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Prefatory Note. 3
Saint George the Martyr, Southwark.
SEVENTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE VESTRY.
PREFATORY NOTE.
The Seventh Annual Report of the Vestry of this Parish, being that for the Year
ending on the 25th of March, 1863, is prepared and published in pursuance of the
Provisions of the Metropolis Management Acts.
The particulars of the Sanitary condition of the Parish will be found in the Report of
the Medical Officer of Health and the Tables connected therewith. The Vestry Accounts,
duly vouched as the law requires, and the other Statements herein contained, shew the
general Proceedings of the Vestry. Besides the Accounts of the Churchwardens, and those of
the Overseers and the Guardians relating to the Poor Rates, which are given as usual, there
are now subjoined (p.p. 36-38) the Accounts which, pursuant to the Act of last Session, the
Overseers have rendered relating to the rates raised by them under the Orders of the Vestry.
It is matter of congratulation to the Parishioners at large, that during the year has
been effectively completed the arduous, difficult, and anxious process of revising the rating
of that portion of the property in the Parish which was unduly rated below the general
Assessment of the Parish. The result, as reported to the Vestry on behalf of the
Assessing Committee, was, that, without the introduction of any new principle of valuation
whatever, but merely by the fair and equitable application of those principles of Assessment
which have been all along in operation in the Parish, the total of the Assessments of
the Parish, which had been £125,724, became £139,179. The difference £13,455 is equivalent
to a permanent reduction of the Poor Rate throughout the Parish equal to nearly sixpence
in the Pound per annum, and a corresponding reduction of all the other Parochial
Rates. The special thanks of the Vestry to the Assessing Committee and to the Vestry
Clerk in relation to this business are recorded in the minutes of the Vestry under date
April 7th, 1863.
On application to the undersigned at the Vestry Hall, any Parishioner will be furnished
with a Copy of this Report.
DANIEL BIRT,
Vestry Clerk.
Vestry Hall, Borough Road,
June lst, 1863.