... 331,000fr. for the fortifications of Antwerp, the only other matters being the abolition regula- tion of the laws as to usury, and some modifica- tion of the existing stamp acts and of the present postal arrangements as to patterns and samples. All these ...

... the duty of Is. p.*r quarter on foreign ! corn, and to substitute a duty of 3d. per cwt. ; to j reduce the license to sell tea in rural places in houses of less value than £10 pei annum from lis. 0.1. to 2s. GJ. ; to reduce the duty on proxy stamps used ...

... thought that tbe income tax aud the tea duties ought to be reduced before the malt tax was got rid of. This Mr. Bentinck looks upon as a griev- ance. But he must know perfectly well that tbe reduction of the tea duties and the income tax benefited the ag ...

... ooe-hslf of the malt duty was taken off when tho beer duty was removed. The removal of tbe beer ! duty was adopted not only because it was a moiety of the j malt duty, but because it was the most burdensome portion !of tbat duty. Thirty-four ...

... Chancellor of the Exchequer relating to the sugar duties, as also those continuing the duty oa tea, altering the duty oa corn, and continuing the ' income tax at 6d. j s The propositions relating to stamp eiuties anel licenses to sell tea were also agreed ...

... taxes (tand tax and house tax) yielded 4,000,000 rix-dollars and indirect taxes-namely, 'stamps, succession duty, duty on transfers of property and registration duty— produced £1,593,000. The re- sidue was supplied by extraordinary reoeipts The e f ™™ fv^Tn* ...

... thing else, relative to the standards of sugar. With re- ference to the stamp duties on settlements of money secured on life assurance, he proposed that they should be liable to stamp duty where there was a covenant to keep up toe policy. „ , Mr. MALINS said ...

... order to protect their paper trade tbe Continental States imposed on the exportation of rags a duty which was virtually prohibitory. The abolition of the duty was not made conditional in the commercial treaties concluded between this country and France ...

... commerce, which now came iuto the country without any exaction what- ever. After abolishing duty on those articles, 15 others had been subjected to customs duties. That ?? not ouly an example to foreigu nations, butencourage- ment to our own to pursue a ...

... been rendered perfectly intelligible, and a proper economy in its expenditure rigidly enforced. Laws for the regulation of stamp duties, of the taxes on heritable and personal succession, and of assessments for local purpose', have been enacted, by which ...

... order for the second reading discharged. The Defence Act Amendment Bill, the Consoli- dated Fund (Appropriation) Bill, the Stamp Duties Act (1864) Amendment Bill, aud the Poor Relief (Metropolis) Bill were read a second time. The Cathedral Minor Corporations ...

... the year 1838 to the year 184r> to bring about that great change, tho abolition of the corn laws. A Parliament was elected in 1841 with a majority of ...