§ 40. Sir ALFRED BEITasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether, in view of the decline in the yield of the stamp duties, he will now consider amending the Medicine Stamp Acts with the object of rendering all medicines protected by registered names or trade marks liable to duty, even if they be of a known, admitted, or proved nature?
Mr. CHAMBERLAINI do not think that my hon. Friend's suggestion can be accepted, but I am having the present position under the Medicine Stamp Acts examined in order to see whether some amendment of those Acts is desirable.