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The Rates made in March, for the half-year to
Michaelmas, were based upon a rateable value of
£433,136, and those made in October, for the halfyear
to Lady-day, upon a rateable value of
£436,268.
The amounts required by the Guardians of the
Holborn Union were £36,738 in the first, and
£31,986 in the second half-year, total £68,724.
The Parish of Clerkenwell received from the
Common Poor Fund £3,420 2s. l0d. and
£3,441 12s. 4d. 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 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 £23,741 4s. 2d., divided into portions of
£11,870 12s. 1d. in the first, and £11,870 12s. 1d. 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