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REPEAL OF THE WINDOW TAX.Last night a general meeting of the householders of the parish of St James's, Westminster, was held at Willis's Rooms, Brewer-street, Golden-square, to petition Parliament for the repeal of the window tax.There were five or six hundred persons present.. At about half-past seven Colonel Evans, M*P., took the chair amid loud cheers. ; v.The Chairman observed that he was always happy to attend meetings of this sort, convened by his con-s tit u tents, and he hoped the resnU .would to a successful one. As be should again have occasion;, to address them he would not then say more,'Mr. a'Beckett rose to move the first resolution. He said that in some of the old streets of the parish he could find houses that paid as much, or more, for window duty than houses ioiRegent-atreet It was well-known that many windows, inconsequence of the duty, had been blocked up to the serious detriment of health. He knew that many men: had been ruined, because they could not pay this odious tax, for when the tax-gatherer went to destrain the landlord generally followed. In St. James's and St. Anne's the tax bore more oppressively than to any other. Houses paying 301. or 401. per annumpatd as much for window duty as houses did in Great Georee-street, which were at a rental of 2001, or 3001. He had attended the interview with Sir Robert Peel, and although he did not say he was at otice prepared to repeal it, yet he did not as Lord Althorp had done, say he was determined to continue it. There were houses, continued Mr. a'Becket, in Eaton-square, let at 800i. or 9001 a-yesr, which paid no more window duty than houses in Brewer street.' In fact, the large houses paid no more than the house of the industrious tradesman* Then, again, the tax was objectionable on account of the expense of collection, which was one-eighth-of the whole, but that was'not all, for when the goods of a person were seised, the loss to him would oe at least 251, per cent. He contended that if the tax was takes off, it would not cause a diminution of the revenue, for those parties who were more particularly affected by it—the middle classes—would spend the amount in tea or beer, or some other exciseable commodity.— (Cheers.) He then moved the first resolution, which was— Thaf tha tuinHntv.fuT in tin in at in minrivvU tin*
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London, Middlesex, GB
Tue, Apr 07, 1835
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