§ MR. M. BIDDULPH (Herefordshire, Ross)I beg to ask Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer, will his proposal to reduce the rate of Land Tax to 1s. in the pound provide for the allowance of that tax to the payers of fee farm rents due 199 to the Crown, or purchased from the Crown under the Acts 22 and 22 & 23 Charles II., at 1s. only in the pound, instead of at 4s. in the pound, as fixed by the Acts of 38 George III, cap. 5, sections 30 and 31, and cap. 60, section 15?
§ THE CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER (Sir MICHAEL HICKS BEACH,) Bristol, W.The allowance to be made in respect of Land Tax to which the hon. Member refers was fixed by the Act 38 Geo. III., cap. 5, at the rate of 4s. in the pound, without reference to the rate at which the tax might be charged on the lands subject to the fee farm rent, and I do not propose to make any alteration in the rate of the allowance. ["Hear, hear!"]
§ MR. A. HUMPHREYS-OWEN (Montgomery)I beg to ask the Secretary to the Treasury, whether he can give a Return showing the quota of Land Tax payable in each county of England and Wales?
§ MR. HANBURYThe Return asked for can be given.