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... posed changsts would consist in a lowering of the stamp-duty, the abolition of the necessity for Government authorisation, and, in cases of offences against the press laws, the substitution of the correctional tribunals for the present system of admi ...
... incometax, succession and probate duty, protection and equal rights for all colonial subjects irrespective of race, abolition of flogging and of purchase in the army, tea and coffee duty free, and wine duty at Id. a bottle, abolition of ...
... Tax Bill was quite expected its supporters—indeed, there are probably many who would bo disappointed by its success. The abolition of this bone of contention would be sore blow to many petty agitators, who, through it, have attained a notoriety and an ...
... the general bill referred to French Government. restrictions, but did not believe the House would ever He approved of the abolition of all sanction the proposed advances, The bill was read a second time. The Mutiny Bill was read a third time and passed ...
... any which would commit the country to sinking fund, however modified disguised ; and Mr Hubbard thought the abolition of the Fire Insurance Duty should precede the reduction of the debt Mr Gladstone spared the Chancellor of the Exchequer the trouble of ...
... to adopt any new improvement in his business, in which he was quite an enthusiast. At the time of the agitation for the abolition of the corn laws, Mr Simpson joined the small band of Scotch f trmers, healed by Mr Hope of Fentonharns, who supported Messrs ...
... goose’ formerly signified, among the democratic and pro-slavery party, to sound on the negro questionto be opposed to the abolition of slavery. Now that slavery is dead and buried, the phrase means to be staunch to the partyquestion, whatever it may happen ...
... ladies an assurance of the entire practicability of the work a specimen and trial will be forwarded receipt of 10s. in postage stamps. We have no personal knowledge of the company, but before making any remittance it would be well to get inquiry made by some ...
... bottom. The Doo Tax.— The new arrangement in reference to the duty on dogs is working admirably. Licences for 695,624 dogs have been taken out up to the 30th June, as against 394,837 paying duty in March 1866—an increase of about 76 per cent. Scotland the ...