§ MR. SEXTONI beg to ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether the Inland Revenue Department, on a plea of economy, have intimated their intention, in the exercise of their powers under the Act of 1881, to discontinue their licence for the bonded warehouse of Messrs. Lennox, Dumfries; whether the Department, however, since the passing of the Act of 1881—namely, in 1885, granted a licence to the Glasgow and South Western Railway Company for a bonded warehouse at Dumfries, and in 1891 a similar licence for a warehouse at Dumfries to the Caledonian Railway Company; whether these two warehouses, being less centrally situated than that of Messrs. Lennox, will entail a much greater expenditure for proper supervision by the Department; and whether, having regard to the practically unanimous opinion of the trade in Dumfries, the Department will re-consider their intention with regard to the licence granted to Messrs. Lennox?
§ THE CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER (Mr. GOSCHEN,) St. George's, Hanover SquareThe facts stated in the question, are, in the main, correct 1037 except that economy was not the only ground for the action taken by the Inland Revenue Department. The change will not entail a much greater expenditure for supervision. Messrs. Lennox have written to the Treasury on the subject, and their letter is now under my consideration.