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The amounts required by the Guardians of the
Holborn Union were £32,200 in the first, and
£33,686 in the second half-year, total £65,886.
The Parish of Clerkenwell received from the
Common Poor Fund £5,100 7s. 8d. and
£2,410 19s. 5d. in the first and second half-years
respectively.
The amounts above stated as being required by
the Guardians of the Holborn Union included the
Precepts of the London County Council, whose
rate is now collected in the Poor Pate, 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 £23,703 2s. 6d., divided into portions of
£11,851 11s. 3d. in the first, and £11,851 11s. 3d. in
the second half-year. Under the Local Government
t Act constituting the Council, it receives from the
Commissioners of Inland Revenue the produce of
local taxation licenses, including licensc s 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 lor 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 alter 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