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should have been given in December, 1890, a special application had to be made to
the Court to allow the notice of appeal to be given out of time, and the Court, after
reading an affidavit by the Vestry Clerk setting out all the facts, allowed an appeal to
be entered and ordered notice of the appeal to be given to the London County Council,
to the Receiver of the Metropolitan Police Fund, to the London School Board, the
Asylums Board, the Guardians, and the Surveyor of Taxes. The Vestry Clerk acted as
Solicitor for your Committee, and also for the Vestry. The appeal was heard on the
2nd of February, 1893, when the London County Council appeared, and, a technical
objection by the Council being disposed of, the Court allowed the appeal, and reduced
the totals of the Quinquennial Valuation by £3,521—the amount asked for. The
result of this decision was that the Vestry became entitled to a return of about
£1,430 from the amounts paid by them to the Metropolitan Authorities.
This work was carried out at an expense to the Respondents (the Assessment
Committee) of £3 10s. 6d., and the whole costs of the Appellants (the Vestry), for
Court and Counsel's Fees, amounted to £12 18s. 8d.
(2) HOXTON HOUSE ASYLUM.
The proprietors of the Hoxton House Asylum, having been inserted in a Provisional
List by the Vestry in respect of additions to their Asylum, objected before your
Committee against the Assessment of the valuation based on Mr. W. Barnett's figures.
The proprietors produced figures before the Committee, and, after going carefully into
the matter, the Committee fixed the Assessment at £1,700 gross, and £1,416 rateable,
and refused to adopt the figures contended for by the appellants, which were £1,620
gross, and £1,350 rateable. The proprietors accordingly appealed to the Court of
Quarter Sessions, and the Vestry Clerk acted as Solicitor for the Committee, who were
made Respondents to the appeal. The appeal was heard on the 13th February, 1893,
and the evidence given on each side was so conflicting that Sir Peter Edlin decided to
"split the difference" between the respective contentions, making the gross £1,660,
and the rateable £1,384. No Order was made as to costs, and, consequently, the
proprietors of the Asylum had to pay their own costs. In the course of the case it
transpired that the proprietors had employed a number of their own workmen, and that
a conservatory and other additions had, since the valuation by the Vestry's Surveyor,
been added to the property. The proprietors have, accordingly, been inserted in a
Provisional List, at an increase in respect of these additions of £125 gross and £104
rateable, and the Assessments now amount to £1,785 gross, and £1,488 rateable—so
that the result of the appeal has, on the whole, been satisfactory.
The out-of-pocket costs in respect of this matter amounted to £6 18s. 4d. for Court
and Counsel's Fees, and £13 7s. 0d. for Mr. Barnett's Fees.
(3) LONDON COUNTY COUNCIL APPEAL.
The London County Council resolved to appeal against the totals of this year's
Supplemental List, as they required the addition of £398 to the rateable value. In
view of the fact that any additions to the totals of the Lists of this Parish involve a