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The precept for the present year amounts to £7,177 7s. 0d., being at
the rate of 5d. in the £.
Notwithstanding the many remonstrances against the lavish expenditure
of the School Board since the year 1873, and the extreme
dissatisfaction expressed by the Ratepayers in all parts of the Metropolis,
and the deputations to the Council on Education, the London
School Board continue not only to pursue a like course of extravagance,
but to increase it, as will be seen by the foregoing table, the rate
for this District having since the year 1874 increased, in the year
1875, 68 per cent.; 1876, 116 per cent.; and 1877, 139 per cent. The
remedy is to a certain extent with the Ratepayers, who, by re-electing
the same members of the Board, have practically approved this
enormous outlay.
The Decease of a Member.
The Board sincerely regret to announce the death of Mr. Samuel
Hewitt, of Great Russell Street, Surveyor, a late Member of this
Board. During the period he held office he was active and attentive
in his duties.
The Election of a Representative at the Metropolitan
Board of Works.
Borlase Hill Adams, Esq., J.P., of No. 51, Bedford Square, has, for
the seventh time, been unanimously elected the Representative of
this Board at the Metropolitan Board of Works for three years.