... provide the less populous districts to the exclusion of the London journals. The removal of the penny stamp, the abolition of the advertisement and paper duties, completed the revolution by enabling the proprietors to establish penny the uniform price of the ...

... refused to pass the Paper Abolition Duty Bill, on the ground that no reduction of duty should take place while £9,300,000 of taxes had to be renewed laid on. This was the first occasion on which the paper duty abolition had been made a ...

... £51,100,000 and expenditure considerably less. He therefore devoted £3,409,000 to the reduction of the sugar duty, and the abolition of the duties on glass, cotton and wool, and 430 other articles; and so peaceful was the country, that, during that year ...

... uncertainty as to what might be done with the duties, and the public declined to purchase plate and to pay duty upon it in the expectation of the duty being removed. Moreover, the agitation to abolish the duty, in which Mr. WVatherstois was prominently active ...

... THE ADHESIVE POSTAGE STAMP. With reference to a recent paragraph respecting the resolution said to have been passed by the Town Council of Dundee, to the effect that Mr. James Chalmers was 'the originator of the adhesive stamp, and not Sir Rowland Hill ...

... TIIE ADIIESIVE POSTAGE STAMP. With referenoe to a recent paragraph respecting the resolution said to have been pissed by the Town Council of Dundee, to the effect that Mr. James Chalmers was the originator of the adhesive stamp, and net Sir Row- Lind ...

... 1882 THE HON REV J W LEIGH ON “THE DUTY OF THE CHURCH TO PAUPERS AND VAGRANTS” the 22nd annual meeting of the Church Congress Derby on Wednesday the Hon and Rev Canon Leigh vicar of Leamington delivered address on “The Duty of Church to paupers vagrants” ...

... relating to lands. The license duty of .£4 upon hawkers would be repealed. He proposed a stamp duty on the transfer of all securities to bearer which are now circulating without having paid the 10s. on their issue, to raise the stamp on the contract note of ...

... an active part in urging upon Parliament, and in other ways promoting the repeal of those obnoxious duties—the newspaper stamp, the advertisement duty, and the tax upon the production of paper, and his great public serviced in this respect were recognised ...

... the stamp duty upon deeds, by the imposition of duty of Is. per cent, per annum upon the nominal value of all securities to bearer which were now oroulated without having paid the registration •tamp of 10s. upon their issue, by raising the stamp brokers' ...

... alterations of movement by signs with his bow , sad gave an occasional hint to unsteady players by tapping on his desk or stamping with his feet. It is impossible to say exactly when the custom of from the piano came to an end and the reign of the baton ...

... proceedings of tbefl CatMic Congress, resolutions were adopted by the press sections recommending the repeal of thenerwsj- ...