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For the Half-year to Lady-day, 1898.
A Poor Rate of 1s. 6d. including a Library Rate of 1d.
in the £, estimated to realize nett £25,740
A Lighting Rate 1d. „ „ „ 1,430
A General Rate 1s. 3d. „ „ „ 21,540
2s. 10d. £48,710
The rates made in April, for the half-year to
Michaelmas, were based upon a rateable value of
£365,373, and those made in October, for the halfyear
to Lady-day, upon a rateable value of £366,140.
The amounts required by the Guardians of the
Holborn Union were £29,996 in the first, and
£25,441 in the second half-year, total £55,437.
The Parish of Clerkenwell received from the
Common Poor Fund £3,972 1s. 9d. and
£4,569 10s. 1d. 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 £18,854 15s. 8d., divided into moieties of
£9,427 7s. 10d. in the first, and £9,427 7s. 10d. in
the second half-year. 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
two-fifths of the probate duty paid within the County
of London. From these hitherto imperial funds the
Council pays certain public grants hitherto paid from