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ASSESSMENTS.
The Provisional and Supplemental Valuation lists for the year have
been duly prepared, and the totals for the present year are fixed at
£561,817 10s. gross value, and £448,272 rateable value. The totals for
the Metropolitan District are, gross value £25,226,885, and the rateable
value £20,731,709, subject to appeals pending. It is upon the total
rateable value that the Police, County, Metropolitan Board's, School
Board's, and other charges are levied.
METROPOLITAN IMPROVEMENTS.
The following paragraph appeared in the last Report:—
"The Act of Parliament which the Metropolitan Board obtained
last Session for the widening of the High Street, and the making of a
new street, from Old Street to Shoreditch, &c., has been put into
operation; the works have not actually commenced, but the Metropolitan
Board is actively engaged in settling the claims for compensation
involved, and the actual works may be expected to commence in a
short time."
The above is equally true for this year, no works having actually
commenced.
TRAMWAYS.
The North ???Tramway Company has now completed the
whole of the works authorised within this Parish. The amount paid by
them in respect to pavements taken is £7309, and there is a balance of
about £500 to be paid when the exact measurements have been decided.
No Bill was promoted by the Company last Session affecting this Parish
except that in an Extension of Time Bill, a proposal was made to
authorise the use of steam propelling power, but that was not proceeded
with.
RAILWAYS.
The only Railway Bill affecting the Parish was one promoted by
North London Railway Company to authorise the appropriation of the
roadway under the Sun Street Bridge, which would, as proposed, have
involved the stopping up of the thoroughfare from Sun Street to
Liverpool Street, between the two stations.