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and recommended the acceptance of the tender of Messrs. C. Smith, Song & Co., Ltd., at the
sum of £482 14s. 6d.
This was approved by the Vestry.
Insurance.
On 16th March, 1897, the Town Hall Committee reported having considered as to the
insurance of the Town Hall buildings : that the buildings were insured in the Sun Fire Office
in the names of the builder and the Aestry in the sum of £12,000, expiring at Michaelmas,
1897.
Resolved—upon the recommendation of the Committee—That the Clerk be instructed to
increase the insurance of the buildings in the Sun Fire Office by the sum of £4,000.
Land Tax.
As reported in the last report the Land Tax on the site of the old Drill Hall, which
forms part of the site of the Town Hall, has been redeemed.
The following is a copy of the Contract and Certificate received from the Registrar of
Land Tax, Somerset House :—
No. 78,779.
Inland Revenue Office.
KNOW ALL MEN that We, Frederic Lacy Robinson, Esquire, C.B., and Edmund
Henry Wodehouse, Esquire, two of the Commissioners acting in the execution of the several
Acts for the redemption of the Land Tax, do hereby certify, that we have contracted and agreed
with the Vestry of the Parish of Rotherhithe, in the County of Surrey, for the redemption by
them of one pound Land Tax, being the Land Tax charged upon,—
All that piece or parcel of land situate and abutting upon the north-east side of Lower
Road, and at the junction of the said Lower Road with Neptune Street, and comprising the site
of the late Drill Hall (afterwards used as the Salvation Army Hall), and more particularly
delineated and described on the plan annexed hereto marked No. 194, and thereon coloured
green:
Which said premises are assessed in the assessment made for the Parish of Rotherhithe, in
the Division of First Last Brixton, in the County of Surrey, for the year 1895-6, as follows,