§ MR. MCFADDENI beg to ask the Secretary to the Treasury, if he is aware that the Surveyor of Taxes at Londonderry has assessed the County Council of the county of Donegal with income tax on the tolls received by them from the piers in the county, and has, notwithstanding the protest of the Council, refused to deduct from such assessments the amount of the annual instalments paid by the Council to the Board of Works, in respect of the outstanding loans borrowed for the erection of the piers; and whether, seeing that all the piers in the County Donegal, with one exception, are situate in congested districts, and the revenues derived from them are placed by the Council in aid of the rates of the districts in which the piers are situate, directions will be given to the surveyor to remit the assessments or give credit in the assessments for the amounts of the instalments paid by the Council to the Board of Works.
§ MR. AUSTEN CHAMBERLAINThe facts appear to be as stated, and instructions have been given for the assessment to be reduced by such an amount as represents the interest paid to the Board of Works.