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The amounts required by the Guardians of the Holborn
Union were £25,121 in the first, and £24,282 in the
second half-year, towards which the Parish of Clerkenwell
received from the Common Poor Fund £4,633 11s and
£5,600 16s. in the first and second half-years respectively.
The precept of the Metropolitan Board of Works for
the year was for the sum of £9,090 6s. 0d. and that of the
School Board of £11,054 2s. 2d.
The Police precepts for the year amounted to
£6,940 19s. 2d.
It will thus be seen that of the £87,270 raised during
the year, the sum of £66,254 was required by bodies
beyond the control of the Vestry.
Valuation Lists.—A Supplemental, and three Provisional
Valuation Lists, have been made out and deposited during
the year, affecting some 568 assessments, and producing a
net increase in the rateable value of about £6,000.
Proceeding first to note the questions dealt with in the
last Report in an incomplete manner, the Vestry now beg
to submit the following observations:—
Gates and bars across thoroughfares.—At the close of
the preceding year the Vestry had just appointed three
delegates to a Conference at the St. Pancras Vestry Hall
to consider this subject. The delegates of the various
local authorities arrived at a resolution urging the Metropolitan
Board of Works to introduce a Bill into Parliament,
at the earliest possible moment, for the abolition of such
gates and bars, and noted with satisfaction a statement of
the Home Secretary that he sympathized with the object of
the Conference, and would give every facility for the consideration
of any Bill dealing with the subject. The