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while there is a decrease of £3,283 in the amount levied by precepts
from the Metropolitan Board of Works. These with payments on
account of Police Rate £12,540, County Rate £5,994, Collectors'
Poundage and Officers' Salaries, £3,265, and other disbursements not
here specially mentioned, make a total approaching £117,700.
In the statement of the Rates collected, the actual deficiency from
arrears, losses, &c., &c., upon one year's assessment was £17,084,
being a loss of about 13 per cent., deducting the amount collected from
the first charge of the assessment. It will be observed that £2,801 in
the loss column, is a reduction on appeal by the London and North
Western Railway Company.
Any further information may be obtained by a perusal of the
appended Tables, which upon the whole show a satisfactory account
of the finances of the Parish.
I remain, Gentlemen,
Your obedient Servant,
W. E. COLE,
Accountant to the Vestry.
Town Hall, Shoreditch,
June, 1872.