... system of lighting dues. It was pointed out that the duties were levied at our ports when in almost every other country there was no such impost. The speakers considered that it was a national duty to provide lights, buoys, and beacons, and should therefore ...

... system of lighting dues. It was pointed out that the duties were levied at our ports when in almost every other country there was no such impost. The speakers considered that it was a national duty to provide lights, buoys, and beacons, and should therefore ...

... was well aware of the situation in which he was placed, and for many weeks past the condition of his elder brother and the duties which might be devolved On him otherwise than by the osurse of nature have been the subject of communications j betweee him ...

... TEIEGR.AMS.) FRANCE. J\GrT3 jUXE tt;.-II yesterday's sitting of the Iegis- Intive Body M. H c ?? proposed the abolition of the im. Port duty on vraiu from the I1st July. M, Forcade do I1 R1oqeetto oppeostd the proposal, as like]y seriously to disturb ...

... Office 2,610,000; Telegraphs 500,000! Packet Service 1,135,000 Abolition of Purchase 853,000 Total R71,313,000 The reduction of the duties on coffee and chicory. income tax, and house duty, is expected still to leave quarter of a million in the hands of ...

... Office 2,610,000 Telegraphs 500,000 | Packet Service 1,135,000 f Abolition of Purchase 853,000 Total £ 71,313,000 The reduction of the duties on coffee and chicory, the income tax, and house duty, is expected still to leave a quarter of a million in the hands ...

... appointed to inquire into the operation of the newspaper stamp duty has presented its report. It consists of five articles, the of which provides that from the 1st of January next the stamp duty upon newspapers shall be abolished. Article 2 makes it obligatory ...

... set aside for the abolition of certain out-of-the-way stamps on deeds., but only on condition that the Howie is inducted by this bribe to pass without discussion a bill which is greatly needed for the codification of all the stamp duties now to force. Among ...

... watch-cases—to commence on July ûth. The abolition of the licence for playing-cards dates from September 2nd. The ninth resolution abolishes the stamp duties for policies of insurance, and substitutes a stamp duty of Id. This measure will ...

... abolishing the octroi duty on building jxiaterials sent to Vienna from other places in the Em- pire. Ihe building societies, too, which propobe to coalesce In order to increase their capital, will be freed from the payment of stamps. These measures have ...

... that a deputation befoimedfor that purpose; that a petition be pre- sented to the Chancellor of the Exchequer to reduce the stamp duty on bills of loading from 6d. to Id.; that the attention of the Executive Committee of the Cham- ber be directed to the question ...

... in the stamp duty would have reduced the revenue from this source by £ 200,000 a year Instead of losing by the reduction of deed stamps from 35s. to 10s, the sum realised left a pro- fit of i;100,000, while the doing away with the ad valorem duty on bills ...