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ASSESSMENT OF THE PARISH.
During the past year the Overseers have made out the Quinquennial
Valuation List, and they have also made out and
delivered to the Assessment Committee four Provisional Lists,
Nos. respectively 1,2,3 and 3a.
Notices were served upon all the parlies affected by the
alterations proposed by these Lists, and days appointed for the
hearing of any objections thereto, when the Assessment Committee,
after hearing the various causes, adjudicated thereupon.
1890 being the year for the Quinquennial Valuation List to be
made according to the Act, entailed a very serious addition to
the ordinary yearly work of the Assessment Committee; as in
addition to the appeals on the Provisional Lists before referred
to, the Clerk had to send notices to Appellants to attend the
Committee on Appeals against upwards of 4000 Assessments in
the Valuation List
The Committee appointed seven whole days to hear the
appeals to the Valuation List, and had other adjourned days to
enable the appeals to be disposed of. The Committee had also
to sit in October to consider the objections to the List, as revised
by the Committee. In all the Committee sat eleven whole days,
and on thirteen other occasions, making 24 Meetings in all.
After the Valuation List had been made out by the Overseers
and left with the Committee, the London County Council invited
all the Assessment Committees of the County of London to
send Delegates to attend a Conference to be held at the County
Hall, Spring Gardens, to decide on the general principles to be
laid down in settling the Values of Propeity to be inserted in the