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The Parish of Clerkenwell received from the
Common Poor Fund £5,018 1s. l1d. and
£2,883 3s. 8d. in the first and second half-years
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 £21,810 5s. l1d., divided into portions of
£11,099 17s, 8d. in the first, and £10,710 8s 3d. 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 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, 1895, is £7,886, the