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D3580 - Longsdon family of Little Longstone - [14th-20th Cent]
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Archive Reference / Library Class No.	D3580/C/693
Title	22 April 1871 Lord George Cavendish, 3 Upper Eccleston Street to William Longsdon. Afraid Government have introduced 3 measures which will cause dissatisfaction - Local Taxation, Licensing Bills and Budget. Neither Local Tax or Licensing can pass in present forms - Budget bad enough at once doubling legacy and succession duties imposts which fall on them when from distress of mind and change of circumstance least able to encounter, and when generally have to pay a big bill to their lawyer. Struck writer as worse that Mr Lowe should talk of there being no tax on Agricultural Horses as an "exemption" in favour of land and that this should have been cheered by the "below the Gangway" gentlemen. Writer wonders how the Manufacturers would like to have their 100 horse power steam engines taxed and yet one as Longsdon says just as much machinery as other. If Tories had any agriculturalists left among them in the House of Commons, writer is not sure that any 3 such measures would have been fatal to the Government. Mr Goschen's Local Taxation Bill seems to unsettle everything and settle nothing - for shirks most difficult question of all which occupied two committees for 2 or 3 years - on what principle should rating of metalliferous mines be and leaves it to be settled by Parochial Assessment Committee where it will be a fertile cause of dispute. Very doubtful whether division of rates between owner and occupier will be any advantage to latter - in most cases probably lead to revision of rents and will be great difficulty in representing owners at their Boards of Guardians and it would hardly do to leave spending of rates chiefly in the hands of those who only contributed half. Writer does not go quite so far as him about rating personal property as sees great difficulties in it - and would inevitably lead to equalisation of Probate and Legacy duties and breaking up large landed estates. Still might be quite fair to go fully into questions and dissipate any doubts now existing in reference to exemption enjoyed by either class of property, both parties claim that exemptions enjoyed by other outweigh theirs. Writer believes if succession duty fell as heavily on land as legacy duty on personal property no landed estate could survive in its integrity for 3 generations.
Date	1871
Level	file
Repository	Derbyshire Record Office
Archive Creator	Longsdon family of Little Longstone

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