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equal to 4d. per head, per day, for every indoor
pauper maintained in that Union, The share of
the Parish of Olerkenwell of the latter amount for
the year ending Lady-day, 1895, is .£7,880, the
amount being based on the average number of indoor
paupers so maintained during the live financial
years ending on the 25th March, 1888.
The Police precepts for the year amounted to
.£7901 0s. l0d., collected as part of the Poor Rate.
The Library Commissioners precept at 1d. in tho
amounted to .£1,510, 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 £010, which,
added to the sums above-mentioned, and a deficiency
in the previous rate, made the Poor Rate precepts
as sent by that Board to the Vestry £70,900, to
meet which the Poor Rate of .£60,590 was levied.
The precept of the School Board for the year
1895 amounted to the sum of £18,051 l8s. 7d., which
is collected as part of the General Rate.
It will thus bo soon that of the .£111,940 raised
during the year, the sum of j£84,328 was required
by bodies beyond the control of the Vestry; or in
other words, of the total rates of 6s. 2d. in the
pound for the year, 4s. 7¾d. was for other
bodies, and 1s. 6¼. for the local administration
paving, lighting, dusting, slopping, &c.
An average of 1250 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,