... patents ? The noble earl said that the patents granted yielded on the average a revenue of £3,000 a year, irrespective of stamps to the value of £20,000 year, and office fees to the amount of £19,000, making altogether a net revenue of about £42,000 year ...

... on that point. The fire insurance dry dirded itself into two beade—a duty on property, and a duty on trail , sod what the Govern. resent propireed to do was to leave the meant duty of 3s. upon fire insurance on houses and fornitare, and to reduce it to ...

... Came Letters which require to be answered must be accompanied with Two Stamps. Applicants who require their names to be registered by Letter must particulars in. cloeing 15 Stamps which sill also insure an insmediata CLARE COLLEGE. SCORYON, YORKSHIRE ...

... to impose a stamp duty of £\2 on the appointment to an incumbency of .£'800 a year. This would have beeu a con- siderable reduction on the present duties ; but on the representations of the Bishop of London and others, be has reduced the duty to £b. In ...

... oppose the reduction of the fire insurance duty on stock in trade, on the ground that -stock in trade was already largely exempted from- taxation. Mr. HUBBARD gave notice that he should propose to reduce the duty to the uniform rate of ls. on all classes ...

... like manner, 'when the old newspaper stamp duty was reduced to a penny it was said that the rate would never pay the Post-office for the copies it would have to carry, and for years after the reduction of the duty people remained in the belief that the ...

... nt with the purposes for which they were thrown open to the public. The inspector, therefore, naturally thought it was his duty to interfere without special authority. He was left to act on the 6pot at his own discretion, and he was certainly acting within ...

... the book post has entailed a very large increase of expense on the Post-office, and that ha 3 made the primary duty of the department—the duty of distributing letters—more difficult of performance than it might otherwise have been. the establishment of ...

... proper provision for a museum and library for patents, which yielded on the average a revenue of £3000 a-y ear, irrespective of stamps to the value of £20,000, and office fees to ££9,000, making altogether a net revenue of upwards of £10,000 a-year. The law ...

... reduction of the stamp duty on proxies from Gd. to Id., and of the duty on corn from Is. per quarter to 3d. per cwt. The first considerable re- duction is to be made in the sugar duties; and after elaborately discussing how to adjust tbe ...

... country gentlemen for the abolition of the malt duty. He gave but two reasons for that, though he might have given more. The first was that though the repeal of the beer duty in 1829 was practically a repeal of half the malt duty, yet thirty-five years have ...

... efforts for the abolition of the slave trade. Earl MALMESBURY corroborated the statement of Lord Brougham, that the Brazilian Government had done all it could to discourage the slave trade. The Street Music BUI, the Inland Revenue Stamp Duties BUI, the RaUways ...