... that the paper duty in its assessment is unequally and capriciously levied upon certain branches of the trade, while other branches are exempt. The other is, that in these cases tlie duty is often no revenue duty at all, but a prohibitive duty, while it ...

... praying for the return of duty paid on stocks of wines aud spirits in hand ; by Mr. GRENFELL, from mem- bers of building societies in Preston, against that part of the budget which deprives them of exemption from stamp duties ; by Mr. Bazley, from merchants ...

... reign.chapter 34, for granting to her Majesty duties on profits arising from property, professions, trades, and offices, either by assessment, contract of composi- tion or otherwise, the following rates and duties, that is to say ; Upon any assessment on the ...

... re piired to perform at great personal risk the duties of Indian agents, governors, sheriffs, judges, inspec- tors of elections, &c, duties foreign to their military trai*ing, and they have done this duty without a murmur, and with marked intelligence ...

... dealing with revenue duties. I take it that, as respects brandy, nobody will pre- tend that the duty of 15s. on French brandy, compared with the duty of Bs. on English spirits, is a revenue duty. If I required evidence to show what that duty ...

... the duty of Is. p.*r quarter on foreign ! corn, and to substitute a duty of 3d. per cwt. ; to j reduce the license to sell tea in rural places in houses of less value than £10 pei annum from lis. 0.1. to 2s. GJ. ; to reduce the duty on proxy stamps used ...

... improvement are :— Duty on potable liquors, 6, 195, OOOfr. ; sale of tobacco, 4,871, 000fr. ; registration dues, 4, 576, 000fr. ; post- age, 2,427,000fr. ; sundry duties and receipts, 2,035,000fr. ; salt duty, 1,304,000fr. ; stamp duty, 841 ...

... subjected to propor- ?? duties; the establishment of a special and propor- tional duty on the notes of agents de change or brokers for sales or purchases, already liable, as is well known to a stamp according to the size of the paper— a duty which ciunot in any ...

... The paper duties were objected to upon grounds which the Government felt they could no longer successfully resist, and therefore they proposed to abolish the paper duties from the lst day of July next, and also to do away with the impressed stamp, so that ...

... step of removing the stamp duties upon its transfer. These stamp duties, as it seems to us, form a most legitimate and valuable source of revenue ; and as there are not, so far as we kiio-.v or believe, any dirferen- tial duties or arbitrary ...

... considera- tion. (Hear, hear.) THE NEW STAMP ACT. Mr. MITCHELL aske.l the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether it was the intention of the government to persevere in exacting, uneler the new Stamp Act, a stamp duty on every successive endorsement of delivery ...

... regard to measurement, shipping offices, discipline, desertion, seamen's fund, wreck and salvage' passengers surveys, and stamp duties ; and in conclusion i say that although they have not felt it necessary to offer an ! opinion upon matters purely of detad ...