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persons who had entered into an arrangement for compounding in
respect of small properties in the several collecting districts, and 353
new agreements under section 3 of the said Act, representing 3,543
hereditaments, have since been entered into, the commission allowed
off the rates paid in respect thereof being, with a very few exceptional
cases, 15 per cent.
It is to be noted that the total of the hereditaments now under
compound is far in excess of the total of five years ago, when the
Commission Agreements represented but 1,936 hereditaments. This
increase is mainly due to the large number of blocks of artizans
dwellings which have since been erected in various parts of the parish-
Since the deposit of the Quinquennial List 308 new buildings
have been erected and assessed. These consist chiefly of houses on the
Highbury Gardens and Highbury Place estates, and at Whitehall Park,
Upper Holloway. The total result of this addition, together with the
increase in consequence of structural alterations, amounts to £14,817
gross, and £12,348 rateable value. These amounts added to the figures
shewn in the Quinquennial List as altered, gives the grand total of
£2,040,038 gross and £1,698,452 rateable as the total valuation of the
parish at Lady Day, 1891.
RATES.
The total rates for the year amounted to 5s. 0½d. in the £, being
4½d. more than those for 1889-90 and the highest levied in Islington since the passing
of the Metropolis Management Act in 1855.