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rates of the Parish, and very great additions to the Rate Book.
The Committee, at the request of the Overseers, refused to subdivide
the Assessments. The Appeal was heard by Sir Peter
Edlin, Q C, and the other magistrates, and judgment reserved,
but at a later day the Court decided in favor of the Appellants,
with costs, but offered to stale a case for the opinion of the Court
of Queen's Bench, intimating that the case was one of considerable
importance. There is already a somewhat similar case down
for argument before the Queen's Bench Division, and unless the
decision of the Court in that ease is decisive of the present case,
the Overseers have requeued the Committee to accept the offer of
a Special Case and have the decision of the Queen's Bench
Judges on the points involved.
As to Nos. 2 and 3, the Court heard the cases on the
March, 1891, and dismissed both Appeals with costs.
A* to No. 4, the Appellants, after the decision of the Court in
the above cases, withdrew the Appeal.
The Appeal No. 5 has not yet been heard.
As to No. 6, the Appea1 of the London County Council:—
The Council asked to hive the total Assessment of the Parish
Increased as follows, viz.:—
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Grcss £7,340
Rateable £26,433
which sums were atrived at as follows:—
The whole of the claim for the increase in the gross was in
respect of public buildings which had been as alleged underassessed
by the Overseers. These consisted chiefly of the
premises in the occupation of the Lambeth Guardians, but also
included the Vestry Hall, the Wharf in the Belvedere Road, and
the Lambeth Baths, Westminster Bridge Road.
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