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... taken their seats in the Second Chamber, which is still discussing Bills of purely local interest. The Bill for the abolition of the stamp duty will be laid before the members in a very short time. In the meanwhile the sections are occupied with the examination ...
... community, Mr. Lowe deals in an equally liberal spint. He equalizes the duty on carriages of all kinds, distributed into two classes ; he reduces the duty on horses ; he abolishes the duties on l post-horses and on cabs. By these remissions he urged that the ...
... principal changes in the tariff above referred to :—Abolition of export duty; abolition of tonnage dues of all kinds, in place of which a light duty will be levied on cargo discharged. The differential duties on goods have been reduced 50 ...
... effect private property at sea,accommodation bills, extra charges on goods removed inland under bond, the equalisation of stamp duties on inland and foreign bills, registration of trade-marks, Government control of railways, factory Acts, carriage of silk ...
... --(THIS DAY.) The took the chair at 12 o'clock. Numerous petitions were presented, favouring the repeal of fire insurance duty, the abolition of nomination days at Parliament&ity elections, and the passing of the Contagions Diseases (Animal) Bill, and the P ...
... 442 ABOLITION OF THE DUTY ON FIRE INSURANCES. THE Directors of the ROYAL INSURANCE ( OMPAN Y, in antiepation of the above, beg to intimate that on all new I• surances now effected there will only be payable (provisionally) the proportion of Duty for the ...
... the Policy Or stamp; and now that the Duty is removed, it behoves e ver y one to insure at once, as an insurance can now be effected at a merely nominal sum. PROPERTY INSUFFICIENTLY INSURED.—The relief afforded by the abolition of the Duty will now enable ...
... then dropped. IRISH CHURCH (STAMP DUTIES).—The report on the Irish Church (Stamp Duties) was then brought up and agreed to. IRISH CHURCH (RE-COMMITTED) BlLL.—This Bill re-committed, and a clause inserted imposing a stamp ...
... constituents would lose through the abolition of a maximum in the levy of the posthorse duty; but the principle of a maximum is essentialy wrong, and has been gradually abandoned, as Mr. Chambers must be aware, in the stamp duties on conveyances and the devolution ...
... tax which might be mitigated. The statesmen who obtained the repeal of the paper duty ought now to supplement their measure by instituting a haifpenny and farthing stamp for newspapers and periodi- cals. I was pleased to sce the matter taken up in your ...
... Life, and Marine Assurances on liberal terms. The Duty on Fire Assurances has been reduced to the uniform rate of Is. 6d. per cent. per annum. No charge is made by this Corporation for Fire Policy or Stamp, however small the Assurance may be. Life Assurances ...
... Esq. CONSULTING SURGEON.—SamueI Sony, Esq., F.R.S. Fire, Life, and Marine Assurances on liberal term.. • roan)) ABOLITION OF FIRE DUTY.—The duty on all Insurances is now charged to the 24th June only, and no further payment will required if it be then abolished ...