the ENNIS EILEEN CHRONICLE
... The Chancellor the Exchequer observed, that this was one of the annual duties, and produced £3.500,000, and he thought it would ) premature thus to propose to reduce offhand, as it were, such an important branch of the Re- venue. Mr. Hume said those were war duties, and the House was bound honour to reduce them. There was surplus in the revenue of £6,500,000, and why should the country be ...