... hop duty. He would mention a few slight changes which he proposed to make. One was the reduction of the duty on playing cards from ls. 3d. (Laughter.) He proposed a change in the inventory duty of Scotland, which corresponded with the probate duty in England ...

... period not exceeding ,J \ agreed to. . The resolutions sanctioning the occasio w k sell beer, the reduction of the duty on P the stamp duty on foreign loan bonds, were „jjie The Thames Embankment Bill, after co from Sir J. V. Shelley, Mr. W. W and Mr. Cox ...

... but it was not favourably received by the Republican party. The President has signed an act for issuing postage and other stamps for currency, lad forbidding banks or corporations to issue bills for less than one dollar. . Congress adjourned on the 1J ...

... thus sent produced not only the most distressing but the most immoral consequences. The duty of giving did not end with giving. Many people imagined. that their duty ceased when they sent their cheque, but it was not so. A right direction most be prayed ...

... Besides such ordinary taxation as income-tax per cent., rising to 5 per cent, on incomes above 10,000 dollars), stamp duties, and legacy duties, the list includes manufactures of every kind, aud, in fact, all sorts of things that can eaten, drunk, worn, ...

... excise, mainly owing to the abolition of the paper duty, i* £1,194,000, and in the property tax £601,000. The Customs show an increase the year of £375,000, of which £219,000 has been received during the last quarter. From stamps the revenue has also increased ...

... ordered of the registered newspapers Kingdom, and of the number of penny and tb stamps, issued from the 30th of June, June, 1862, and also a simdar return of , $ tions and of stamps issued to them during tb THE UNION RELIEF AID $ Upon the order of the day for ...