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The Expense of the annual election of Vestrymen and Auditors,
in 1885, was £25 17s. 0d.
Financial.
Expenses
of Election
of Vestrymen.
The precept of the Returning Officer for the proportion
payable by this Hamlet, of the expenses of the election of the
School Board for London, in November 1885, amounted to
£121 17s. 1d.
Expenses
of School
Board
Election.
The Vestry agreed with other parishes that the expenses
were very great, and that there ought to be some detailed
statement given of how the expenses were made up.
Communications have been addressed to the Education
Department, asking for the details, but up to the present they
are declined to be given.
The grant on account of disturnpiked roads has again been
received.
Disturnpiked
Road.
The poor rate shows a slight reduction having been 2s. 11d.
in the £ as against 3s. 1d. last year.
Poor Rate.
The Vestry's Calls for General, Lighting and Sewers Rates
has been as follows:—
For General Rate, equal to 2s. 1½d. in the £.
Lighting „ „ 3d. „
Sewers „ „ 1d. „
As has been frequently before pointed out, the School Board
Precept has to be paid out of the General Rate, and so also has
a part of the precept of the Metropolitan Board of Works.
The School Board precept represents a rate
equal to 9½d. in the £
And the portion of the Metropolitan Board
precept represents a rate of rather more than ½d. „
Making in all 10d. „
so that the amount of the General Rate would be 1s. 3½d. in the
£, and the total rates of the Vestry for its own purposes is. 7½d.
in the £.
General,
Lighting,
and
Sewers'
Rates.