... voted for H. Martel's amendment recommending the abolition of warnings, the subatitution of judicial for administrative jurisdiction over the press ; the lowering of the stamp duty ; and the abolition of the law which required the authorisation of government ...

... The Government presented a bill relative to tbe abolition of the nesvmaper stamp duty. ITALY. Fwannce, June 2, Evening. The heilee asserts that the Minister for Fireign Affairs has lodged s complaint with the Government respeatin its want of vigilance ...

... lees than L2O, the duty payable should be five shillings, and that other 14111141 the Stamp Duty should be twenty shillings. lie ititeuded to propose a reduction of the stamp duty on bills of lading from to 35., and the ...

... STAMP DUTIES BILL. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said that, in t 4 present state of business, he felt it necessary to propos. in order to facilitate the passing of the Stamp Duties which it was requisite to do immediately, that of it should be omitted ...

... posed changsts would consist in a lowering of the stamp-duty, the abolition of the necessity for Government authorisation, and, in cases of offences against the press laws, the substitution of the correctional tribunals for the present system of admi ...

... STAMP DUTIES ON NEWSPAPEDS. kptiblic meeting of Booksellers' Society. and othersiriendly to the removal of the taxes ocrknowledge, was held on Monday night in the theatre of the Mechanics' Institution, Southampton-buildtags, Chancery -lane. The theatre ...

... CONTEMPLATED ABOLITION OF THE ADVERTISEMENT DUTY. On Thursday evening, Mr. MILNER GIBSON brought forward his three resolutions for the abolition of the excise duty on paper, for the removal of the stamp duty on ...

... PETITION AGAINST THE NEWSPAPER STAMP DUTY. On Monday last, at twelve o'clock, a meeting of the inhabit - ants of the borough of Leeds was held at the Court-house, in that place to petition Parliament for the repeal of the stamp duty on Newspapers. George Goodman ...

... ABOLITION or TAXES ON * ILNOWLEDGE. The following letter is written by Mr. O'Connell, in answer to an invitation to him to he present at the meeting on Monday next, to consider the question of the abolition of the Stamp-duty on Newspapers : _ 10, La ...

... nothing less than a total abolition of the Stamp Duty on Newspapers will meet the requirements, or satisfy the demands of the nation. Your petitioners therefore humbly pray your honourable house wholly to remove the Stamp Duty on Newspapers ...

... will not presume to object to any reduction in the stamp duty, it is of opinion that the whole amount cannot fairly be entitled a tax upon knowledge, because, in consideration of a sum paid for the stamp, a newspaper is forwarded free of postage to all ...

... meeting will not presume to object to any reduction in the stamp duty, it is of opinion that the whole amount fairly be entitled a tax upon knowledge, because, in consideration of a sum paid for the stamp, a newspaper is forwarded free of postage to all parts ...