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RATEABLE VALUE.
The Assessment of the Parish, according to the valuation
list which came into force on the 6th of April, 1886, was as
follows:—
Gross value £831,835
Rateable value £694,201
Since the preparation of that list several properties have
been taken down, and a few houses which have been re-built
or altered have come into rating. The alterations in assessment
thus made increase the totals of the Valuation List to
the following amounts:—
Gross value £858,673
Rateable value £715,958
RATES
were made by the Vestry during the year as follows:—
Amount in.
the Pound.
Poor Rate (including, in addition to charges for the
Relief of the poor, Police Rate, expenses of the
London County Council, contributions to the
Metropolitan Common Poor Fund, and other
general charges)
s.
d.
2
3
General Rate for the lighting, maintenance, repairing
and cleansing of streets, watering carriageways,
administration expenses, precepts of the School
Board of London, and proportion of the Bridge
Expenses of the Metropolitan Board of Works
1
4½
Sewers Rate, for the maintenance, repairing, and
cleansing of sewers vested in the Vestry
1
Metropolitan Consolidated Rate, for meeting the
final precept of the Metropolitan Board of Works
so far as relates to the Fire Brigade, Main
Drainage, Metropolitan Improvements, and
general expenses of the Board
2½
Total
3
11
The rates for each of the two previous years were 3s. 9d.
and 3s. 10d. in the pound respectively.