... as a gentle and beneficent gift to all concerned, and, under the abolition of the newspaper stamp, will be attended with no revolutionary disasters The removal of the newspaper stamp, whilst an act of unquestionable good sense and policy, brought ruin ...

... electeral the abolition of official candidatures, the abolition of large galaxies and accumulative! pay, the revision of artiele (which protects functionaries from prosecution), C.O mayors to be chums from the municipal c eirwil. the abolition of the newspaper ...

... ,—an impetus and progress unequalled .in the annals of any. former period, or of any 'natio& Notorltbstandlng the abolition of the duty, 'there are still many papers, the proprietove of which think it. unwise and unsafe to make any. reduction of price ...

... 1760, and both tea and sugar might now be made luxuries of the rich if duties enough were imposed upon them. The wine duties were duties of protection, differential, not revenue duties. There was a pressure with regard to that wine which, apart from any ...

... 12,972 signatures, ask for reduction of malt duty; 671 petitions with 19,051 names wish for the repeal of the paper duty; 39 newspapers and 885 signatures protest against the abolition of the impressed stamp ; and 13 petitions with 16,733 signatures are ...

... newspqper proprietone are bound to find securities fer stamps and advertisements, and to be responsible for damages and costs is cases of libel. Now, as there are no duties as advertisements, stamped newspapers bear but a small proportion to the general ...

... sig. matures inked for reduction of the melt duty; 671 petitions with 19,051 names wish for the repealer the paper duty ; 39 newspapers and 885 signatures protests against the abolition of the impressed stamp; and 13 petitions with 16,733 signatures are ...

... to wholesale spirit dealers on payment of £3. The stamp duty on agreements for letting houses for one year is to be lowered to ss. House agents are to take out a £2 license. The duties on adhesive stamps for foreign bills of exchange over £5,000 value, ...

... getting a sixpenny duty properly secured to them rather than a five shilling duty which they only obtained in a very few instances. 'The duty on fire insurance, imposed last year, was proposed to be removed as being burthensome, and the duty on what were termed ...

... recognised position, mew which numbers amongst II some very dubious characters, honour. able they may be in the mass. The stamp duty ow agreements for letting furnished houses is too insignificant to require further reference. The reduction of the inmate-tee ...

... reduction of the incense tax, the abolition of the duty on paper, and tho effect of the American war on the trade of country, the deficiency would be much greater. In the yearly returns the =stems ahow an of £350,000, stamp. £240,000, taxes .C 30,000 post•ttice ...

... painful duty to cast them off for ever (underscored, and ten notes of admiration). Jack remained their affectionate—he had put son, but erased that, and wrote relative, as more apppropriate. Pantile's pious horror at this letter stamped him a man ...