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Report Of The Accountant.
To the Vestry of St. Leonard Shoreditch
Gentlemen,
I beg herewith to submit for the information of the
Vestry the annexed statement of receipts and disbursements for the year
ending on the 25th March, 1875, and, on reference thereto, it will be
seen that the amount raised during the year by Poor and Vestry rates
alone amounted to the sum of £112,927 0s. 2d.; there being a balance
in the hands of the Treasurer of receipts over expenditure on the Poor
rate of £7,905 19s. 0d., and on the Vestry rates of 8,429 3s. 9d. to bo
carried forward to the account of the next financial year.
In the statement of the rates collected, the actual deficiency from
arrears, losses, &c., upon one year's assessment was £8,784 5s. 7d.,
being a loss of about £7 15s. 3d. per cent., which is arrived at by
deducting the amount collected from the first charge of the assessment.
It may be further stated that a rate of one penny in the pound
on the amount, to Lady-day, 1875, now finally closed, produced
£1,(24 8s. l1d, which is doubtless attributable to the system, now being
carried out, of a more speedy mode of collection,—hence the marked
reduction of losses, and which is clearly proved to be beneficial to the
resident ratepayers of the Parish, the ultimate intention being to have
the rate collected during the quarter for which it is made, and ratepavers