§ MR. WHITLEY THOMSON (Yorkshire, W.R. Skipton); To ask Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will state the total amount received last year by the Government from Solicitors' Certificate Duty.
(Answered by Mr. Austen Chamberlain.) The total amount of duty received during the financial year 1903–4 in respect of solicitors' and conveyancers' certificates was as follows:—England, £110,070 10s.;Scotland, £21,291; Ireland, £10,441 10s.; total £141,803.