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The Vestry have carefully watched the Assessed Rates Bill. In the
form it was at first introduced into Parliament it would have afforded
but little relief from the difficulties and hardships resulting from the
abolition of compounding, but changes have been made in it, on the suggestion
of Vestries and Parish officers, which will make it a more useful,
but still very defective measure.
On the completion of the new railway to the Whitechapel Coal Depot,
and the new siding on the main line of the Great Eastern Railway, the
Vestry assessed the line and siding, and the property connected with
them, as follows—
Gross Eental.
Rateable Value.
New Line and Siding
£2500
£2000
Each Arch
50
40
Each Counting-house
12
8
Yard
120
100
In making the assessment, the Vestry wished to keep it low, bearing
in mind that the expected traffic had not been developed. The railway
company appealed against the assessment, and the persons who were considered
as occupiers of the arches objected that they had not such an
occupation as rendered them liable to be rated in respect of the arches,
The railway company agreed to be rated for the arches, and ultimately
the assessment on the whole was fixed for the present at—
Gross Rental £1800 Rateable Value £1500
This assessment will have to be increased if the expectations with
which the new line was constructed are realized, but at present fears arc
entertained that the line is almost a complete failure.
In April, Mr. Rigg, the Town Hall Keeper, resigned, and Mr. David
Brooks was elected as his successor.
ROBERT VOSS,
Vestry Clerk.
Lady-day, 1869.