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MEMORANDUM.
At the commencement of the year the rateable value
of the Parish was £1,038,907, at the end £1,042,179. As
the rates stood at 6s. 2d. in the £ for the whole twelvemonth,
the amount collected might have been expected to
exceed £320,000. The actual receipts were just over
£289,000, or £31,000 less. Nearly £16,000 of the deficiency
is due to empty houses, and over £14,000 to compounding.
Thus a precept nominally of 9d. in the £, calculated on the
rateable value alone, regardless of these causes of loss,
actually necessitates the imposition of a tenpenny rate.
The serious importance of this difference demands consideration,
when the growing expenditure of the great central
bodies—the Asylums Board, School Board, and County
Council, and the Police Authorities—are taken into account.
Already the actual demand exceeds the nominal to the
extent of more than 3d. in the £.
TABLE III.
Disposition of Rates collected in the Parish.
£
s.
d.
1.
Vestry
85,387
3
2
2.
Baths and Wash-houses Commissioners
500
0
0
3.
Guardians for Poor Law
Purposes*
60,005
17
2
4.
Library Commissioners
4,782
17
6
5.
Police Authorities
21,459
6
2
6.
Asylums Board
13,970
16
9
7.
County Council
50,659
11
5
8.
School Board
47,318
3
0
9.
Poundage, Establishment
Charges, &c.
6,797
8
9
£290,881
3
11
* In addition to this they expended £9,336 4s. 4d. received from
the Metropolitan Common Poor Fund, and £15,447 10s. 8d. from the
County Council as repayments under the Local Government Act.