... persons held more than 11J millionacres. The only remedy he considered adequate was the abolition entails and the simplification of titles to land, reduction of stamp-duty and agents’ fees for deeds, and the alteration of the law of succession and primogeniture ...

... this he bad prepared tabulated statement comparing the duties to be levied after Ist July next with those at present in force. wool there would be a reduction of 10 per cent., the ad valorem duty at that rate having been abolished. woollen yarn 2s 6d ...

... croupiers. {nu proposing the toast of the evening, the Chairman said if more of the nobility were of the stamp of Lord Lothian the motion for the abolition of the House of Lords would, be believed, weet with very little sympathy. Ihe toast was received with ...

... disendowment of the Church. 6. Free elementary education. 7. Abolition of the game laws. Free rod fishing. 8. Payment of members of Parliament. i 9. Affirmation to be substituted for oaths. 10. Abolition of perpetual pensions. 11. Triennial Parliaments. 12. ...

... increased from £3,870,000 in 1880-1 £4,200,000 last year. The great mciease in stamps was accounted for partly by the accident of exceptionally high receipts from death duties on some great estates, and also from the improved administration of coUection ...

... of all existing suffrages. (*) The abolition of dual voting elections. Simplification of the registration laws, mostly baaed on provisions of the Scotch law. (4.) Alterations in the law aa to the appointment and duties of registration officers. (5.) Tbe ...

... condemn it; and .School Boards will only be doing their duty if they see that it is discontinued, and that the teachers give their whole time and attention during school hours to their proper duties. -The second of aeries of sermons, under . -uspicea of ...

... season Their position was very critical, and might liecome more »o ; and the question arose—what is our duty to wants them ? He thought it a duty first to pass vote of confidence in the Government, the best men they could find to manage the affairs at ...

... accept Mr George’s theory the bigical conclusion was to take the land, but if they could not accept that theory, their duty was to stamp it out They were met to hear the best defence that could made for the theory.—Mr George said the C 'airman erred in ...

... up in his ow n house. But the fact is that, owing to the sensitiveness of the money market, i t is not possible that high duties on impor ted goods will ever make a in go! ld. ‘There is an inexorable country rich tile affairs which it is vain to law in ...

... follow. The Law as to Receipt Stamps.—A question having arisen as to whether it was necessary to affix a stamp to a receipt for £2 or upwards if payment was made by cheque, the difficulty was referred to the Comptroller of Stamps and Taxes in Edinburgh, who ...

... missed this for the Budget' The biggest sum of money, amounting to several thousand pounds, that has been paid since the tea duty scare just before Budget Day about five years ago, was handed over the London Customs T. J. Upton on Tea taken out of Bond ...