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the Appeal was commenced and which were more favourable to the Company, but
the Court in allowing this ordered them to pay the costs of this Parish of the first
case and the first day's hearing. and this will be a slight set off against the heavy
costs of the rest of the case, which will be paid by the Parish.
The costs of the shouthand writer's notes, which are heavy, will be equally
divided between the Appellants and all the Respondents, and the half falling on
the latter will be apportioned according to the relative Rateable values of the
respective parishes.
Since the hearing of the case the Company have increassd their price of gas by
fourpence per 1000 cubic feet, and the consequence of this is that the Assessments
arrived at by the Court are proportionately inadequate. The question now arises
whether the Company should not be included in a supplemental list for the increased
value of their property consequent on the increased price of gas.
The Company have secured substantial advantages by this Appeal, as in the
case of several parishes where the working out of the figures of the Judgment of
the Court proved that they were underassessed, the Court has been unable to increase
their assessments, and of course where the Judgment of the Court shewed they
were overassessed they have got the benefit of the reductions. The fact, however,
that the figures for this Parish finally settled by the Court are much nearer the
figures of the Committee's Valuation than those demanded by the Company, fully
justifies the action of the Committee in contesting the matter.
I am, Gentlemen,
Your obedient Servant,
H. MANSFIELD ROBINSON,
Clerk to the Assessment Committee.
Shorkditch Town Hall,
Old Street E.G.,
August, 1892,