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Street Improvements, and other works projected and carried
out during the year; and the Applications or Notices relating
to house building and drainage, new streets, and all
other works.
EXPENDITURE.
The Expenditure in Lewisham for purposes raised by
rate does not show any increase. The sum raised by Precept
last year was £45,000, or an equivalent of 21'29d.
in the £ on the rateable value then in force. This year the
Board have raised a similar sum, but owing to the growth
of the District, and to the sums received under the provisions
of the Equalisation of Rates Act (£2,508 16s. 4d.), the
amount raised is equivalent to l.27d , or 1¼d. in the £
less than last year.
In Penge the expenditure shows a slight increase over
that of the previous year, on account of the provision made
for repayment of loans raised for carding out the Surface
Drainage Works it has been necessary to construct for the
relief of flooding. The amount raised was £12,042, being
equivalent to 19.80d in the £ on the rateable value then in
force. The sum received in accordance with the provisions
of the Equalisation of Rates Act, was £644 7s. 10d.
The sum raised under the Precept of the School Board
for London, and paid over to that Board was £31,783 0s. 11d.
RATEABLE VALUE.
The Rateable Value of the District, at March, 1890,
was—
£
Lewisham 539,527
Penge 153,224
£692,751