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... reform to which the penny of this country almost en- tirely owe their existence :—we allude, of course, to the abolition of the stamp duty on newspapers and the repeal of the tax on psper. The benefi sial effect of tose measures is now sufficiently proved ...
... French Government, with a view to the modifica- tion or abolition of the duties in question ;’ and he now waits the result of these tations, and the French Government will see fit to abolish the duties as desi “Tam, Sir, your obedient servant, “J. W. Morton ...
... latter year stamps were sold for 6,740 inland bills, and 4,288 foreign, to be drawn for upwards of £4,000 each. There is no return as yet of the number of bill stamps sold in the year 1863-64, but it must be very large, for the stamp duty received for ...
... legal 5 Somerset House, the voting paper you have m liable to the penny stamp. If it ls we out«n remedy until the session arrives, when the IT?' not be overlooked. This stamp duty was r°PiM, I think, the proposal of Mr. Darby Griffith; - acceding to ...
... gratis at all the best Drapers in the Kingdom! or forwarded, on receipt of stamped address to Day and Sons, Lithographers to the Queen, Publishers, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London. ABOLITION OF CAPITAL PUNISHMENT. IN THE PRESS, and will Published in about Three ...
... measure for its repeal. I desire an early adjustment of the question Church Rate;, but consider that their unconditional abolition would equally unwise and unjust. I of opinion that the grant to Maynooth should never have been made, and will not support ...
... 'blunder an extra duty was imposed upon horses used by hawkers : this is now to be modified. graduated scale of stamp'duties'is to be levied upon preaen- tations to Church livings of smnall value,: begirniig with a.£5. duty inste'ad of a £7. ...
... son, the Bight Hon. William Cowper. —Court Journal. Stamp Duty on Probates.— By an Act just passed (27th and 28th Vic., cap. 56), probates and letters of administration are exempted from scamp duty where the effects do not exceed in value £lOO. The corn ...
... come forward; for all political economy and the opinions of all practical men had for many years tended to the abolition of protective duties. But Rowland Hill’s initiative and energy may be said to have created a new cause. Had he never lived, it may ...
... the eat a slave-cultivated Cuba, and stat that they had suffered far more from the growth of slavery in Cu than from its abolition in the British West Indies. Spain had been guilty of the grossest and most shameful violation of treaty engagements in e ...
... Government to those institutions. Societies registered under the Friendly Societies Act are also exempted from payment of stamp and probate duty absolutely under £50.; and from £5O. up to £200., if any member chooses to exercise the right of nominating relative ...
... proportion than any that are used for honest purposes, so dies for stamping false money were more expensive than those for stamping buttons. But what was worse still than the cost of dies, stamping could not done without making a noise, and the noise attracted ...