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was £52,000, being equal to a rate of Is. 10'd. in the pound
on the rateable value then in force. This year the Board
raised £55,000, which sum, owing to the increase in the
rateable value, was equivalent to a similar rate (1s. 10d.)
in the pound.
The contributions received on behalf of the Parish of
Lewishain from the London County Council, oursuant to
the London (Equalisation of Rates) Act, 1894, amounted to
£4,298 2s. 11d.
The sum raised by Precept in the Hamlet of Penge
was £13,00", or exactly the same amount as that raised
in the previous year. This is equivalent to a rate of Is. 8½d.
in the pound on the rateable value of the Hamlet, or rather
less than last year's rate.
The sum received from the London County Council
in respect of the Equalisation of Rates Act, 1894, for
Penge, was £1,003 Is. 3d.
SCHOOL BOARD PRECEPT.
The s ? "aised under the Precept of the School Board
for London, and paid over to that Board was £36,337 11s.
10d., or £552 1s. 9d. in excess of that of the preceding
year.
LOANS.
The total indebtedness of the Board on the Loan account
at the 25th March, 1899, was £83,653 2s. 7d.
The following statement of the loan debt shows the
changes made in the same in the six years ended 25th
March, 1899, and the amount outstanding at the end of each
financial year in that period:—