§ Major POLEasked the Secretary of State for India whether he has received the views of the Government of India concerning the report of Mr. G. S. Hardy on the question of substituting a system of specific duties for the existing system of ad valorem assessment of cotton goods imported into India?
§ Mr. BENNYes, Sir; but I am not in a position to make any statement on the matter before the proposals of the Government of India are laid before the Indian Legislature.