§ SIR W. LAWSON (Cumberland, Cockermouth)I beg to ask the Secretary to the Treasury, whether the Board of Inland Revenue have any power to allow spirits duty free to be supplied by the owners of distilleries to their workmen as a portion of their remuneration?
§ MR. HANBURYIt has always been the practice for the Excise to allow owners of distilleries to issue to their workmen a certain allowance of spirits duty-free. This practice is based not on statutory authority but on the general powers of the board. The daily allowance is limited to two drams; and it has been permitted because it furnishes the best means for the prevention of pilfering.