902 DR. BABASAHEB AMBEDKAR : WRITINGS AND SPEECHES
as a consequential provision, to add to article 250 which contains clauses (a) to (d) enumerating the taxes to be distributed, ‘proceeds of any taxes on Stock Exchanges and futures market’, so that they too will be subject to distribution among the provinces. That would, I am sure, remove all doubts that certain Members have that this entry if it remains in List I would give power to the Centre to appropriate the taxes. That is not the intention. The entry there is purely legislative. It would have no financial implications at all.
Pandit Hirday Nath Kunzru : (United Provinces : General): May I ask Dr. Ambedkar whether he intends also to bring in a modification of article 277 in this connection?
The Honourable Dr. B. R. Ambedkar : Well, I shall consider any consequential provision necessary to bring in to make the matter consistent.
[ Entry 79 was added to the Union List .]
ENTRY 81
*Shri Brajeshwar Prasad : Mr. President, Sir, I beg to move :
“That for amendment No. 3572 of the List of amendments, the following be substituted :—
“That for entry 81 of List I, the following be substituted :—
“81. Duties in respect of succession to property including agricultural land.”
† The Honourable Dr. B. R. Ambedkar : I may mention, Sir, that this matter was considered at the conference with the Provincial Premiers. They were of option that, although the principle might be sound, they were at the present moment not prepared to make this radical change.
[The amendment of Mr. Brajeshwar Prasad was withdrawn and Entry
81 was added to the Union List.]
ENTRY 83
‡ Mr. President : There are two amendments to this.
The Honourable Dr. B. R. Ambedkar : Sir, I move :
“That in entry 83 of List I, after the word ‘railway’ a comma and the word ‘sea’ be inserted.”
The intention is to complete the entry by the addition of the word “sea” which was inadvertently omitted.
*CAD, Vol. IX, 1st September 1949, p. 833.
† Ibid., p . 835.
‡ Ibid., p. 836.