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Poor Rate (including expenses of London County
Council, Police, Metropolitan Asylums
Board, Public Baths and Wash-houses, and
Burial Board £80,898
General Rate (for local purposes) 28,896
General Rate (for London School Board) 23,582
Consolidated Rate (Metropolitan Board of Works,
for one quarter of the year) 6,112
Sewers Rate (for local purposes) 1,208
Free Public Library 1,530
£151,226
In the discharge of the reference remitted to
them some months previously, the Committee
reported to the Vestry in April the result of
their consideration of the scheme for the improvement
of these two establishments, and of their conference
with the Commissioners thereon. The report and recommendations
of the Committee were accepted by the Vestry.
This report, with the proceedings of the Vestry thereon,
are given as an appendix (No. 17).
The Committee felt called upon to make
several representations upon the subject of the
increasing demands of the School Board for London, as well
as upon the inconvenient times prescribed by that Board
for the payment of the instalments under their precepts,
representations which were in every case approved by the
Vestry, and which are noticed hereafter under the head of
" School Board for London," at page 58.
Miscellaneous addition to the foregoing, and to the super-
matters. intendence of the operations of the rate collectors,
considerable demand has been made upon the time of the
Committee by the periodical examination and checking of
the accounts, vouchers, and financial statements, the drawing
of cheques, the regulation of the loan and deposit
Free Public
Library and
Public Baths
and
Wasli-houses.
School Hoard
Precepts.