... ASSOCIATION FOR TOTAL ABOLITION OF TlE ANNUITY-TAX. Last night a meeting of this Association wasa held in the upper room of Queen Street Hall, to E hear a statement respecting the present position t of the movement-ex Councill0r Burns presiding. n The ...

... payment of taxes, the etamp duties on documents, &c. -He remembered that he once sent two docurnts to Dablin with a Gs stamp duty. At the regiotry office it was qoes- tidned that the amount was sufficient, and 11 16t stamps was at once put on. He, however ...

... 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- ...

... Bill. The same year, and on other occasions since, he voted against Sir John TrolawnL's Church-rate Abolition Bill. In 1859, He voted against the Abolition of the Annuity Tax (Scot- land) Bill, The sameyyear, he voted against Lord John Roqsell's Amend- ment ...

... prayer for a reduction of the Maltl Duty, and Mr. Sheridan has placed his annual motion in the Parliamentary notices, ealling on the House of Commons to pledge itself once more to the abolition, of the Fire Insurance Duty. It meat, however, be remembered ...

... samce course should be followed on promo- tion to the rank of surgeons and subsequent trans- fers, a deduction on account of stamp-duty Will, therefore, be made in cases of first appointment, or promotion of the classes of medical officers alluded to from ...

... prayer for a reduction of the malt duty, and Mr Sheridan has placed his annual motion in the Parliamentary notices, calling on the House of Commons to pledge itself once more to the abolition of the fire insurance duty. It must, however, be remem- bered ...

... sixpence to fourpence in the pound. The duty on Fire Insurance is to be reduced to a uniform duty of eighteen pence per cent. from the 20th of June next, and a stamp duty of a penny is to be substituted for the duty of a shilling on fire ...

... the ranks to perform labours and duties which could as well be done by free negroes or slaves, and provides that all able-bodied male free negroes between the ages of eighteen and forty-five shall be held liable for duty, such as working upon:fortifications ...

... were the income-tax and the tea duties, the relative [eight of taxation falling heavier upon these than upon; r^ut. He proposed, therefore, to reduce the tea duty €d.; Per lb. Thus, the tea that now pays Is. per lb. duty will fereafter pay 6d. and he hoped ...

... was the abolition of the puinish. ment of death, and the Chamber rejected the abolition by a mnajority of55 to 23. The minority consisted almost entirely of the ; peasants,' whose leader, M. Hansen, though he spoke in favour of the abolition, abstained ...

... property of the country. He examined the charges brought against the Malt Duty, observing that the question was as to its abolition or its reduction. The total abolition of the duty would, le said, be the death-warrant of our whole system of indirect taxation ...