SECOND REPORT

OF THE

COMMISSIONERS OF HER MAJESTY'S INLAND REVENUE

ON

THE INLAND REVENUE.

Presented to both Houses of Parliament by Command of Her Majesty.

PRINTED BY GEORGE E. EYRE AND WILLIAM SPOTTISWOODE, PRINTERS TO THE QUEEN'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY.

FOR HER MAJESTY'S STATIONERY OFFICE.

1858.

Licences for Sale of Beer and Spirits, effect of limitation in Scotland

APPENDIX.

Decennial Account of Gross Receipt of the several Duties of Excise to the 31st March 1858, inclusive

The same Account of Stamp Duties

The same Account of Land and Assessed Taxes and Property and
Income Tax

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EXCISE:

Account of the Quantities of each article charged with Duty, in England, Scotland, and Ireland respectively, in the years ended the 31st March 1857 and 1858

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LEGACY AND SUCCESSION DUTY:

Return of the amount paid at each Rate in the years ended the 31st March 1857 and 1858

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TAXES:

Account of the articles charged in the years ended the 5th April 1856 and 1857, and the amount of Duty thereon

PROPERTY AND INCOME TAX :

Account showing the annual amount charged under each Schedule for the years ended the 5th April 1856 and 1857, and the amount of Duty

Report by Mr. Phillips on the possibility of Separating the Naphtha from the Alcohol in Methylated Spirit

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Correspondence with the Colleges of Physicians of London, Edinburgh, and Dublin, on the use of Methylated Spirit for Pharmacopoeial preparations

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Report by Mr. Phillips on the supposed Poisonous Effects of Paper Hangings coloured with Arsenite of Copper

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SECOND REPORT.

TO THE LORDS COMMISSIONERS OF HER MAJESTY'S TREASURY.

MAY IT PLEASE YOUR LORDSHIPS,

WE have the honour to submit our Second Annual Report.

It will probably be convenient that, in this and future Reports, we should observe the same arrangement of subjects as on the first occasion; but it will, of course, be unnecessary for us to furnish such voluminous accounts as those which appeared in the Appendix last year. Our statement will now be limited, for the most part, to the transactions of the preceding twelve months, and it will be much simplified in consequence of your Lordships' permission that it should be made after the close of the financial year, instead of the year ending on the 31st December.

EXCISE DUTIES.

GROSS RECEIPT in the Years ended 31st March 1857 and 1858.