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The Parish of Clerkenwell received from the
Common Poor Fund £4,061 17s. 9d. and
£3,798 16s, 9d. 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 £19,879 10s. lOd., divided into moieties of
£9,939 15s. 5d. in the first, and £9,939 15s. 5d. in
the second half-year. Under the Local Government
Act constituting the Council, it receives 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 formerly paid from
the Imperial Exchequer for Teachers in Poor Law
Schools, Public Vaccinators, Registrars of Births
and Deaths, Pauper Lunatics, Poor Law Medical
Officers, and the Metropolitan Police. The balance
of the Exchequer Contribution Account remaining
after payments 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, 1894, is £7,886, the amount