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PROPERTY ACCOUNT.
This account, which was opened in March, 1887, with a view of keeping
separate from the Rate Accounts, as far as possible, the cost of purchasing
and providing stables, wharf, mortuary, &c., has now been closed, and the
following details are abstracted therefrom:-
Date
Receipts.
£
s.
d.
Date
Receipts.
£
s.
d.
1887
Trustees of the late Fulham
District Board for
part of their cash assets
774
15
0
1887
Cost of Freehold site for
stables, Munster Road
1,500
0
0
1888
Do. do. wharf, Putney
Bridge
1,500
0
0
1888
Do. do. (paid by the
Hammersmith Vestry)
7,241
3
1
„
Do. do. Town Hall site
Fulham Road, S.W.
2,890
0
0
„
Metropolitan Board of
Works, for stable and
wharf site loan
3,000
0
0
1889
Cost of erecting stables,
paving and draining
yard, building workshops
&c. (total cost
£5,826 1s. 8d.) charged
to this account
5,563
14
4
1889
London County Council
for loan to erect stables
5,100
0
0
1890
Do. do. to construct
wharf
2,500
0
0
1892
Bowden & Co. for half
cost of party wall at
Toll House Wharf, S.W.
35
18
11
1890
Cost of erecting public
Mortuary, Coroner's
Court, &c., charged to
this account
1,023
11
7
1891
Cost of constructing
wharf at Old Toll
House site, erecting a
steam crane and building
party wall, &c.,
charged to this
account
2,560
5
10
1892
Balance transferred to
the Town Hall Building
Account to reduce
the excess of expenditure
over receipts on
that account
3,614
5
3
£18,651
17
0
£18,651
17
0
TOWN HALL FUND.
During the year 1891-92 the Vestry expended a further sum of
£2,598 14s. 6d. for extra furnishing, fitting, permanent works, and
professional charges, thus increasing the deficit on this account to
£8,761 13s. 9d., while to liquidate this debt and close the account, (which
was opened in October, 1886, for the purpose of providing funds for the
election of a Town Hall and offices for the Parish) the Vestry charged to
the current rates the sum of £1000, transferred the unused balance of the
Property Account, viz., £3,614 5s. 3d., and took the sum of £4,147 8s. 6d.
from the Improvement Account, (being the difference in final adjustment
between the improvements effected out of current rates and the loans
obtained thereon, together with sums received for diverting roads, paths,
&c.) Annexed is a statement of the cost incurred in the erecting, furnishing
&c. of the building:-