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REPORT OF THE ACCOUNT.
To the Vestry of St. Leonard, Shoreditch.
Gentlemen,
I beg here with to submit for the information of the
Vestry the annexed tabular statements, classified under distinct
headings, shewing the gross receipt from all sources to the Vestry
exchequer; likewise the disbursements under their orders during
the financial year of the business of the Vestry, ending the
25th day of March last. On reference to the tables, it will be
seen that the amount raised in one year by Poor and Vestry
Rates alone was £101,370 13s. 5d., being a decrease in the
amount levied of £10,556 6s. 9d. as compared with the last
published statement.
It is further shewn, under column heading "Hire of Town
Hall," that the amount received from persons during the year
1875-6 was £1003 5s. 6d., a sum less by £71 8s. than was
realized during 1874-5.
The other general items of the expenditure are specified
in the several respective columns of Tables appended to this
report. The amount each rate, of one penny in the pound on
the assessment of property in the Parish, produced £1771 12s. 10d.,
that is, calculated upon the last rate-book finally balanced, being
Lady-day, 1876. In the statement of the rates collected, the