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Bethnal Green 1873
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Bethnal Green]
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LIABILITIES.
Amount unpaid of Mortgages, granted by the late Paving Commission, and chargeable on the General Rate, £14,100.
Compensation Annuities of £30 each, payable for life to two Collectors of the late Paving Commission.
£1,000 —Balance of Mortgage of Sewers Rates for £5,000, borrowed of the Provident Life Office in May, 1857, for defraying cost of construction
of New Sewers, and to be repaid by twenty equal annual instalments, with interest at 5 per cent.
£1,500—Balance of Mortgage of Sewers Rates for £5,000, borrowed of the Eagle Assurance Company in August, 1859, for defraying cost of
construction of New Sewers, and to be repaid by twenty equal annual instalments, with interest at 4½ per cent.
£3,500—Balance of Mortgage of Rates for £7,000. borrowed of the London Life Association in December, 1863, for defraying cost of
construction of New Sewers, and to be repaid by twenty equal annual instalments, with interest at the rate of 5 per cent. per annum,
to be reduced to £4 10s. per cent. per annum on payment of the instalments of principal and interest within thirty days after they
respectively become due.
£6,000—Balance of Mortgage of Rates for £10,000, borrowed of the Corporation of the Royal Exchange Assurance in December, 1865, toward8
defraying cost of Paving Footways of "Old Streets," and to be repaid by twenty equal annual instalments, with interest at 5 per
cent. per annum.
£7)000—Balance of Mortgage of Rates for £10,000, borrowed of the Corporation of the Royal Exchange Assurance in July, 1867, towards
defraying cost of Paving Footways of " Old Streets," and to be repaid by twenty equal annual instalments, with interest at 5 per cent.
per annum.
£11,200—Balance of Mortgage of Rates for £16,000, borrowed of the London Life Association in December, 1867, for defraying the cost of
Paving the Carriageways of Hackney Road and Whitechapel Road, and to be repaid by twenty equal annual instalments, with interest
at 5 per cent. per annum, to be reduced to £4 10s. per cent. per annum on payment of the instalments of principal and interest within
thirty days after they respectively become due.
£5,600—Balance of Mortgage of Rates for £7,000, borrowed of the London Life Association in April, 1869, for defraying the cost of Paving the
Carriageway of Green Street, and the unpaved portion of the Carriageway of Bethnal Green Road, and to be repaid by twenty equal
annual instalments, with interest at 5 per cent. annum, to be reduced to £4 10s. per cent. per annum on payment of the instalments
of principal and interest within thirty days after they respectively become due.
£8,000—Balance of Mortgage of Rates for £10,000, borrowed of the London Life Association in March, 1870, for defraying the cost of Paving the
Footways of " Old Streets," and to be repaid by twenty equal annual instalments, with interest at 5 per cent. per annum, to be reduced
to £4 10s. per cent. per annum on payment of the instalments of principal and interest within thirty days after they respectively
become due.
SEWERS RATE.
| RECEIPTS. | ! PAYMENTS. | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| £ | s. | d. | £ | s. | d. | ||
| Amount paid into the Bank, subsequently to Lady-day, 1873, of Rate made at Christmas, 1872 | 187 | 1 | 8 | Balance at Lady-day, 1873 (being an excess of Expenditure over Receipts) | 896 | 9 | 7 |
| Amount of Rate at 2d. in the £, made at Midsummer, 1873, and Arrears of former Rate collected at Michaelmas | 1981 | 7 | 1 | Collectors' Poundage | 57 | 11 | ii |
| Cleansing, Repairing, and Flushing Sewers | 563 | 9 | 0 | ||||
| Amount of Rate at 2d. in the £, made at Christmas, 1873, and Arrears of former Rate collected at Lady-day, 1874 .. | 1419 | 0 | 0 | Incidentals.—Brick, Lime, Cement, Stoneware, Glazed Pipes, Gully Gratings, Brooms, Lanterns, Repairs, &c. | 70 | 5 | |
| Balance at Lady-day, 1874 (being an excess of Expenditure oyer Receipts) | 306 | 6 | 5 | Metropolitan Board of Works, pursuant to Precept for proportion of Liabilities existing before the expiration of the " Metropolitan Sewer Act, 1848 | 160 | 3 | |
| Provident Life Office.—Interest on Balance of Mortage for One Year at Five Per cent. | 55 | 10 | 11 | ||||
| Ditto Sixteenth Annual Instalment of £-5,000, advanced on Mortgage 7th May, 1S57 | 250 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| London Life Association.—Interest on Balance of Mortgage for One Year, at 4½ per Cent. | 171 | 1 | s | ||||
| Ditto Tenth Annual Instalment of £7,000, advanced on Mortgage 30th December, 1863 | 350 | 0 | |||||
| Eagle Assurance Company.—Interest on Balance of Mortgage for One Year, at 4½ per Cent | 76 | 4 | |||||
| Ditto Fourteenth Annual instalment of £5,0OO, advanced on Mortage 4th Augest1859 | 250 | 0 | |||||
| Half of Payments for Printing, Books, Stationery, Overseers' Expenses, Stipends, and Sundry Charges common to the General and Sewers Rates | 992 | 19 | 6 | ||||
| £3,893 | 15 | 2 | £3,893 | 15 | 2 | ||