§ MR. SPOONERsaid, he wished to ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether, in the event of the additional duty imposed upon malt in 1854 ceasing on the 5th day of July next, the Government would give an assurance that a corresponding drawback will be made on stocks of malt then in hand?
THE CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER,in reply, said, that by the present Act the war duties on malt would cease on the 5th of July next, after the exchange of ratifications for a definitive treaty of peace. The practice had hitherto been to allow a drawback upon the existing stock of malt at the time when the duty ceased, and that practice would be followed when the present war duty should have ceased.