Mr. Alderman Waithmancomplained that the official part of cer- 1309 tain Returns of Imports and Exports, for which he had moved some time since, was still delayed, and begged the Chancellor of the Exchequer to assign the reason of this.
The Chancellor of the Exchequercould assign no other reason than that which the worthy Alderman had already received from the person whose duty it was to make out these returns,—namely, that that person was bound by act of Parliament to make out a very long series of Returns by a certain day of the present month, and that this business occupied the whole of his time and diligence.
§ Sir T. Lethbridgepresented a Petition from certain shopkeepers of Somersetshire, against the traffic carried on by hawkers and pedlers.