HC Deb 19 February 1886 vol 302 cc708-9
MR. KING

asked Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer, Whether in view of the fact that Section 179 of "The Tariff and Customs Act, 1876," by providing that— Every person who shall be found to have been on board any ship or boat liable to forfeiture, shall forfeit a sum not exceeding one hundred pounds, and may be taken before a justice to be dealt with, by its terms exposes innocent persons to conviction, he proposes, in accordance with the answer of his predecessor, to take early steps to repeal or alter that section?

THE CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER (Sir WILLIAM HARCOURT),

in reply, said, his Predecessor called for a Report on this subject from the Commissioner of Customs. He would ask that this Report should be communicated to him, and the matter would then receive his consideration.