§ MR. CONYBEARE (Cornwall, Camborne)asked Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer, Whether it is the fact that the Local Authorities for the District of Hayle, in Cornwall, have determined to tax all the chapels and schools; whether in any, and what, cases exemption from such taxation is admitted by the law; and, whether such exemption should be permitted in the case of those school-rooms, belonging to certain religious denominations, which are attached to and form portions of the chapels, and are used simply for religious instruction on Sundays, such instruction being given without fee or other payment, and the chapels and schools being erected and maintained by voluntary offerings?
§ THE PRESIDENT OF THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT BOARD (Mr. RITCHIE) (Tower Hamlets, St. George's)(who 1475 replied) said: The Local Government Board have no information as to the proposed action of the Local Authorities in the district of Hayle with regard to the assessment of chapels and schools. As to the oases in which there is an exemption from assessment to the poor rate of churches, chapels, meetinghouses, or premises appropriated to public religious worship, the statutory provisions will be found in the 3 & 4; Will. IV., c. 30.