HC Deb 01 March 1805 vol 3 c677
The Chancellor of the Exchequer

informed the house, that, upon looking into the bill for levying a duty upon horses, it was found that it would be impossible to divide it, as he had proposed doing on a former night. The body of the bill contained nothing but matter of regulation which might apply, generally, to the collection of the duty on any description of horses. The amount of the tax was afterwards specified in a schedule. He should therefore, move that the duty upon agricultural horses be expunged from the schedule, as that appeared to be the exceptionable part; and he would afterwards bring in a separate bill for the levying of that tax.—The bill as far as it relates to the tax upon all other horses but those employed in purposes of husbandry, was then passed through a committee of the whole house, and the report was ordered to be received on Monday.