Excise Bonded Warehouses MR. SLOAN (Belfast, S.) To ask the Secretary to the Treasury, whether Excise bonded warehouses are allowed to remain open without an officer being present therein if not, what is the reason why a different practice is followed by the Customs authorities whose warehouses are left open without protection for revenue, except the warehouse keepers' Bond; and whether the Treasury Bonded Warehouse Committee, 1881–3, approved one practice for Excise and a different one for Customs warehouses. (Answered by Mr. Runciman.) I find that there is diversity in the practice of