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QUINQUENNIAL VALUATION.
The year 1900 is the one in which the whole of the work connected
with the Quinquennial Valuation, which comes into operation
on the 6th April, 1901, has to be done.
In order to carry out the necessary procedure in connection with
the preparation of the List, the Overseers are required to serve notice
supplied to them by the Surveyor of Taxes, in the months of February
and March of the year when the Quinquennial Valuation list is made
The Board arranged for the Collectors to serve these forms, an
they have now been received from the Surveyor of Taxes, and delivered.
Immediately the necessary returns are sent in, the Oversee
will proceed with the Valuation.
ASSESSMENT OF GOVERNMENT PROPERTY.
In December, 1899, a letter was received from the Clerk to the
London County Council suggesting that a petition should be pre
sented to Parliament praying that the Assessment Committee
should be empowered to value Government properties, and that the
exemption of such properties from legal assessment should I
abolished accordingly.
The Overseers agreed to the suggestion of the Council, and
petition was presented accordingly.
BASIS OF ASSESSMENT.
During the year 1899, an important Conference of the Loc???
Government and Taxation Committee of the London County Coun???
and representatives of the various Boards of Overseers and Asses
ment Committees throughout the Metropolis held numerous meeting
at the County Hall, Spring Gardens, S.W. Resolutions were adopted
laying down, as far as possible, a uniform scale of Assessment
throughout the Metropolis.
On the whole, the scale does not differ very materially from the
one previously adopted, except in regard to small property where the
rates are paid by the landlord. This scale will very materially reduce
the assessment of properties of this class, which form a very lar???
proportion of the total assessment of the parish. I