§ MR. CORRANCEasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department, Whether it is in consequence of instructions issued to the Clerks of the Peace for Counties "That Magistrates' Orders for the payment of penalties, according to the Stamp Act 1870 (33 and 34 Vic. c. 97), are to be held liable to a stamp," so that if the defaulter does not pay the county will be rendered liable to the above charge?
MR. BRUCE, in reply, said, no such instructions had been issued either from the Home Office or the Treasury, and he thought it highly improbable that they had been issued from any other Department of the Government.