HC Deb 15 May 1899 vol 71 c686

3. "That, in lieu of the Duties of Customs payable, under the Resolution reported from the Committee of Ways and Means on the fourteenth day of April and then agreed to by the House, on still wine imported into Great Britain or Ireland in bottle, there shall be charged, levied, and paid the same Duties in respect of alcoholic strength as if the wine were in cask, and an additional Duty, the, gallon.… One Shilling."

Ordered, that it be an Instruction to the Committee on the Finance Bill that they have power to make provision there in pursuant to the said Resolutions.—(Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer.)