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6
SEWERS AND GENERAL RATES.

The total amount collected on the Vestry rates for the year
was £65,418 4s. 10d., an increase from the previous year of
£4,848 15s. 0d.
Of these sums collected by the Vestry large amounts are
paid to other authorities for purposes over which the Vestry has no
control. Thus, in addition to the £39,000 paid to the Guardians, out
which the County Rates and Metropolitan Asylum Board's
charges are paid, there is the sum of £10,641 15s. 9d. paid to the
Commissioners of Police, equal to an actual rate on the parish of
5d. in the £; also £210 9s. 9d. to the Returning Officer for
Borough Registration expenses.
From the Sewers rate is paid the Metropolitan Board's
Consolidated rate of £11,114 13s. 6d. From the General rate is
paid the School Board rate of £11,538 6s. 2d. All these charges
are based upon the rateable value of the property according to the
valuation list, and no reduction is made for empty houses or for the
allowance to owners. It will therefore be seen that where, from
local circumstances, a considerable portion of property is unoccupied
the burden of taxation falls unequally upon the remaining portion,
but possibly a remedy for this inequality is not to be easily
devised.