... surplus. He proposed to reduce the duty on the letting of small tenements from stimn duty on appraisements to Sd. To reduce the L p Ecclesiastical licenses. To reduce the stamp on the Charter parties from 5s. to 6d. The duty on rZEW laf r,r t0 be '•eiU0TCd- ...

... preferred getting a eixpenny duty properly secured to them rather than a 58 duty, which they only obtained in a very few instances. The duty on re-insurance, imposed laet year, was proposed to be removed as being burdensome, and the duty on what were termed fire ...

... preferred getting a sixpenny duty properly mowed to them rather than a be duty, whit& they only obtained in ' a very few instances. The duty on re-insurance, impfud last year, was p be removed as being burdensome, and to duty on what were termed fire policies ...

... the North, and our own President had proposed abolition in a way that created suspicion as to his soundness. Mr Tenter said it was time that Congress should express their opinion upon arming slaves, and stamp upon it the indelible stigma of public abhorrence ...

... attention to certain biils now before the House, for rendering valid letters patent for inventions, which had not been duly stamped within the time limited for that purpose, aud said he did not intend to propose the second reading of the bill unless at the ...

... relaxation from his duties since his appointment to the Vicarage eighteen months ago. His burden has proved literally over- whelming. How his brother Vicar of St. Mary's accomplishes, and so satisfactorily, his exhausting duties, it is difficult to ...

... on of Parliament. They did not, and could not, undertake to pass it, for it was not their work to decide its Late, but the duty of the representative of the people. There was no hope of such a Bill receiving the sanction of the majority of the House, ...

... So it will at once be seen that the nature of le duties prescribed by the office is in itself a considerable ndrance to any one obtaining it simply as a sineenre, and the same time perform its duties satisfactorily. Agcin, I consider a knowledge of the ...

... act of testing th e boiler, when it exploded to take off the remaining duty on fire insurances, the tax with a report which shook sit the buildings in the on cabs, and the postage stamp on the carriage of newsneighbourhood and put out most of the gaslights ...

... second time that day three months. In taking this course, the noble earl observed that he was actuated by a striet sense of duty, believing that it was ueither wise nor expedient at this moment, and under present circumstances, to adopt a mea- sure, the ...

... out by the defendants' at- torney that something appeared to have been written under one of the receipt stamps placed in the book, and on the stamp being damped and removed the entry in question was discovered. For the defence it was proposed to call the ...

... paper. the Coedit Times. that • whining apology might be given for the detable deed, and that civilised Europe which had stamped it with reprobation was too maudlin and sentimental. Nay, it is within bounds to suppose that they might regard Wilkes Booth ...