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on the 2nd October a third resolution was adopted asking for a
further indulgence until Christmas: the Clerk stating that in the
event of the Vestry keeping within its estimates for the ensuing
half-year and an additional penny rate being levied to meet the
increased demand from the London School Board (amounting to
£2,200), he saw no reason why the year's accounts should not be
closed with a cash balance.
The answers given by the Clerk in reply to questions asked by
Messrs. Green and Davis in the Vestry on the 5th February 1896,
printed at pages 17 and 18 of this Report, will sufficiently indicate
the Vestry's financial position at that date.
Parochial Rates.—Upon the motion of Mr. Lane the Finance
Committee was instructed on the 1st May 1895 to draw up a statement
showing cause for the increased rates, "so that the present
"Vestry may be freed from the blame which is now being laid to
" their charge all over the parish of increasing the rates " ; and on
the 29th May accordingly brought up the following explanatory
report, which was adopted by the Vestry, having previously been
printed and circulated among the members :—
Your Committee beg to report that they have considered the subject of
reference instructing them to prepare a statement showing cause for
the increased rates, so that the present Vestry may be freed from the
blame which is being laid to their charge throughout the parish of
increasing the rates.
In the first place your Committee would point out that they were not
responsible for the rates levied for the quarter ending Lady-day
1895 ; and that although the rates levied for the quarter ending 24th
June 1895 are 2d. in the £ in excess of the preceding quarter, they
are not higher than they were for the corresponding quarter last
year, as the following extracts taken from tho demand notes issued
to the ratepayers will prove : —