§ MR. PEEKasked the Secretary to the Treasury, If the Lords of the Treasury 1569 will be willing to cause an inquiry to be made into the relative duties of each of the Clerks employed in the office of the Special Commissioners of Property and Income Tax (Repayments Branch), with a view to its revision, and the adoption of a scale of salaries similar to that which has been recently awarded to the Registrar of Licences and the Warehouse Departments, and which have now been amalgamated, and denominated the "Storekeeper General's Department?"
MR. W. H. GLADSTONEreplied that the salaries of the clerks in this office were fixed as recently as the year 1866, after an inquiry had been made into the subject by the Board of Inland Revenue. The Board were fully alive to the duties discharged in the office, which they considered to be of a character different from those discharged in the Storekeeper General's Department, and they had not recommended the Treasury to make any alteration in the salaries.