REGISTRATION EXPENSES—RELIEF AS TO BOROUGHS.

HC Deb 04 May 1885 vol 297 c1517

SIR MASSEY LOPES

asked, Whether the Government proposed to give any relief to the boroughs as well as to the counties?

SIR CHARLES W. DILKE

said, that the hon. Gentleman's own Friends had not proposed in 1868 to make such a suggestion. The present proposal was a temporary one, and would be open to the revision of the next Parliament. The work had scarcely increased at all in the boroughs, and, indeed, had long been less than it had been in 1868.