§ MR. THOROLD ROGERS (Southwark, Bermondsey)asked Mr. Chancellor 748 of the Exchequer, If it is a fact that Property Tax paid by the Peabody Trustees for the dwellings let by them at profit rentals is remitted by the Treasury, on the ground that the Peabody Trust is a charity; and, if so, whether the Treasury will make a like remission to those Companies and Societies which have been established with the same objects as the Peabody Trust, namely, to provide improved dwellings for the working classes, and so avoid the injustice of unequal taxation of the tenants of the buildings belonging to the respective parties?
§ THE SECRETARY TO THE TREASURY (Mr. HENRY H. FOWLER) (Wolverhampton, E.)(who replied) said, that the Peabody Trustees did not pay a property tax for the dwellings let by them; and if any Company or Society could show that they were exactly on the same footing, no objection to giving them the same relief would be raised.