The question of the commission charged to the public by the brokers was brought before the Commissioners, but they refused to report in favour of an official fixed tariff, or against sharing commissions with runners, or against the practice of taking a double commission on certain transactions; but they expressed the opinion that where the commission was so divided, or a double commission was so earned, the client should be informed of the fact. As has been shown, this question of double commissions is closely connected with the question of the distinction between the broker and the jobber, and this distinction met with entire approval in the Commissioners' report. On the vexed question of dealings in shares before allotment, the Commission gave the Stock Exchange Committee the credit of having done all that could be expected to cope with it. The Commission attributed the scandals which had arisen, however, to the system under which the Committee first permitted such dealing to take place, and then, when unfair advantage was taken of the permission, refused to enforce the completion of the deals by fixing the special settlement. The Commission had been informed by the representatives of the Stock Exchange that although the Committee would persist in enforcing the fulfilment of bargains in shares before allotment, as debts of honour, even although such bargains were declared by the law of the land illegal, yet, if they were so declared, the rules of the Stock Exchange would be made to conform to the new law. Accordingly the Commission recommended legislation prohibiting dealings before allotment under sufficient penalties--a recommendation which it has hitherto been found impracticable to adopt.