... for the reduction of the duty to Is. 6d. all round, thereby introducing uniformity in the duty. The wisdom of the course adopted by the Committee has been verified by the result. The Chancellor of the Exchequer has reduced the duty to Is. 6d. on all insurances ...

... preferred getting a fid. duty properly secured to them rather ss. duty which they only obtain in very few instances. MARIXX AMD The duty on ro-insursnoe imposed last year was proposed to be removed as being burdensome ; and the duty on what were termed time ...

... round numbers estimated at four millions. duty on tea now one shilling pound; it is to be reduced sixpence. The income tax now sixpence in the pound; it is to be reduced to fourpence. The fire insurance duty on ordinary property, not stock* in-ttade, ...

... NEWSPAPER STAMP RETURNS. The Exeter Gazette is boasting of its circulation of stamped papers. Since our reduction price to One Penny, our interest lies abridging the use of the impressed stamp. got no moro profit on a stamped paper than we do on an unstamped ...

... form of a Bill, he should have good reasons to show why a reduction or abolition of the stamps on clerkship and admission would not be preferable to the repeal of the certificate duty. He hinted some of them, and there is no doubt that, when the question ...

... LITERARY SELECTIONS. . _ . STORY OF THE ABOLITION OF TORTURE IN FRANCE. Dunixo my stay in Paris, a good years ago, I had the good fortune to be inho. to Madame de a lady of an ancient and family, slid far advansod in yeah My oesiralgo friend, for so Ilove ...

... STAMPED sd. ments. The following appointments and changes in the corps of Royal Engineers have been announced at head-quarters, Chatham, by command of Field- Marshal the Duke of Cambridge:—Captain R. G. Thorold, to take over the command of the 23d Company ...

... As a proof that high Government duties had considerably interfered with the revenue which was derived from insurance duties, he would mention that in 1782 the duty was first charged, and was fixed at le. 6d. The stamp duty on policies was 6s ...

... is wrapped in white Be wernment stamp. Sold Wholesale and Retail by J. § and Son, 150, Oxford-street, London, and by all medicine vendors throughout the country, in Boxes price 2s. 9d. each, or post for 36 postage stamps. who are troubled with Bilious ...

... claims which the fire insurance duty had to reduction. He begged to sicond the motion. The resolution was carried unanimously. Letters were read by the Secretary of the Association for the Abolition or the Rednction of the Duty Fire Insurances (under whose ...

... REDUCTION IN FIRE INSURANCE DUTY. The Directors arc now prepared to give the Public fall advantage of tho Reduction in Duty upon all Insurances effected or renewed after the 27th April, 1866. Charge made /or Policy houmer small the amount insured. JOHN ...

... Stamp Duties on Marine Insurance Policies. —'I be council ol the Liverpool Cb.-tmber of t'otnmerce have adopted a report oa the above subject, states a number ol reasons why this duty was dis'inpuished in sin obnoxious oppressive way from other species ...