... the receipts, is missing, and that the abolition of the paper duty has bad time to work. From the two latter causes the excise shows a decrease o, 1,100,000/. ; customs show an increase of 350,000.'. and stamps and taxes, 270,000/. have knowi under former ...

... with our new arrangements, the extra size more than covering the slight reduction in the value of paper caused the abolition of the excise duty. ...

... capacity to pay for the indulgence. Stamps show a substantial increase, arising, we are told, from the development of the succession duties and expansion of commercial and other transactions. The succession duties, it must be confessed, have proved failure ...

... and Is fur the stamp iu etcess of the sem char ged by the fire•oflice as an equivalent for the risk Thee. suppose five tradesmen aho Insured In fire different offices 1,0001. each. They paid is, for their policy stamps and 71 10s. for duty. Ent suppose ...

... These stamp returns 1 may say in passing, are not in the present day to be relied upon as the true index to the circulation of any newspaper, and are only of use to the public to show the diminution in the Revenue, by the abolition of the stamp duty; and ...

... 000 on the year, the total amount being £18,047,000 against £19,492,000. Thii rrsult is, of course, owing to the abolition the paper duty, which amounted something like the difference between the two sums. The surrender of this considerable source of ...

... were but two measures proposed to the House—one for the Abolition of Church Rates, the other to Amend the Law. The law, he said, could not amended, and, therefore, he would vote for the abolition of the rates; at the same time, as there was not much chance ...

... market is closed against foreign competition by prohibitory duties, the ■ producer can impose the whale tax on the coni sumer. Next in amount come the Stamp Duties, estimated £1,200,000. Stamps are already fruitful source of revenue the several Slates. ...

... swelled the receipts, is missing, and that the abolition the paper doty has had time work. From the two latter causes the excise shows a decrease 1,100,CC0/. ; customs show an increase of 350,000/., and stamps and taxes, 270,000/. We have known under former ...

... support, and, if ?? were flourishing, there' can boe little doubt the abolition of the fire duties would. be as popular in Parlia- mert as with the: public. The companies do not go for abolition. With more sensi- bility to the wants of 31r. GLADSTONE, they forego ...

... tobe a stamp r n on passenger tickets by railroad, or lake, t river, or ocean steamboats-on railway bonds and boards of public companies-an advertise. ment duty of five per cent. on the gross receipts t of all newspapers from advertisements-a stamp i duty ...

... Therefore tho SHILLING VOLUME LIBRARY projected with the view of giving to the reading public the full benefit of tho abolition of the Paper Duty. Tho Original Works Contemporary Writer* will be set In new and boll type, clearly printed on good paper, easy to ...