§ MR. WILBRAHAM EGERTONsaid, he would beg to ask Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer, Whether he intends to provide any compensation for the parochial officers who have hitherto collected the Income Tax and other Taxes which he proposes to place under the officers of the Inland Revenue?
§ THE CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUERsaid, in reply, that in consequence of the collection of the income and other taxes by Inland Revenue, instead of by parochial officers, the subject of their compensation was under 577 the consideration of the Government, and they proposed to guide themselves by the Bill introduced on the subject by the First Minister of the Crown, when Chancellor of the Exchequer in 1854.