§ MR. GRAY (Essex, Maldon)I beg to ask the President of the Board of Trade if he can state the annual cost of collecting the Market Corn Returns?
§ * SIR M. HICKS BEACHExcept a small charge for the salaries of Inspectors at London and Cambridge, and the rents of stalls in markets, the cost of collecting the Corn Returns is included in the salaries of the officers of the Inland Revenue; but the work represents so small a proportion of the duty of each officer that the charge for it cannot be estimated.