... Harbours Transfer— Bill to transfer from the Admiralty to the Board ot Trade powers and duties relative to certain harbours. lords. Cecil -On second real ing of Tests Abolition (Oxford) Bill to move ?? it be read a second time upon tbis day six months. Viscount ...

... regard to the expenses incurred for public works. He likewise advocated the suppression of the Octrois, and the abolition of the stamp duty upon newspapers, and of the imposts upon salt. In conclusion, he pro- posed the introduction of an income tax. M ...

... the circumstances of that year w>re very trying. I I A notion became prevalent tbat the salt duty would be I increased, and a large quantity of salt— the duty on which came to T70.000Z. — was- taken out of baud. Tbat sum, there- fore, really belonged to ...

... Government having now decided to make the duty uni- form and to reduce it on every description of property to ls. (id. per cent, per annum from 15tb June, all policies will be entitled to a reduction of 0..c half the duty hitherto paid. ANDREW BADFX, Superintendent ...

... had been given last session. HIGHWAY CONTRACTS-STAMP DUTY. Mr TREFUSI3 asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether contracts for the maintenance aad repair of high- ways were liabsfc to tbe stamp duty cf 1/. 15*. ; and. if so, whether, considering the ...

... 000/. conveyance of negroes and liberated Africans under the abolition of the slave trade. Mr. WHITE ioq aired whether tbe cordial oo*opera tion of the United States government in the abolition of tho slave trade wo old not in future tend very much to dim ...

... postpone till to-morrow (this day) the third reading of this bill, in order to introduce a provision for stamping charter-parties with adhesive stamps. THE P_S¥MASTER-GENERAL AND THE AUDIT OFFICE. SirC. DOUGLAS asked the Chancellor cf the Ex- chequer whether ...