Inn remarkable telegram to the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Lady Houston, the widow of Sir Robert Houston, the shipping millionaire (she died in Jersey in April 1 year), has announced her intention, as "an act of grace," to present a the British Exchequer her share Of the death duties that would have hoon paid on Sir Robert's estate if he teen put at about £7,000, will, Lady Wouston's citimatel at ab The claim of the Tr to death duties, which Lady Houston had announced her tion to resist, was estimated to be about £3,000,000. Sir Robert's death in Jersey raised a new point in the law of death duties, the question at issue being whether Sir Robert had, in a definite legal sense, relinquish! ed his British domicile. The Treasury authorities held that. the estate was liable to the British death duties, and the Chancellor of the Exchequer maintained in the House that there was a considerable pr spect of securing duties on the whole amount of the estate.
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