§ MR. JEFFREYSI beg to ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much the registration duty of 1s. a quarter (or 3d. a hundredweight) upon imported corn and maize, which was repealed in 1869, would have produced in the last financial year?
§ THE CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUERIf the registration duties on corn, which were repealed in 1869, had been in force in the last financial 1730 year they would have produced £2,479,000—viz., £2,078,000 on grain and £401,000 on meal and flour—assuming, of course, that they had no effect in diminishing the amount imported.