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from time to time given on Deposits, on the
minimum monthly Vestry account balances, on
sums above £1,000, which terms the Vestry
accepted.
Coal Plate Fees.—The Vestry have had before
them the question of the inadequacy of the charge
of 1s. for cutting a stone to receive a coal plate,
and 6d. for lowering a plate. They found that the
total sum received is insignificant, being in 1887
only £2 7s. 0d., and they therefore abolished the
charge.
Valuation Lists.—Five Provisional Valuation
Lists and one Supplemental List have been made
out during the year, dealing with 472 assessments
and resulting in a decrease in the rateable value
of £64.
With regard to one of the Assessments comprised
in such Provisional and Supplemental lists the Vestry
have felt it to be necessary to appeal from the
decision of the Holborn Union Assessment Committee.
In the case of the stables built by Messrs.
Lovell and Christmas in St. John Street, the Yestry,
acting as Overseers, assessed same on the basis of
£10 per stall, which assessment the Union Assessment
Committee reduced to an assessment based
on a value of £7 per stall. The Vestry in consequence
appealed to the Special Sessions against
such reduction, and the Special Sessions restored
the original assessment. Messrs. Lovell & Christmas
then appealed to the Assessment Sessions, which
allowed the appeal, and reduced the assessment to
the figures based on the £7 per stall value.
Parcels Post Offices.—The Vestry Clerk, in
December, 18S7, wrote to the Treasury asking
whether they were prepared to renew the contribution
to the rates in respect of the Parcel Post
Offices erected on the Coldbath Fields Prison Site,