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The act which reduces the stamp-duties ow advertisements and on sea insurances, which repeals the stamp -duties on pamphlets and on receipts sums ander and which exempts insurances on farming stoch from stamp-duties, came into operation yesterday.
It is said that the persons interested in the Compensation Fund to • be created by the new bill for regulating the East -India Company, are anxious to secure to themselves as large a proportion of it as possible, . by exelodiog from it the maritime officers in the service of the Com- pany; on the ground, as they say, that they are not the officers of the Company. Parliament, however, will doubtless take especial care that justice is done to those deserviug men, by making it imperative on the Court of Directors to entertain their claiins.—Tinies.
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