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ACCOUNTS.
At the commencement of the year the rateable value
of the Parish was £1,042,179, at the end £1,049,762. As
the rates stood at 6s. 0d. in the £ for the whole twelvemonths,
the amount collected might have been expected to
amount to about £314,000. The actual receipts were just
over £285,500, or £28,500 less. Nearly £13,500 of the
deficiency is due to empty houses, and over £14,500 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.

'In addition to this they expended £10,304 10s. received from the
Metropolitan Common Poor Fund, and £19,041) 15s. 2d. from the County
Council as repayments under the Local Government Act.