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exercise all such powers of entry, inspection, taking
legal proceedings and otherwise, as an Inspector under
the Factory and Workshop Act, 1878."
RATEABLE VALUE.
The Rateable Value of the District at the end of the
year 1883, was—
Lewisham £402,879
Penge 161,560
Total £564,439
Showing an increase on the amounts mentioned in the
last report of—
Lewisham £16,764
Penge 6,972
Total increase £23,736
EXPENDITURE.
Inasmuch as this Board has to collect and pay over to
the different Metropolitan Boards very considerable sums in
the course of the year, it may be well to note that the actual
amount required by this Board during the year under review
for its own purposes, from the Guardians of the Poor of
Lewisham, was only the sum of £33,599, being equivalent
to a rate, on the Rateable Value in force at the commencement
of the year, of a fraction over 1s. 8d. in the pound.
The amount so required from the Overseers of the Hamlet
of Penge was £9,175, being equivalent to a rate of a fraction
over 1s. 2d. in the pound. The amounts which the Board
raised for Metropolitan Bodies, and paid over to them, were:
—For the Metropolitan Board, £14,263 12s. 2d.; for the
School Board, £15,702 17s. 2d. The Metropolitan Board's
Precept for the year ending 31st December, 1884, and embracing
a portion of the year now under review, is £1,199
in excess of the sum thus required; and that of the London
School Board for the same period is £3,369 in excess of the
amount raised for their purposes in the past year.