... is .£lOO. The duty on fire insurance been nominally abolished, as the penny ad. !waive stamp will now cover any amount. Why should the insurance of house property to the value of £l,OOO be charged only one penny in the shape of stamp duty, and a ship valued ...

... ANSWERS TO dRRESPONDENTS' J. L.—No, the story is prepoeteroue. 3. NV. (Gateacret —For the SUM in question the stamp would be WIESE (1111Pomere). 'Commerce do la Prauce,' 31, Quai Veltaire,'Parit. • , C. E. K.,—Ban it of England notes are legal tender ...

... of Cambridge w ithout success. During this interval he entered into the great movement which had for its object the abolition of the duty on cogs, and beoame one of the most succeasful orators of the League. In 1841 he was invited to stand for- Manchester ...

... Imposition of a succession duty on real property, long persistently refused by landowners in Parliament, though a tax on personal property had been paid for the previous three score years and ten. (is.) Abolition of the compulsory stamp on news- papers and repeal ...

... unification of inland revenue mid iienny postage stamp lias struck mud ut tin's fancy, ami I should not surprised in short time hear that the telegraph stamp lias l>e«*n abolished, and that ordinary l*ostage stamps serve ail practical puniosca. Whilst the reforming ...

... Mr. Gladstone transforms the 5d duty on spirits and the 2d duty on rum into a uniform duty of 4d on all spirits, thereby gaining £180,000; and by certain small but remarkably happy changes in probate and legacy duties gives an immense amount of satisfaction ...

... Act, to stamp ev peckrt of their preparation at the rate of 2d 7 or every rm pow. per cent. of the bad tion was pure they practically to pay duty over, and they therefore joined in urging the repeal of thowe duties, After a reference to the duties on dried ...

... in the same sense as were the corn duties intended to protect the farmers of the United Kingdom ; but they have, in fact, had this efl'ect, and have produced a class, and a large clas3, of men who look upon the duties as beneficial, not because they will ...

... prepare the public mind for the n 'ed abolition of those duties, which was so largely I am accomplished in the mnagnificent budget of 186L1 th le, Afterwagds they addressed themselves more especi- mu n-ally to those duties whiiih remained on the articles to ...

... show an increase of £197,000 and the railway receipts of £146,000, Customs increased £45,090, but owiong to the abolition of ad valorem duties an actual decrease is shown of £9,000, The revenue for the twelve months ending on Sept. 30 reoched £9,084,000 ...

... prorernent. The question of a stamping depart- ment for Liverpool had for some time enraged the I attention of the committee, and on the 7th July . last the inland Revenue Department announced I thit the limit of stamping at the office in Victoria- st ...

... there is much that is weighty in the objection to the judges composing this tribunal. The judges themselves object to the duties being imposed upon them, and that . not froni any lack of courage or patriotism, but on grounds of expediency and serious ...