... applied to other leases.. He also proposed that administration bonds,' which were now subject to a Stamp duty pf 205., shoulct only be liable to a Stamp duty. He did not think that the revenue would lose any thing by any of these alterations. Of the entire ...

... guilty of contempt. 115. What shall be paid for insertions of adveltisements. 116. Proceedings not liable to stamp duty, nor sales to auction duty. 117. Court may invest unclaimed money, and apply profit toward expenses of the Court. 118. Court empowered ...

... moved the second resolution, agreeing to a petition to Parliament for the repeal of the stamp duties, and the release of all persons now in confinement for violation stamp laws. Mr. BELL seconded the resolution, which was carried unanimOusly, as was a vote ...

... STAMPS ON NEWSPAPERS. CASE OF MR. HETHERINGTON AND M. CLEAVE. In the comparatively barbarous days of Queen Ann, the first stamp duty was put on pamphlets and Newspapers—a halfpenny on a half sheet, a penny on a whole sheet. The government then held and ...

... STAMPS ON NEWSPAPERS. CASE OF MR. HETHERINGTON AND MR. CLEAVE. In the comparatively barbarous days of Queen Ann, the first stamp duty was p u t on p amp hl e t s an d Newspapers—a halfpenny on a half sheet, a penny on a whole sheet. The government then ...

... as we understand it, the positive deter- illation of Ministers to take off the whole of the stamp duty on , newspapers, and to retain the whole of the duty on advertisements. Notwithstanding the authority advanced, and the immense allowance which we ...

... not exist one whole year in England. There was now a surplus revenue, and the government might take off the whole of the stamp duty. He lied seen 20,000/. voted to North America, 80,000/. voted to the Consuls of England—like water from a goblet. Let them ...

... heads :-1. Duties on Articles being Materials of Manufactures, Building, Shipbuilding, &c.-2. Duties on British Manufactures-3. Duties on Articles of Luxury-4. Principal Direct Taxes-5.• The Land Tax-6. Duties on Articles of Food; and-7. Taxes on Capital ...

... Wire's argument as to what was news, the clause of exemptions from the stamp-duty showed what the Legislature thought would have been• deemed news, and chargeable with the duty, but for the exemption afforded by that clause. Among those . exemptions ...

... alternative with us now is, death or victory—a penny stamp or no stamp at Nobody is pledged to the Penny Stamp—the Chancellor is not pledged—the Tories are not pledged—the Whigs are not pledged—but to no stamp at all, the Liberals both in and out of Parliament ...

... ADVERTISEMENT DUTIES. Mr. O'CONNELL, seeing the noble lord (Althorp) in his place, wished to know from him whether a graduated reduction was to be made in the duty on advertisements, or whether that duty was to be reduced to Is. 6d. If the latter was ...

... government to repeal the duty upon sea-borne slates. The right hon. gentleman must be aware that the duty upon sea-borne coals and the duty upon sea-borne slates were collected by one machinery; and that therefore, if the duty upon slates was continued ...