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Accountant, and from the facts and figures supplied by the Companies, to
determine the gross and rateable values of such undertakings for
themselves.
The result of the alterations made in the Valuation List by the
Committee on the hearing of objections was that when the List was
finally approved by the Committee on the 29th October, 1890, the
total gross value originally shewn therein had been reduced from
£2,038,614 to £2,025,631, and the total rateable value from £1,693,199
to £1,686,385.
Result of
Objections.
Against the List as finally approved by the Committee there were
lodged but two notices of appeal to Special Sessions. They were in
respect of ordinary house property. One alone was persevered with,
upon which a slight reduction was obtained.
Appeals to
Special
Sessions.
Ten notices of appeal to the Court of Quarter Sessions (as it is now
called) were received, four being from Public Companies as before
mentioned, three from leading shopkeepers, one from the Holloway
Branch of the London and South-Western Bank, and two from ordinary
householders.
Appeals to
Quarter
Sessions.
The particulars of these appeals are as follows:—
The Gras Light and Coke Company, in respect of the Company's mains
and pipes throughout the parish. The figures entered in the list by the
Overseers, viz.:—£60,000 gross and £54,490 rateable value, showed an
increase of £7,611 in the gross and £9,490 in the rateable value upon the
existing assessment, and were based upon the Company's accounts for the
year 1889. On the 11th September, Mr. William Castle and Mr. Vigers
attended before the Committee and submitted fuller details on
behalf of the Company more particularly as regards the great increase
which had then commenced to take place in the cost of coal and in
wages, but as they claimed a reduction to £19,364 gross and £17,396
rateable, and there appeared no possibility of arriving at a satisfactory
compromise it was decided to confirm the figures of the Overseers.
The Company subsequently gave notice of appeal to the Court of
Assessment Sessions, and in due course supplied copies of their Case,
from which it appeared the reduction claimed was from £60,000 to
£19,364 in the gross, and from £54,490 to £17,396 in the rateable value,
a reduction, it may be remarked, equivalentto about £9,000 per annum.
The Committee learning that other parishes had also received
notice of the Company's intention to appeal, convened a conference of
the representatives of such parishes with a view to taking united action.
This took place, and representatives from Kensington, Hackney,
Marylebone, Chelsea, and Bethnal Green being present, it was agreed
Gas Light
and Coke
Company.