 It had as treasurer Richard Moore, who conducted a steady activist role in the abolition of the newspaper stamp duty.Via the intermediate National Stamp Abolition Committee, by making the central organisational vehicle the new Association for Promoting the Repeal of Taxes on Knowledge (APRTOK, also called Society for the Repeal of the Taxes on Knowledge) he was able to involve Richard Cobden.Cobden had already publicised in 1848 his wish to remove some of the taxes.