§ 61. Mr. NUTTALLasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether his attention has been called to the practice of the County Courts of requiring a stamped receipt in respect of every sum of £2 or upwards paid out of court to a suitor, even if several such payments are 248 made to the same suitor at the same time; and if he can see his way to arrange for any moneys received through the County Courts to be exempt from stamp duty in view of the heavy poundage charged for the entering of plaints and on the signing of judgment?
§ Mr. McNEILLThere is no exemption from the obligation to stamp receipts for sums of £2 or more in favour of receipts for sums recovered by a suitor in a County Court, and I am unable to agree that receipts should be exempted from Stamp Duty merely because the money has been recovered through a County Court.