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The rates made in April, for the half-year to Michaelmas,
were based upon a rateable value of £334,849, and those
for the half-year to Lady-day, upon a rateable value of
£335,610.
The amounts required by the Guardians of the Holborn
Union were £27,874 in the first, and £23,947 in the
second half-year, towards which the Parish of Clerkenwell
received from the Common Poor Fund £3,933 0s. 10d. and
£6,141 7s. 6d. in the first and second half-years respectively.
The precept of the Metropolitan Board of Works for
the year was for the sum of £8,663 9s. 2d. and that of the
School Board of £9,397 16s. 2d.
The Police precepts for the year amounted to
£7,002 19s. 10d.
It will thus be seen that of the £87,100 raised during
the year, the sum of £66,809 was required by bodies
beyond the control of the Vestry.
Valuation Lists.—A Supplemental, and two Provisional
Valuation Lists have been made out and deposited during
the year, affecting some 110 assessments, and producing a
net increase in the rateable value of about £3,469.
Gates and Bars across thoroughfares.—This matter
was again brought under the notice of the Vestry by the
Vestry of St. Pancras, (in which Parish there is a very
large number of streets obstructed by gates and bars,) who
passed a resolution calling the attention of the Home
Secretary to the matter, and requesting him to insert, in
any Bill he may introduce relating to the government of
the Metropolis, a clause for the abolition of such gates and
bars, or to deal with the matter in any other way he may
deem fit. This Vestry adopted the same course, and later
on, on the 20th March, appointed three delegates to a
Conference at the St. Pancras Vestry Hall to consider
the matter.