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Act constituting the Council, they receive from the
Commissioners of Inland Revenue local taxation
licenses, including licenses for the sale of intoxicating
liquors, for game, dogs, guns, auctioneers,
tobacco, carriages, hawkers, pawnbrokers, armorial
bearings, &c., &c , together with two-fifths of the
probate duty paid within the County of London
From these, till now imperial funds, the Council
pays certain public grants hitherto paid from the
Imperial Exchequer for Teachers in Poor Law
Schools, Public Vaccinators, Registrars of Births
and Deaths, Paupers, Lunatics, Poor Law Medical
Officers, and the Metropolitan Police. The balance
of the Exchequer Contribution Account remaining
after payment of these grants is carried to the
General County Account, and from this Account
the Council have to pay to the Guardians of every
Poor Law Union wholly in London a sum equal to
4d. per head per day for every indoor pauper
maintained in that Union. The share of the
Parish of Clerkenwell of the latter amount for the
year ending Lady-day, 1890, is £8,653.
The precept of the School Board for the year
1889, was for the sum of £13,252 6s. Od.
The Police precepts for the year amounted to
£7,475 10s. 10d.
It will thus be seen that of the £91,742 raised
during the year, the sum of £65,425 was required
by bodies beyond the control of the Vestry.
5,575 Summonses have been issued for the recovery
of the rates for the four quarters of the year,
representing an average of 1,394 per quarter, a
reduction of 15 per quarter. This appears a large
number, but it is quite evident that a very large
proportion of the persons summoned are content to
wait for the summons, treating it as the "final
demand " for payment, preferring to pay the small