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This was a slight reduction in the value as given in the
Lists which came into force in April, 1886, on the quinquennial
Valuation, when the figures were—
Lewisham £443,502
Renge 165,375
£608,877
LOCAL EXPENDITURE.
As this Board has to collect and pay over to the different
Metropolitan Boards very considerable sums in the course
of the year, it is usual in the Board's Report to cull attention
to the actual amount required by the Board during the year
under review for its own purposes. The sum required in the
past year from the Local Guardians of the Poor of the Parish
of Lewishum, was only £34,352, being equivalent to a rate,
on the Rateable Value in force at the commencement of the
year, of a triflo over Is. 6¼d. in the pound. The amount so
required from the Overseers of the Hamlet of Penge was
£9,516, being equivalent to a rate of a fraction under Is. 2d.
in the pound. The amounts raised by the Board for
Metropolitan bodies, and paid over to them, were:— For
the Metropolitan Board, £17,660; for the School Board,
£22,684.
SALE OF FOOD, &c., ACTS.
Proceedings have been taken under these Acts, and
during the year now closed 87 samples of food were analysed
—82 proved to be genuine, 5 were adulterated. In these
cases summonses were applied tor and issued, and on the
hearing of the cases at the Police-courts penalties were inflicted
by the Magistrates. The constant exercise of the
provision of these Acts in the District has doubtless had a
most beneficial effect.
Ratepayers are invited to avail themselves of the Acts,
for which purpose full particulars of the facilities offered by
the Board were given by public notice, as set out in