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headed "Hire of Town Hall," the amount realised by letting the same
during the year 1872-3 was £1,039 10s. 0d., a sum in excess by
£341 5s. 0d. of that received during the year 1871-2. The other
minor items are specified in the several respective columns, as they appear
in the tabular statements appended to this report. It may be further
stated that one penny in the pound on the assessment of property in
the parish produced, last year, £1650 19s. 6d., and that the amount of
losses caused by removals, empties, and allowances to owners under the
Assessed Rates Act, with other sums allowed by the magistrates on
account of poverty, was only £10 11s. 6d. per cent, upon the gross
collection, which affords ample ground for congratulating the Vestry on
the satisfactory condition of the parochial exchequer.
I am, Gentlemen,
Your obedient Servant,
W. E. COLE,
Accountant to the Vestry.
Town Hall, Old Street,
June, 1873.