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CONTRIBUTIONS TO LOCAL IMPROVEMENTS.
A sum of £1575 has been received under this heading during the past
year :—
The London County Council as successors of the late Metropolitan
Board of Works agreed to pay one half of the net cost of Waterford
Road Improvement (not exceeding £1575, see page 55 of last year's
report), and in accordance with such promise, forwarded the above
amount.
LOCAL TAXATION RETURNS.
Under 23 and 24 Victoria, c. 51, and 40 and 41 Victoria, c. 67, it is
enacted that every Vestry, District Board, &c., shall make a return
annually of the sums levied or received by or in interest of rates, taxes,
&c., and of the expenditure thereof, to one of Her Majesty's Principal
Secretaries of State.
Under the above Acts the Statistical Department of the Local
Government Board issue, during the month of July or August in each year,
a form embracing the various heads of receipts and expenditure and of
loans, &c., employed by local authorities. In the beginning of July, 1889,
forms (in duplicate) for the Local Taxation Returns were received by this
Vestry, and referred to me to fill up. This was duly done on 9th July, 1889.
On my presenting same to. the Finance Committee, they instructed the
Clerk to return the form to the Local Government Board.
The Local Government and Taxation Committee of the London
County Council also sent out forms on the same matter during the month
of August, 1889; they were filled up and returned to them in due course.
PRECEPTS OF CORPORATE BODIES.
The Central Boards issuing precepts on the Vestry are the Metropolitan
Board of Works and the School Board for London. The precept
for the first quarter of the year 1889-90 of the former for the Parish of
Fulham amounts to £3788 3s. 1d., equal to a rate of 27/16 in the £.*
The following statement will show the amounts paid by the Fulham Parish
through the late District Board, the Fulham Vestry, &c., to the Metropolitan
Board, over which they have no direct control.
* The precept of the London County Council, the successors of the late Metropolitan
Board of Works, is made on the Guardians of Fulham Union, and so becomes
chargeable on the Poors Rate instead of the Local Rates, as was formerly the case
with the Consolidated Rate.