... committees in the Corps Legislatif. With reference to the press, the proposed changes would consist in lowering of the stamp duty, the abolition of the necessity for Government authorisation, and, in cases of offences against the press laws, the substitution ...

... on railways, savings banks, indigenous sugar, and kindred subjects. In be was member of the commission respecting newspaper stamps. He adhered to the revolution of 1848, and offered the advice of his eznerience to the provisional Government, several members ...

... triumph over the gigantlo difficulties which beset your path when this journal was started. The paper duty, the stamp duty, and the advertisement duty presonted obstacles which were almost sufficient to deter anyone from Issuing a cheap nowspaper. Lloyd'8 ...

... member having complained that already the mails- these were coaching days-were so heavily laden with news. Eapero that if the stamp duty were removed Ia would not ber so, to travel in the mail coaches. (Lughter.) On the 10th of January, 1840, the people of ...

... had been appointed Deputy-Mayor for the current year. THE DUTY FIRE ASSURANCE. The Town Clerk read a letter which had been received from The Association for the Abolition or Redaction the Duty Fire Assurance,” stating that Mr, H. B. Sheridan, M.P. for ...

... 000.-.27k Builder. ihe i Russian Newspaper Stamp Duty.— ihe editors the Prussian journals have been called upon the GoveAiment to express their views on Reform now in contemplation. The abolition the stamp duty political publications is ...

... that Church-rates and open voting are the two most pressing evils of the time, or that tha whole duty of the politician is comprehended in the abolition of Church-rates and the introduction of the ballot ? Abolish Church-rates, by all means, and as swiftly ...

... total Ww abolition of the protective system. and the elimination of h all articles from the tariff except those few absolutely it required for financial reasons ; that the loss occasioned to the revenue at first by a reduction of the duties may with a ...

... a bundle letters, and handed then: prisoner to stamp. I was present during time he was stamping- those lett r-. It would my duty sort those letters, which I did, Oaring the tin: • the prisoner was stamping the letters back was iw irds him. From I had received ...

... one of the seventy blinds which were put up in uiustratien of the various trades, The Council had again petitioned for the abolition or further redaction on fire insurance, and recommended the continuance of petitions by all Chambers until this tax had been ...

... —The Builder. The Prussian Newspaper Stamp Duty.— The editors of the Prussian journals have been called upon by the Government to express their views on Reform now in contemplation. The abolition of the stamp duty on political publications ...

... led to the raising np into heroes of common street assassins, who shot down policemen unarmed, and in the execution of their duty —(cheers). With the country in this state it behoved every man who looks for the maintenance of order, and who loves and admires ...