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the exception of the Metropolitan Railway Co., who appealed to
the Assessment Sessions, where a reduction was made, by
consent, to £24,500 gross and £22,000 rateable value, the Company
paying costs.
Some 400 appeals were made to the Union Assessment
Committee against the smaller assessments, but the large majority
of these were dismissed, and the valuations sustained.
The scale of assessment of weekly property
became a question at the Union Assessment Committee, the Surveyor
of Taxes having taken exception to the mode adoptedin some
other Parishes in the Union as compared with that of Clerkenwell,
which he appeared to approve. Thereupon the Committee
asked for Returns from the various parishes as to the mode
adopted by the Overseers (otherwise the Vestries,) in regard to
this class of property ; which having been furnished, they considered
the scale, which had been adopted and acted upon by
this Vestry for some years past, to be so fair and correct, that they
adopted itas the standard for the whole of the Union for the future,
and revised the assessments of the other parishes accordingly.
The final totals of the Valuation List of the Parish are
£392,869 gross, and £327,604 rateable value.
The gross and rateable values in the parish, were:—
gross.
rateable.
In 1856
£244,527
£196,480
1869
291,793
235,657
1871 (Under New Valuation Act of 1869)
311 997
255,347
1876
Do.
Do.
338,518
277,655
1881
Do.
Do.
392,869
327,604
Thus showing that the gross annual rental value of the rateable
property in the parish had increased by £47,266 from 1856
to 1869 (before the Valuation (Metropolis) Act, 1869, came into
operation); and since 1869 to the present time by £101,076,
or a total increase from 1856 (the year in which the Vestry was
first established) to the present time of no less a sum thau
£148,342, notwithstanding the very large amount of property
removed in the course of the formation of the new street,
called " Clerkenwell Road."
In addition to the above, three Provisional Valuation Lists
havebeenmade out and revised, comprising about 130 assessments.
Assessed Rates Act, 1889 (Operation of).— In