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APPENDIX No. 5.
REPORT OF THE CHARTERED ACCOUNTANTS,
upon their examination of the vestry's accounts, for
the year ended lady-day, 1892.
3, Crosby-square,
London, E.C.
The Finance Committee, 28th June, 1892.
Vestry Offices,
Town Hall, Westminster, S. W.
Gentlemen,
Pursuant to the instructions of your Committee we
have examined the Books and Accounts of the United Vestry of
St. Margaret and St. John, Westminster, in relation to the
General, School Board, Sewers and Montpelier-square Rates, for
the year ended 25th March last, in accordance with the Specification.
We find the Summary Statements and Balance Sheet
prepared for the Elected Auditors to be duly vouched and true
Abstracts of the several Accounts from the books of the Vestry.
In connection with the examination of the Collectors'
Accounts, the present practice of detaching receipts from the
current receipt books on the issue of warrants is, in our opinion,
unsatisfactory and inconvenient for the purposes of Audit. We
would recommend that this practice should be discontinued, and
that instead each collector should be supplied with a separate
receipt book (printed, if thought desirable, in blank so as to be
available from one year to another) solely for the issue of warrant
receipts.
We are, Gentlemen,
Your obedient Servants,
(Signed) EDWARD MOORE & SONS.