§ MR. WEIRTo ask the Secretary of State for India if he will state the value of the salt sold annually to each Native State of India, with the population of each such State.
(Answered by Mr. Secretary Brodrick.) If, as I presume, the Question has reference to the salt supplied in specified quantities and on privileged terms by the British Government to certain Native States under special treaty engagements, I will ask the Government of India to have such a Return prepared.
§ Questions in any more precise form than that of the statement as to the Inland Revenue Procedure, which was published in House of Commons Paper, No. 155, of 1904. House of Commons Paper, No. 176, of 1890, may also be referred to. To give instances of recent valuations of licensed premises for purposes of estate duty would probably be only misleading, as so much must depend on the nature and amount of an interest passing o death and on the particular circumstance of each case.