§ MR. HOWARD VINCENT (Sheffield, Central)asked the President of the Board of Trade if, having regard to the great difficulty Chambers of Commerce and Agriculture, and other public bodies, have in ascertaining the statutory maximum charges of railway companies under a variety of Acts obtained over a long series of years, he can either cause a table of such charges to be prepared, or prevail upon the railway companies to issue one, in a form facilitating comparison by those interested with the proposed maximum rates under the Railway and Canal Traffic Act.
§ *SIR MICHAEL HICKS BEACHThe companies have transmitted statements made out in a tabular form as far as possible, showing the existing statutory maximum rates. These statements were not in the first instance supplied to the public, but I caused representations to be made to the companies, and they have undertaken to supply them.