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For the halfyear to Ladyday, 1892.
A Poor Rate of 1s. 7d. including a Library Rate of 1d.
in the £, estimated to realize nett £26,980
A Lighting Rate 1d. „ „ „ 1,420
A General Rate 1s. 1d. „ „ „ 18,460
2s. 9d. £46,860
The rates made in April, for the halfyear to
Michaelmas, were based upon a rateable value of
£361,910, and those made in October, for the half
year to Ladyday, upon a rateable value of £362/271.
The amounts required by the Guardians of the
Holborn Union were £27,673 in the first, and
£24,724 in the second halfyear, total £52,397.
The Parish of Clerkenwell received from the
Common Poor Fund £5,061 15s. 7d. and £3,564
5s. 0d. in the first and second halfyears respectively.
The amounts above stated as being required by
the Guardians of the Holborn Union, include the
Precepts of the London County Council, whose
rate is now collected in the Poor Rate, whereas the
requirements of the Metropolitan Board of Works
were raised by a separate rate called the Metropolitan
Consolidated Rate. The Council's precepts
in respect of the Parish of Clerkenwell amounted
to £17,718 10s. 0d., divided into moieties of
£8,859 5s. 0d. in the first, and £8,859 5s. 0d. in
the second halfyear. Under the Local Government
Act constituting the Council, they receive from the
Commissioners of Inland Revenue the produce of
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 twofifths
of the probate duty paid within the County of London.
From these hitherto imperial funds the Council
pays certain public grants previously paid from