Stage-Coach And Mail in Days of Yore; a Picturesque History of the Coaching Age ..
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A mile ; up to ten, \\ih ; not more than thirteen, 2^/. ; not more than sixteen, 2Jf/. , and so on to the impossil^le number of twenty-two, when the license Avould be U4. According to a return made for 1838, the mileage duty paid on stage-coaches in England for that year was £106, 625, showing a total mileage for those twelve months of 10, 530, 000. The Grovernment thus apparently sacrificed £83, 312 10s. In reducing the mileage duty by one-half; but the greatness of the sacrifice was more appa...rent than real, for already railways had begun and coaches were being discontinued on every hand, while a small railway passenger duty of one-eighth of a penny a mile made up for its smallness by the increase in travelling that railways brought. Still later, the passenger duty on coaches was further reduced, and made \\d. A mile on any number of passengers ; "while the annual stage- carriage license was reduced Irom £5 to £3 3s. , and the licence for each coachman or guard from £1 5s. To 5s.
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A mile ; up to ten, \\ih ; not more than thirteen, 2^/. ; not more than sixteen, 2Jf/. , and so on to the impossil^le number of twenty-two, when the license Avould be U4. According to a return made for 1838, the mileage duty paid on stage-coaches in England for that year was £106, 625, showing a total mileage for those twelve months of 10, 530, 000. The Grovernment thus apparently sacrificed £83, 312 10s. In reducing the mileage duty by one-half; but the greatness of the sacrifice was more appa...rent than real, for already railways had begun and coaches were being discontinued on every hand, while a small railway passenger duty of one-eighth of a penny a mile made up for its smallness by the increase in travelling that railways brought. Still later, the passenger duty on coaches was further reduced, and made \\d. A mile on any number of passengers ; "while the annual stage- carriage license was reduced Irom £5 to £3 3s. , and the licence for each coachman or guard from £1 5s. To 5s.
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