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RATEABLE VALUE.
Parish of Fulham, London.
Overseers' Offices,
Town Hall,
Walham Green, S.W.
To the Vestry of the Parish of Fulham.
Gentlemen,
We beg to inform you that we have had under consideration the
question of submitting to your Board the details of the business transacted by
us in our capacity as Churchwardens and Overseers of the Poor, and have
unanimously resolved that the same should be furnished to your Vestry. It
also occurs to us that no better opportunity than the present time will be likely
to arise before the termination of our year of office, bearing in mind the fact
that if it were left to a later date the pressure of your business might intercept
the attention we are desirous that you will bestow on the subject matter herein
contained.
It is, therefore, with pleasure that we submit the appended report, containing
a synopsis of the business we have transacted during the larger and more
important portion of the term of our office.
At Lady-day last, the rateable value of the Parish was £403,408, this being
the amount upon which the rate made by us on the 3rd May, 1890, was based,
whilst the rate in collection made by us and allowed by the Justices on the 31st
October last is charged upon a rateable value of £414,654—the increase during
the six months intervening has therefore been £11,246. Since the making of
the present rates, property to the value of £8,328 has been brought into rating,
. showing that since we took office the rateable value has increased in the nine
months, to Christmas last, to £19,574, or nearly £20,000, and at a rate of about
£25,000 per annum.
We further anticipate that the rateable value when the
next rates are made will be approximately as follows:—
Rateable Value as per General Valuation, 1890, coming in
force 6th April next, less Government Property
£425,707
Increase in the meantime
24,293
£450,000