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attention to the importance of the notice and to the fact
that the assessment then to be made would continue in
force for five years. The number of appeals, however, was
not unusually numerous.
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
s.
d
Metropolitan Common Poor Fund, and other
general charges)
2
6
General Rate for the lighting, maintenance, repairing,
and cleansing of streets, watering carriageways,
administration expenses, and precepts of the
School Board of London
1
7
Sewers Rate, for the maintenance, repairing, and
cleansing of sewers vested in the Vestry
0
1
Total
4
2
The rates for each of the two previous years were 3s. 9d.
and 3s. l1d. in the pound respectively.
The following statement shows the amount of the rates
and the collection thereof:—
Poor Rate:—
£
s.
d.
Amount of rate as levied
88,401
7
6
Arrears of former rates
953
1
9
Rates on property assessed during the year
527
8
6
£89,881
17
9
Collected
86,029
4
3¾
Loss from empty houses, &c.
2,256
0
1
Arrears at close of year
1,596
13
4¼
£89,881
17
9