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amount being based, for the first five local financial
years, on the average number of indoor paupers so
maintained during the five financial years ending on
the 25th March, 1888.
The Library Commissioners precept at 1d. in the
£ amounted to £1,500, and the; cost of Registration
of Voters, Collection of the Poor Rate, and other
matters under the control of the Guardians or
Governors of the Poor amounted to £2,100, which,
added to the sums above-mentioned, made the Poor
Rate precepts as sent by that Board to the Vestry
£61,530, to meet which the Poor Rate of £00,545
was levied.
The Police precepts for the year amounted to
£7,717 13s. 8d., collected as part of the Poor Rate.
The precept of the School Board for the year
1891 amounted to the sum of £10,151 3s. 2d., which
is collected as part of the General Rate.
It will thus he seen that of the £101,070 raised
during the year, the sum of £75,516 was required
by bodies beyond the control of the Vestry; or in
other words, of the total rates of 5s. 7½d. in the
pound for the year, over 4s. 2d. was for other
bodies, and about 1s. 5d. for the local administration,
paving, lighting, dusting, slopping, &c.
An average of 1,356 summonses have been issued
for the recovery of the rates in each quarter of the
year. 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 fee of 1s. charged for
the summons and hearing, and to hold their money
as a matter of convenience, as long as possible.
That this is so is patent from the fact that only