... Sthatl taxationl abeld he direct, and that the customs duties should be aboied. Such an alteration, they thought, a would be favourable to the working olases, forthe abolition dof the customs duties would give them cheaper articles, and Ithe inoresse of ...

... pest bee entailed a very lso-ge Increase -if expense on the g Pest-eflice, and that it has made the primary duty. of the ?? department-the duty of distribsating letters-more diffi- enr Cult of performance than it might otherwise have baso. By th esalihet ...

... provision for a museum and library for patents. Patents yielded, on the average, a, revenue of £3000 a year, irrespective of stamps to the value of £20,000, and office fees to £19,000, making alto- gether a net revenue of about f40,000 a year. The law officers ...

... Bill was read a2 second time. The Street Music Mletropolis Bill was rea a third 1 time and passeed. The Inland Revenue Stamp Duties Bill was read m a third time and passed. 01 Thl Railways (Ireland) Act Amendment Bill, and 7 Drainage Improvement of Land ...

... there s1 should be an uniform duty of one shilling per cent, for the purposes of insurance on all kinds of property. Oa a division this was negatived by 170 to 117. Tho Chancellor then proposed his resolution reducing th duty of insurance on s tock in trade ...

... IDebtors 1B11l-commIttee; Bauways (Ireland) Acts Amniidmenh Bin-ac amended, to be considered; Sn.V-repcr; Inland' Revenue (stamp Duties) BiBl-es amend, to he considered * Gauls Bill-commlttee; Ombaourne-,tret Bill- 10101#tt5 ladenit Bii-sconi radig ; Drainage ...

... Bill was read a second time. The Street lilssic (Metropolis) Bill was read -a third time and passed. The Inland Revenue-Stamp Duties Bill was read a third time and passed, The Railways (freland) Acts Amendment Bill, and the 'Drainage and Improvements of ...

... the bor time of maldkg such reasuane, and duly stamped for Ua3 denoting the full and proper duties chargeable thereon, it wh shall be lawful for the said commissioners to make allow. CO ancefor the stamp duty Impressed on the policy of rt. bel assurance ...

... thing else, relative to the standards of sugar. With re- ference to the stamp dutieson 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 the Mr. IMAINS aid that the right ...

... nothing shortls Ofthe repeal of the malt duty can afford to them that relief which towth baa of lateayeasr been accorded to otherbranchesaof British industry. That amongst the objections; to the abolition of this duty, somne plal fear has been expressed that ...

... malt tax is unjust towards the labouring classes, imposing as it does a heavy duty upon a beverage necessary for their support in the dis- charge of their laborious duties. And the resolu- tions wound up with the adoption of a petition to 'Parliament ...

... the Convention. On the motion of leMr B1. S. Grinval (for Dingwvall) it was agreed to petition Parliament for the abolition of the duty on fire insurance. rSoma discussion took plane on the proposed Western Bank ~fof Scotland Bill. It was ultimately carried ...