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Collectors. Collecting rates and keeping accounts and
books for same, entering up receipt and deposit book for
all money received, writing and delivering demand notes,
final demands, and all other notices, correspondence,
obtaining summonses and warrants of distress for arrears
of rates, and also commitment warrants for defaulters,
and seeing that same are properly executed, attending Petty
Sessions on hearing of summonses, &c., attending Government
Audits and Revisions of Borough and County Lists
of Voters, and the Revising Barrister, visiting each
tenement to ascertain Christian and surname of new
occupiers, &c., enquiring into claims by ratepayers to be
on the voting lists, and objections to those already on,
making out and delivering forms, and collecting same, and
generally as to these returns.
First clerk. R. C. Carter, 1880, £200 to £250. £200.
To make new rate books, receipt book, to balance rates
twice a year, to make provisional valuation lists every three
months, to revise, check and prepare rate books for parliamentary
and county council elections, prepare and check
rate books for vestry and guardians elections, to attend
meetings of churchwardens and overseers, &c.
Second cierk. T. Kingsbury, 1884, £100 to £150. £150.
To assist in above work.
Third clerk. Arthur E. Flower, 1887, £80 to £120. £100.
To assist in above work.
Fourth Clerk. G. Blunden, 1890, £70 to £110. £80.
To assist in above work.