§ Order for Committee read.
MR. GLADSTONEI propose to go into Committee pro formâ on this Bill, and I think I shall have time to state the changes which will be proposed. The regulation clauses will be amended in detail. The exemption will be reduced to £10. Farmers' land will not be included. The allowance for waste will be 6 per cent. Collection will be monthly. The standard will be 57 per cent for duty, and likewise for drawbacks on exports. The deduction from the permissive charge will be 4 per cent. The drawback to maltsters will be paid in one sum. The private brewer will be allowed to brew only on his own premises. The wine duty clauses will be dropped; the billiard-room keeper will stand exactly as he does now. The relief to hotels will not apply where the hotel keeper has in a separate part of his premises a public-house business. The composition for stamp duties on transfer for municipal stock we propose to fix at a lump sum of 12s. 6d., instead of 8d. per annum. I shall also have to move a Resolution in a separate Committee of the Whole House to raise the duty on public-houses according to a scale, at £5 per £100 rating, from £100 upwards, instead of stopping, as the Bill now does, at £100.
§ MR. CALLANasked whether any alteration of duty had been made with respect to public-houses in Ireland?
MR. GLADSTONEsaid, that would stand for consideration in Committee. They were only going into Committee pro formâ just now.
§ MR. STORERasked whether opportunities of discussing these questions would be given to Members who had Motions on the Paper?
§ Bill considered in Committee, and reported; to be printed, as amended [Bill 255]; re-committed for Thursday 15th July.
§ The House suspended its Sitting at Seven of the clock.
§ The House resumed its Sitting at Nine of the clock.