This resulted in the imposition of a stamp duty on various articles.
For the stamp duty on licences, and exemptions therefrom, see 54 & 55 Vict.
There is no stamp duty; but the postage on them is higher than in France.
They pass by delivery, and are as a rule exempt from stamp duty.
Fourpence was paid for stamp duty on each sheet, amounting on the whole to 2000l.
It enacted that after the 1st of October, 1783, stamp duty of 3d.
This will account to you for my doing no better for your 'stamp duty' postscript.
Do you think the people of America would submit to pay the stamp duty if it was moderated?
I have already declined to sign a petition for the removal of the stamp duty on newspapers.
The result was the imposition of a stamp duty of ½d. the sheet on all newspapers of a sheet and a half.
