§ MR. FRANCIS STEVENSON (Suffolk, Eye)I beg to ask the Secretary to the Treasury when the Land Tax Commissioners' Names Bill will be introduced; 1221 whether a memorandum will be issued to Members explaining the steps to be taken by them for the purpose of inserting additional names at the Public Bill Office; and whether the Bill will be drafted in such a form as to admit of an amendment being moved in Committee with the object of abolishing the property qualification of Land Tax Commissioners?
§ MR. HANBURYThe Bill will be introduced before Easter. A circular is being issued to the clerks to the Commissioners of Land Tax instructing them as to the steps to be taken for preparing a list of additional names. The clerks will in due course transmit their lists to the Members of Parliament for the county, division, or place in which the proposed new Commissioners reside, with a request that if the Members do not disapprove of the names they will sign and deliver such lists at the Public Bill Office. Other copies of this circular will be sent to the clerks for transmission to the Members concerned. The Bill will be drawn in the usual form.
§ SIR CHARLES DILKEWill the lists handed in previously stand good?
§ MR. HANBURYYes, so far as the names are not disapproved.
§ MR. STEVENSONI did not quite catch the answer to the third paragraph. Was it in the negative?
§ MR. HANBURYI do not propose introduce the Bill in a form which will admit of more amendment that I can help.