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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 later amount for
the year ending Lady-day, 1899, is £7,8S6, the
amount being based on the average number of indoor
paupers so maintained during the five financial
years ending on the 25th March, 1888.
The Police precepts for the year amounted to
£8,671 4s. 1d., collected as part of the Poor Rate.
The Library Rate precept at 1d. in the £
amounted to £1,690, and the cost of Registration
of Voters, Collection of the Poor Rate, and other
matters under the control of the Overseers and the
Guardians or Governors of the Poor amounted to
£1,430, which added to the sums above-mentioned,
made the Poor Rate precepts as sent by that Board
to the Vestry £73,601, to meet which the Poor
Rate of £72,020 was levied.
The precept of the School Board for the year
1899, amounted to the sum of £23,202 13s. 10d.,
which is collected as part of the General Rate.
It will thus be seen that of the £125,190 raised
during the year, the sum of £92,102 was required
by bodies beyond the control of the Vestry; or in
other words, of the total rates of 6s. 1d. in the