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VESTRY AND COMMITTEE MEETINGS.
The number of Meetings during the year have been:—
Vestry 31
Finance Committee 59
Assessment Committee 19
Assessors 24
Excuse Committee 4
General Purposes Committee 49
Public Health Committee 18
Sanitary Committee 31
Works Committee 52
„ Northern District Sub-Committee 23
,, South Eastern „ „ 24
„ „ Western „ „ 21
,, Horse and Depot Sub-Committee 55
Special Committees 24
Total 434
ACREAGE AND POPULATION.
The area of Islington is 3,107 statute acres.
The full details of the census taken on April 6th, 1891, are not
yet obtainable. The population was then shown to be 319,422, with
38,259 inhabited houses.
ASSESSMENT AND RATEABLE VALUE.
Since the issue of the report for 1890-1891 several Appeals then
pending have been heard and settled; but a complete report of the
result has not yet been received from the Assessment Committee.
As regards, however, the most important, that of the Gas Light
and Coke Company, it will be remembered that it was intimated in the
report of the Assessment Committee attached to the Annual Report
of last year that the Assessment Committees of several other parishes
which contained Works and Mains belonging to the Company and
which had received notice of appeal had agreed to unite with the
Assessment Committee of this Parish for the purpose of fighting
the case. The assessment of the Company in Islington had been fixed
at £60,000 Gross and £54,490 Rateable Value, these figures having
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