... posed changsts 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 of the correctional tribunals for the present system of admi ...

... to the propriety of removing the duty itself, for its reatrictive tendency has been admitted on all hands, and its repeal may be said to have been rendered a matter of necessity by the abolition of the newspaper stamp and the rapid development of cheap ...

... of law of public safety, Article 75 of Constitution to be 'modified, reversion of electoral law, suppreseion of newspaper stamp duty, and trial by jury for press offences. Ninety-eight deputies have agreed to this programme. Clement Duvernois, it is said ...

... customs duty on tea of 15 florins per 100 lb. I need not say that this proposal, contrary as it is to the principles of free trade, meets with very strong opposition. The result naturally is that people are afraid that the abolition of the stamp-duly will ...

... silks, timber, dried fruits, and hope, and with abolitions of duty on butter, cheese, tallow, will give a remission of indirect taxation to the amount of more than two millions sterling. Then the paper duty is amputated with a bold sweep, being a saerifiee ...

... the proxy. paper stamp. from Gd to Id; to reduce the stamp of letters of attorney for receiving dividends; to legalise ninrine insurances; to grant oce..sional licenses to beer-sellers and refreshment houses. In regard to the sugar duties, he proplses to ...

... exercised in regard to expenses incurred for public works. He likewise advocated the suppression of the octrois, and the abolition of stamp-duty upon newspapers,asul of the impost upon salt. In conclusion, he proposed the introduction of the Income-tax. M. Gonin ...

... To-morrow he would name the day. TRH STAMP. Sir H. asked whether newspsper proprietors who may have in their poseemiun stamped sheets on the day when the new regulation fur the abolition of the impressed stamps take effect, will be allowed to use them ...

... agreed to. The following bills passed through c,rnmittee : Public Works (Ireland); Edinburgh University; Inland Revenue; Stamp-duties on Prthstes, &C. The House adjourned at seven p.m. ...

... and sugar might now be made ' luxuries of the rich if duties enough were imposed 1 upon them. The wine duties were duties of protection, differential, not revenue duties. The reduction , 1 of the duty upon wine front Si 10d to 3s per gallon ...

... exercised in regard to expenses incurre•l for public works. He likewise advocated the suppression of the nctrois, and the abolition of stamp-duty upon newspapere, and of the impost upon salt. In conclusion, he proposed the introduction of the Income-tax. M. Goma ...

... frid by means of adhesive stamps, to be provided by the Commis. sioners of Inland Revenue.' This refers to the stamp-duty on write of confirmation, ike., endorsed on other deeds, and the effect, s'iould the clause be adopted, will be to save the expense ...