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sanctioned by the Metropolitan Board. Thus out of the two precepts,
amounting together to £13,478 6s. Od, £8,692 4s. 8d. will
be raised by mortgage, repayable by annual instalments, extending
over 20 years. After great delay and difficulty, the Board have
succeeded in negociating loans for this sum, at £5 per cent, per
annum. £1,505 16s. 3d. of the amount will be charged upon the
part of the Parish of Lewisham within the former Greenwich District,
and £7,186 8s. 5d., the remainder, upon the part of the
parish within the Ravensbourne District.
The following sums, therefore, together with 10 per cent, on the
amount borrowed (£5 per cent, by way of sinking fund for its
repayment, and £5 per cent, interest,) will alone have to be raised
by rate, viz.:—

Precepts in respect of these sums, with 10 per cent, for sinking
fund and interest on the sums to be borrowed, were issued in respect
of the first Metropolitan precept, in September, 1857, and in
respect of the second, in April last, as follows:—