... PROPOSED ABOLITION OF PETTY CUSTOMS. POSITION OF PERTH COUNCIL. At the monthly meeting of Perth Town Council yesterdsy—Lord Provost Dewar presiding—a communication was read from the Town Clerk of Inverness with regard to the Petty Customs Abolition Bill, ...

... the town clerk's duties. Dr Anderson asked whether it was not part of the Town Clerk’s duties to prepare bonds and arrange fur loans, and if there was any minute regarding them at the time of the Town Clerk’s appointment. The Town Clerk said he had never ...

... agreement stamp reduced half crowu ; aboli'iou of sixpenny stamp on life iu»urance policies ; abolition of gold and silver-plat- duties; tea duty reduced 2J per lb ; doty on currau * r ducej from to per hundredweight; increased beer ...

... ower Eou = o - of the Aiistriaii Reicbsratli to-day passed the seconti and tlurd- readnig of the bill for the . abolition of .-the stamp duty • OD . new 5-y apers and calendars . - — Reiiter . : - ...

... apprentice agreement stamp reduced to 6d, abolition stamp on health insurance policies, abolition the gold and silver plate duties, tea duty reduced 2d the lb., duty on currants ...

... 2 6d, abolition of 61 stamp on hnltz insurance policies, abolitian ef the gold and silver plate duties, tea duty reduced 2d the Ib, duty on currants reduced from 7s to 9s per cwt, the increased beer duty last ...

... agreement stamp reduced to half-*-crown; abolition of sixpenny stamp on life insurance policies; abolition of gold and ailver-plate duties; tea doty reduced 2d per pound; duty ou currant* reduced from 7s to 2s ...

... from the Law Courts. at* getting a little mors freedom ia committee of the Reicharath has decided priueipls upon the abolition the Stamp Duty, and has also declared in favour of penmltina the street sals of newspapers. A examination the skulls of savage and ...

... tnilow• - _ Lady Fleretiee,—n, no so of softens.i fan abolition of ell distinction sal tr, and .4%11 duties, s vein' You Insy rood woofed of two thlnds —l. 11 attempt to it. I shall make the stamps in • merlon. and otrisi.:enite spirit. 2. As it haptrnA ...

... printed paid a duty of I. d per pound, each copy issued a stamp duty of Id., and each adser Winient a to: of 16.1 d the p ices were necessarily high. and the circulation- as compared with the newspapers of to day- small. With the abolition of the 'tizzies ...

... THE CHRISTIAN JOURNALIST. SUNDAY TALK. The history of the modern press practically dates from the abolition of the stamp on newspapers, which came into effect, June, 1855. We remember all kinds of evil were predicted to follow upon the establishment of ...

... before his d ath. It gives a very detailed account of rhe operations of the Newspaper Stamp from its imposition in 1712 until its abolition and the repeal of the paper duty in 1861 made the cheap daily newspaper at first a possibility and then a reality. ...