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Shoreditch 1892
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Shoreditch, Parish of St. Leonard]
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VALUATION (METROPOLIS) ACT, 1869.
The following return shows the alterations effected in the total gross and rateable value of the Parish during the year:-
| Particulars. | Value as finally determined by Assessment Committee. | |
|---|---|---|
| Gross. | Rateable. | |
| £ | £ | |
| Valuation (6th April, 1892) upon which the County and Police Rates were levied | 833,118 | 682,476 |
| Increased Valuation effected by Supplemental Valuation List, 1892, as finally deposited | 3,447 | 2,793 |
| 836,565 | 685,269 | |
| Reductions made by the Court of Quarter Sessions on the Vestry's appeal against totals, to correspond with the reductions made by that Court on the appeals of individual ratepayers and so as to save payment of General Metropolitan Precepts | 499 | 3,521 |
| Total Valuation (6th April, 1893) upon which the County and Police Rates are levied | £836,066 | £681,748 |
| Total Valuation (6th April, 1893) upon which the Rates for School Board and Local Purposes are levied | £829,534 | £676,465 |
LITIGATION AND LEGAL WORK.
(1) APPEAL AGAINST TOTALS.
The reductions made by the Court of Quarter Sessions on the 1890 Quinquennial
Appeals amounted to £3,521 in the rateable value, but on a motion by the Islington
Vestry in a similar case to have the totals of their lists altered, to correspond with
similar reductions in their Quinquennial Valuation Totals, the Court dismissed the
application with costs, and refused to alter the totals of the lists, except upon an appeal
against "totals," as the Orders of the Court made in the respective appeals only
affected the individual assessments. In consequence of this decision, this parish would
have had to pay five years' General Metropolitan "Precepts," at about 3s. 3d. in the
pound, on the reduction made in the Ratepayers' Assessments. This would have
amounted to a sum of about £2,860, and could not have been recovered from the
individual ratepayers, as their Assessments had been reduced and altered by the
Court. The Vestry Clerk accordingly advised that an appeal should be lodged against
the "totals." This appeal had to be in the form of an appeal by the Vestry acting
as Overseers, and your Committee were made Respondents. As notice of this appeal