... partially relieved of Customs Duties. On the other hand, he extended the Legacy Duty to real or heritable property, introduced the penny receipt-stamp, and raised the duty spirits. These, especially the extension of the Legacy Duty, with the ...

... increase the salaries in the Diplomatic Service met with little support. Mr Ball was equally unfortunate in regard to the abolition of the duty on malt. The Chancellor of the Exchequer demolished his arguments, one after the other. If the consumption of malt ...

... to meet, by a false show of superabundant revenue, the difficulty which the majority of Parliament felt to the abolition of the Paper Duties, in the face of an apparent deficiency, it became rumoured that orders had been issued from head-quarters to the ...

... reduction of the income tax, and that the malt credit, which last year swelled the receipts, is missing, and that the abolition of the paj>er duty has bad time to work. From the two latter causes the excise shows a decrease of £1,100,000; customs show an increaae ...

... Scotland. Clause 1 explains the meanings of expressions used in t►e former and present Acts. Clause 2 provides for the abolition of the General Board of Comml‘sioners In Lunacy for Scotland. All orders or regulations established by the board to remain ...

... articles. Thero is also to be tax on slaughtered cattle, and on railroads, steamboats, ferryboats, and omnibuses, and stamp duties on about thirty different kinds of official and commercial documents. The income-tax is to be 3 per cent, on incomes over ...

... Scott is!i Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals ha; offered a reward for the discovery ofthe perpetrator. Small Stamp Duties.— A return is issuer 1 which shows the sums realised during the year 1861 by the various penny Customs dues imposed in ...

... Industrial and Provident Societies' Bill, were considered and agreed to. The report upon the Judgments Law Amendment (Ireland) Stamp Duty Bill was brought up and agreed to. The African Slave Trade Treaty (No. 2) Bill passed through committee. It was subsequently ...

... the destraction of private property is a question which may present itself for disposal. It is alluded to now from a sense of duty towards American commercial interests, and from the fact that recent intelligence indicates that other vessels of similar character ...

... present. At o'clock, company sat down to tea. Donating having followed. the guests partook of an excellent supper at nine. The duties of the chair were discharged by Mr John Whitson, Bothrie, and those of croupier by Mr John I F o e w r e ri d er u , n A ti ...

... 000 on the year, the total amount being £18,047,000 against £10,492,000. This result is, of course, owing to the abolition of the Paper Duty, which amounted to something like the difference between the two sums. The surrender of this conaisiderable source ...

... the proposed modes of registration would lead to great evils, and fail in giving satisfaction to the public. The cost of the stamps was material element, and they would not effect much ([unless they could induce the Chancellor of the Exchequer to make the ...