View report page

28
were raised by a separate rate called the Metropolitan
Consolidated Rate. The Council's precepts
in respect of the Parish of Clerkenwell amounted
to £24,619 7s. 4d., divided into portions of
£12,309 13s. 8d. in the first, and £12,309 13s. 8d. in
the second half-year. Under the Local Government
Act constituting the Council, it receives from the
Commissioners of Inland Revenue the produce of
local taxation licenses, including licenses for the
sale of intoxicating liquors, for game, dogs, guns,
auctioneers, tobacco, carriages, hawkers, pawnbrokers,
armorial bearings, &c., &c., together with
two-fifths of the probate duty paid within the County
of London. From these hitherto imperial funds the
Council pays certain public grants formerly paid
from the Imperial Exchequer for Teachers in Poor
Law Schools, Public Vaccinators, Registrars of
Births and Deaths, Pauper Lunatics, Poor Law
Medical Officers, and the Metropolitan Police.
The balance of the Exchequer Contribution Account
remaining after payment of these grants is carried
to the General County Account, and from this
Account the Council have to pay to the Guardians
of every Poor Law Union wholly in London a sum
equal to 4d. per head per day, for every indoor
pauper maintained in that Union. The share of
the Parish of Clerkenwell of the later amount for
the year ending Lady-day, 1896, is £7,886, the
amount being based on the average number of indoor
paupers so maintained during the five financial
years ending on the 25th March, 1888.
The Police precepts for the year amounted to
£8,206 9s. 2d., collected as part of the Poor Rate.
The Library Commissioners precept at 1d. in the
£ amounted to £1,590, and the cost of Registration