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APPENDIX No. 6.
REPORT OF THE ELECTED AUDITORS,
upon tiieir examination of the vestry's accounts, for
the year ended at lady-day, 1893.
To the United Vestry of St. Margaret and St. John,
Westminster.
Gentlemen,
After causing notices to be published throughout the
parish, in order to enable any ratepayers interested in the
matter to attend, we met on the 12th May to commence the
audit of the General Rate Accounts of the Vestry. We then
conferred with the Chartered Accountants (Messrs. E. Moore
& Sons) engaged by the Vestry, and handed over the books
and accounts for the detailed examination on the lines which
have been adopted during the past eight years.
We have since had an opportunity of seeing the Accountants'
report upon this examination, and have had before us all
the accounts, vouchers, registers and deeds necessary for us to
check the statements in every particular. We have not, however,
thought it worth while, for reasons which some of us
have fully explained in past years, to review the detail work of
the experts, but have directed our efforts more particularly
to seeing that the payments have been properly authorised
and vouched, and that the deeds correspond with the entries
in the registers. In this connection we have enquired into the
uncompleted transaction referred to in the Accountants' report,
and find that it was satisfactorily completed shortly after
Lady-day.
We find by adding the figures relating to the Poor Rate,
that the total amount received by the parish during the year
(including £33,200 loans from the London County Council, and