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altered value from the date of the service of a copy of the valuation
immediately after the List is made ; that it should be made clear that
any expenses incurred by a Borough Council in carrying out the
provisions of the Act should not require the sanction of the County
Council; that the rates of reduction from gross to rateable value
should exclude fractions of a; that Government property should
be subject to the same treatment as all other property; that Borough
Councils should appoint at least three-fourths of the Valuation
Committee, and that the system of a quinquennial re-valuation should
be continued, but that each Metropolitan Borough should be subdivided
into five sections, so that the re-valuation might be spread
equally over five years.
75. Councillors Ball and Godfrey Evans were appointed this
Council's representatives to attend a Conference convened by the
Paddington Borough Council, at which the following resolutions were
passed, viz.:—
(a.) That in the opinion of this Conference of Metropolitan, City and
Borough Councils, and Assessment Committees, the provisions of
the Valuation Bill, as applied to London, are impracticable and unnecessary,
and ought to be abandoned.
(b.) That the President of the Local Government Board be asked to
receive a deputation of the Conference at an early date, in order
that its views on the Bill may be laid before him.
76. The deputation afterwards waited upon the President, who
intimated that it was the intention of the Government to proceed with
the Bill, and to apply its provisions with such amendments as might
be deemed expedient to London.
77. At a Conference convened by the London County Council, the
following resolutions were passed with regard to the Bill, viz.:—
(a.) That the Corporation of the City of London and the Councils of the
City of Westminster and the Metropolitan Boroughs, shall be the
Valuation Authorities for the purposes of the Act.
(b.) That, except in the case of the assessment of its own property, the
London County Council shall, in regard to rateable value, have
similar powers to those given by the existing law to Surveyors of
Taxes, in regard to gross value; and that the costs of any appeals
against assessments increased at the instance of the London County
Council shall be borne by that authority out of the County Fund.
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