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That Lint as altered by the Annual Supple- Gross. Rateable.
mental Lists up to November, 1889, was £498,798 £406.027
The Increase of Rateable Value in the New List over the
1885 List is £26,347
And over that List in 1889, after the alterations in it by
the Annual Supplemental Lists, £19,227
The Gas Light and Coke Company are appealing generally
against all the assessments made on them by the various Parishes
in the Metropolis.
Complaints had long been made that the assessments in
several large and wealthy Parishes were below the proper scale,
whereby other Parishes were wronged by having to contribute
more than their proper shares to the County Kate, the London
8chool Board Rate, the Police Rate, and the Asylums Board.
It is open to any Parish to appeal against the Valuation Lists
of other Parishes, but the difficulty and expense of doing so
are so great as to be almost deterrent. The County Council, with
the intention of securing uniformity of assessment throughout
London, convened meetings of delegates from the Parishes, to
which were submitted various prepositions as to the proper mode
of assessing various clases of property. These were afterwards
altered in some respects, and as altered adopted and approved.
The Council also prepared scales of rating, including a scale for
property let at weekly and monthly rents. At the commencement
of the Revision in this Parish of the Valuation List, the District
Surveyors of Taxes contended that the scale adopted for assessing
weekly and monthly properties on which the rates and taxes are
paid by the landlord was wrong on the ground that to arrive at
the gross rental too large a sum was deducted on account of rates
and taxes from the aggregate of the weekly and monthly rents.
The subject was fully discussed, and ultimately the Surveyors did
not press the point. When afterwards the County Council Scale
was issued, it was found to agree with the scale used in this Parish,