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Public Baths and
houses
Public Libraries
Now performed by Commissioners,
&c., appointed
by Vestries.
Burials
Administration of Charities, vested in any Vestry or other
parochial body not exclusively ecclesiastical.
8. Assessment Committees.—These are now appointed in some
Parishes by the Vestry, and in others those in Union)
by the Guardians of the Poor. Uniformity of practice is
desirable. It is therefore suggested that the Assessment
Committee should be appointed jointly by the District and
County Councils. This would secure the benefit of local
knowledge combined with uniformity of principle in assessment
and would prevent a repetition of the recent unseemly
difference of opinion between the County Council and Local
Authorities regarding the assessment of property in certain
localities.
9. Audit.—Two Auditors to be elected by the County Electors at the
same time as the District Councillors, and one to be appointed
by the Chairman of the District Council (Sec. 25 of Municipal
Corporations Act, 1882).
110. Rate.—All precepts, whether from central bodies, like the
County Council, or local bodies, like the G-uardians of the
Poor, to be addressed to the District Council, and one Rate
only, to be called the District Rate, to be levied in each
District, except where any portion of a district is subject to
a special charge in respect of any mortgage or other liability
now existing, in which case a special rate would in addition
be levied in the locality subject to the charge. The proportions
levied for the several Metropolitan and district charges
respectively to be distinctly specified in every demand note
served upon the ratepayers.
11. Properties, Debts, and Liabilities.—Properties of localities and
debts and liabilities now secured on any part of a district
to continue to be the property or liability of such district
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