to use them, and to retain the privileges sending ...

Published: Saturday 17 March 1860
Newspaper: Exeter and Plymouth Gazette
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 1061 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

THE KNOWLEDGE TAX IN AMERICA

... like many other modem shibboleths, been qualified by the results of practical experience. In England, previous the abolition of the stamp duty, nothing could more decorous than the tone of its press. The most exciting questions were discussed with calmness ...

Published: Saturday 15 February 1862
Newspaper: Western Times
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 1311 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

Totnes Race Meeting: is fixed for Sept. 6th and 7th. The returns of the late Wesleyan Bazaar for the Southernhay

... Brice. The chairman read a letter from the Hathorleigh Highway Board as to petitioning the House of Commons on the abolition of stamp duty on the contracts for repairing the highways. Dr. Bent thereupon moved that a petition be prepared and delivered to ...

Published: Friday 02 June 1865
Newspaper: Western Times
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 703 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT

... individual cases, the public nterests would be promoted by the abolition of patents. Lord Stanley remarked that some feeling was entertained that the abolition patents, would involve the abolition of oopj right ; but there was marked difference in the two ...

Published: Tuesday 01 June 1869
Newspaper: Western Times
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 1343 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

LATEST INTELLIGENCE

... COMMONS,—Thursday. Impressed Stamps on newspapers.—Th Chancel lor reply to Air. Weston said that on Monday he hoped to lay the table the bill relating to the ImureWd Stamps on Isewspapers. 'pressed Drawback Ship Duties and Timber—T„f Chancellor of the ...

Published: Saturday 24 March 1860
Newspaper: Western Times
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 973 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

THE BUDGET

... £32,000; the duty upon eggs, which yields £22,000 the duty upon nutmegs, which yields £11,000; the duty upon pepper, which yields £10,000; the duty upon liquorice, which yields £9,000; the duty upon dates, which yields£7,ooo ; and the ...

Published: Saturday 18 February 1860
Newspaper: Western Times
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 16078 | Page: 11 | Tags: none