§ MR. C. T. DYKE ACLAND (Cornwall, Launceston)I beg to ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether he has taken into consideration the case of some Excise officers who, notwithstanding the general increase in their salaries and prospects, happen for the time to be adversely affected by the abolition of extra payment formerly paid to them for the collection of acreage returns of agricultural statistics?
§ THE CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER (Mr. GOSCHEN,) St. George's, Hanover SquareThe Treasury has authorised the Board of Inland Revenue to make arrangements by which no Excise officer shall have a smaller income this year than he had last in consequence of the recent introduction of the new scale of salaries.