... collecting the. duty amounted to as much as the' duty itself, or pretty nearly. He therefore begged to move that a memo- rial be addressed to the Chancellor of the Exchequer for the abolition of this duty. He wished the ques. tion of the pepper ...

... ‘The Powis asked if year to make'a rovision for a museum and library for Patents yielded on the average a £3, a-year, ve of stamps to the val oF £20,000 and ‘to : és £19, making altogether's nett of £40,000 a-year. The law-officers ef the Crown alone received ...

... true position of the question of abolition. It is onr object t* endeavonr to this now. We shall try to show, not that any one capital murder wrong, but that all are wrong ; not that few persons are interested in the abolition of the capital net, but that ...

... you ever hear of it were things people had never heard of: but still heavy duties were levied upon them. At present there are only twelve or fifteen articles on which duties are , levied. All the things which were formerly taxed come freely into the ...

... proper provision for a museum and library for patents? Patents yielded on the average a revenue £3,000 year, irrespective of stamps to the value of £20,000 a year, and office fees to £19,000, making altogether a net revenue of about £40,000 a year. The law ...

... provision for a museum and library for patents. Patents yielded on the average a revenue of £3,000 * veai irrespective of stamps to the value of £20,000 and ojhee fees to £19,000. making altogether a net revenue °f upwards of £40,000 per annum. The law ...

... trade, and as the first lady in the land. is concerned, abrogates some of those essential duties which many people think more of than they do of the hi.'her duties of her exalted office. One effect the Princess of Wales holding the drawingrooms will undoubtedly ...

... toake a proper provision for museum and library for patents '! Patents yielded the average revenue of a-year, irrespective of stamps, to the value of £20,000, and office fees £19,000, making altogether net revenue of upwards of £40,000 a-year. The law officers ...

... 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 ...

... of our farms, and yet it is loaded with a duty, when converted into malt, of upwards of 60 per cent., being 21s. 8)d. per quarter’; and the anomaly of a high duty upon malt surviving the repeal of the duties upon corn aud hops is a circumstance to which ...

... Lord John Manners, M.P. The following resolution was unanimously carried : — That in the opinion of this meeting the excise duty on malt is unjust to every person ; it produces most injurious effects upon the community at large ; the impost presses heavily ...

... tomknomthe year 1838 to the year to brag about that great change, the abolition of the corn taw. A Parliament was elected in 1841, with majentyof ninety pledged against the abolition of that law. The result showed how mnoh is to be done by continuous ...