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REPORT OF THE ACCOUNTANT.
To the Vestry of St. Leonard, Shoreditch.
Gentlemen,
In submitting to the Vestry a brief report of the
Financial position of the Parish, with statements of the
Receipts and Expenditure of the Vestry, in respect to the
execution of the "Metropolis Local Management Act," during
the year ending on the Twenty-fifth day of March last, as
approved and certified by the several Official Auditors of the
Accounts; and on reference to the statements appended, it will
be seen that the sum collected during the year, as parochial
rates, amounted to £110,742 12s. 2d.
In the statement of the rates collected, the actual deficiency
from losses, empty houses, allowances to Owners under the
"Assessed Rates Acts," excusal by Magistrates, &c., &c., upon one
year's assessment was £7,312, being a gross deficiency of about
£6 12s. 10d., being near £6 per cent. less than that on rates
closed some few years since, which is attributed to the system
now adopted of a more speedy collection.