... Committees the Corps Legislatif. With reference to the Press, the proposed changes would consist in the lowering of the Stamp Duty, the abolition of the necessity for Government authorisation ; and, cases of offences against the Press laws, the substitution of ...

... ABOLITION OF THE PAPER AND NEWSPAPER STAMP DUTIFS. All connected with the press will rejoice in the abolition of the paper duty, as relieving the raw material—the blank sheet of all literary ope- rations—from a tax which is less considerable in amount ...

... ABOLITION OP THE NEWSPAPER STAMP. The following resolutions with reference to newspaper stamps, moved by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, were agreed That it is expedient to repeal the exemption of newspapers from postage duty, and to charge on newspapers ...

... still the duty is only 30s. ! The Legislature does not attempt to impose a higher duty on this description of instruments, and the consequence is that the larger the transaction the less the rate of duty upon it. Thus a bill of £13,000, the duty on which ...

... STAMP DUTY ON RECEIPTS FOR WAGES To the Editor of the Telegraph and Post. Sir,— X. C. S. in his letter headed Civil Servants and Stamps on Wages' rather suggests that Civil servants have been treated with especial favour by the abolition of the stamp ...

... Abolition of the Newspaper Stamp, the Advertisement and the Paper Duties.—lt is said, and we understand with some truth, that the Chancellor of the Exchequer has at length been convinced, by the powerful arguments and convincing statistical returns of ...

... negatived without division, and the resolution proposed the Lord Advocate was agreed to. STAMP DUTIES. The Stamp Duties resolutions (the Advertisement Duty and the stamp on newspaper supplements excepted) were ...

... It is rumoured that Mr Gladstone intends to propose the abolition of the Inhabited House Duty. Property the value of £16,000 been destroyed by the underground fire South Shields. A house and garden in a fashionable quarter of Paris were sold the other ...

... g notour bankruptcy is prescribed, and the procedure in cessio the instance of a creditor set forth, but no Court fee, stamp duties, or Government payments are exigible. In the case of bankruptcy under the Act 1856, the Sheriff may grant warrant to take ...

... 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, ...

... PUBLIC NOTICES. SSOCIATION FOR THE ABOLITION OR REDUCTION OF THE DUTY ON FIRE INSURANCES. PATRONS. The t Hon, Lord STANLEY, M.P. Sir James Bart., M.P. Sir VILLIERS SHELLEY, Bart., THOMAS SLINesBY DuNComBE, Esq., M.P. GEORGE HADFIELD, -» M JoHN ARTHUR ...

... notour bankruptcy is prescribed, and the procedure in cessio at the instance of a creditor set forth, but no Court fee, stamp duties, or Government payments are exigible. In the case of bankruptcy under the Act of 1856, the Sheriff may grant warrant to ...