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VALUATION LIST.
Mr. Arthur Harston, of No. 31, East India Dock Road, Surveyor, was
appointed to assist in determining the assessments to be made on the
Railway, Gas, Water, and Tramway Companies.
At the date of this Report the East London Railway has not been
assessed, but the Company pay, as provided by their Act on the
property taken by them under the Act. When the line is completely
finished it will have to be assessed, but at present it is not clear the
Parish will gain by it. The assessment of the Great Eastern Railway
is still in dispute. The following table shows the gross and rateable
values of the parish in the Valuation List, which came into force in
1871, and the alteration of those values by the Supplemental Lists in
each successive year up to the present year.
187 1 Gross 337,500 Rateable 270,524
187 2 „ 341 626 273,933
187 3 „ 345,814 277,349
187 4 „ 352,768 283,160
187 5 „ 361,150 289,940
New Valuation List]
which comes into I „ 391,916 316,946
force in April, 1876,'
It is estimated that on the new assessment a penny rate will produce
about £1,130, being an increase of £80 over the produce of a penny
rate on the old assessment.
MISCELLANEOUS.
After consideration, the Vestry agreed to accept the offer of Mr.
Griffiths, the Paving Coutractor, to continue his subsisting contract
on the price for re-laying Carriageway, Paving being raised 6d. per
yard super.
The price now paid under this arrangement is Is. 9d. for re-laying
Carriageway Paving, and the price paid for new 3-inch York laid is
(as mentioned in the last Report) 10½d. per foot.
In consequence of the small number of Analyses which the analyst
had been called on to make, it has been thought desirable to vary
the arrangement made with him, and with his consent, instead of the