§ MAJOR RASCHI beg to ask Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer whether his attention has been called to the following result of agricultural depression in Essex, owing to derelict and unoccupied land in the parish of St. Lawrence, the quota of land tax required renders an assessment of 5s. 10d. in the £ necessary, but that a higher assessment than 4s. is illegal; and, what he would suggest under the circumstances?
§ THE CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUERI have no information to give on this subject.