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Money Precepts.— In March the Council informed the Vestry
that the estimated expenditure for the then coming year was
equivalent to a rate of 12.55 pence in the pound over £21,000.
The largest sum the Metropolitan Board of Works had levied
in any year was £14,059 7s. 8d. for 1888; but the precepts of that
Board did not include the County Rate paid by the Board of
Guardians.
COLLECTION OF RATES.
In July, 1888, it was referred to the Finance Committee to
consider and report as to the system of Collection of Rates in this
Parish and whether any and what alterations were desirable.
On the 1st November, the Finance Committee presented a
Report as follows:—
The Committee have had many meetings, and fully considered
the subject of Collection of Rates referred to them. They report
and recommend as follows:—
1. That after the expiration of the current quarter the
mission to be paid to the Collectors shall be one and a quarter
per cent. on the amount of Rates collected and paid into the
bank.
2. That no new person appointed a Collector shall engage in any
business or occupation without the express sanction of the
Yestry.
3. That no Collector shall employ any assistance in collecting
Rates without the consent of the Vestry.
4. That the Collectorship of the South Ward be offered to
Mr. William Isaac Shenton.
5. That the East Ward, for the purpose of the Collection of Rates,
be divided as nearly as possible into two equal parts. That
the present Collectors of the North and West Wards have
the option, according to seniority, to change to one of the
divisions of the East Ward.
6. That the two new Collectors be elected in the usual way (by
ballot), and steps be taken accordingly.
It was thereupon resolved that it be referred to a Committee of
the Whole Yestry to consider the question of the Collectors'