CAPTAIN AYLMERasked Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer, If he is aware that the Board of Inland Revenue are demanding payment of the maltsters' licences in July; and, if so, whether he will give instructions that they should be remitted, as they must cease on the 1st of October, and are taken out for one year?
MR. GLADSTONEI believe the Board of Inland Revenue are only doing their strict and imperative duty in requiring those maltsters who intend to make malt between the 1st of July and the 30th of September to take out licences. Should the law pass by which an end will be put to the Malt Tax, three-fourths of the amount so paid will be returned.