OF THE NEWSPAPFR STAMP.
The following account of the origin of the newspaper stamp is given by Mr. Cooke, in his " Life of Bolingbroke :"— " Queen Anne, in. one of her messages to Parliament, • declared, that, by seditious papers and factious rumours, designing men had been able to sink credit, and that the innocent had suffered; and she recommended the House to find a remedy equal to the mischief. In obedience to the Queen's desire and at the instance of her Secretary, the Parliament passed a bill, in 1712, imposing a stamp duty upon pamphlets and publications. At its origin, the amount of this stamp was a halfpenny: and it is curious to observe what an effect this trifling impost had upon the circulation of the most favourite papers.' Many were entirely discontinued,, and several of those which survived were generally united into one publication."
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Colonist, Issue 19, 25 December 1857, Page 4
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144OF THE NEWSPAPFR STAMP. Colonist, Issue 19, 25 December 1857, Page 4
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