TABLE II. GENERAL VIEW OF CERTAIN BRANCHES OF LOCAL TAXATION FROM 1747 TO 1890. (Compiled chiefly from the reports of the Poor Law Board and Local Government Board.) NET COST OF POOR RELIEF. £ PAID TO BOROUGH, £ OTHER PAYMENTS £ HIGHWAY RATES CHURCH RATES POPULATION. LEVIED. LEVIED. £ £ Inclusive of estimated value of statute labor, £535,000. (See note 1, page 85.) ↑ Including rents of estates. See Lord Monteagle's Draft Report on Burdens on Land, 1846, p. 26, in which the gross amounts for 1831 and 1838-39 are given as £446,247 and 263, 103, respectively. The figures in this column for 1839, 1850 and 1860 are taken from Mr. Goschen's Report on Local Taxation, 1870, p. 71. See Table 1. The highway rates in the above table are, in the later years, exclusive of urban areas, for which no separate highway rates are levied. For total highway and street expenditure see Table VII. TABLE III. Being a copy of that given by the Poor Law Commissioners in their report of 1843 on local taxation, and showing the nature and amounts of the local taxes at that date, so far as they could be ascertained, exclusive of poor rates, county rates, highway rates and church rates, for which see Table II. The revenue of the municipal corporations, remodeled under the 5 and 6 Wm. IV., c. 76, consisting of Rates and other receipts in 1840-41, was City of London revenue for 1841 Turnpike trusts, expenditure in 1840 *£989,740 188,521 1,659,154 162,717 57,668 unknown £3,057,800 TABLE IV. Being a copy of House of Commons Return, No. 430, year 1870, showing the direct local taxation levied in England and Wales in the year ended March 25, 1868. 9. Rates under courts or commissioners of sewers (including * So far as this consists of rates it is embraced in column 3, Table II. 376,650 £16,783,220 TABLE V. RECEIPTS (EXCLUSIVE OF LOANS) IN ENGLAND AND WALES. (From Local Taxation Returns, 1890-91.) 3,554,860 3,545,142 3,718,381 3,642,423 Receipts from real and funded property (excluding sales) 1,246,001 1,281,433 1,400,148 1,379,823 548,181 390,394 578,746 513,001 Fees, fines, penalties and licenses § 1,076,103 1,105,439 1,170,984 1,173,348 Revenue from water works 2,171,558 2,267,932 2,400,407 2,515,217 † 5,484,670 3,473,876 1,438,113 303,104 1,250,464 2,608,928 Revenue from gas works 3,355,383 3,495,436 3,677,929 3,867,416 4,227,021 Revenue from markets, cemeteries and burial grounds, sewage farms and works, baths, washhouses and open bathing-places, libraries and museums, fire brigades, lunatic asylums, hospitals, tramways, slaughter-houses, and harbors, piers or docks || *Including grants in aid of the cost of elementary and industrial schools, and the London fire brigade; and other payments out of imperial funds for police, the conveyance and maintenance of prisoners, etc.; also including in the year 1889-90 balances of grants discontinued under the provisions of the Local Government Act, 1888, and of the temporary grants provided for by that act. + Including £3,742,615 in 1889-90, and £4,743,989 in 1890-91 received by the councils of counties and county boroughs, and £584,826 in 1889-90, and £740,681 in § Including £589,404 in 1886-87, 616,933 in 1887-88, £648,502 in 1888-89, £659,669 in 1889-90, and £684,427 in 1890-91 from school fees, and sale of books, etc., to children. Excluding receipts entered under the heads of rates, tolls, dues, etc. I12 12 POLITICAL SCIENCE QUARTERLY. [VOL. IX. TABLE VI. RECEIPTS AND EXPENDITURE, 1868 AND 1890-91, IN ENGLAND AND WALES. (Condens. ! from Mr. Fowler's Report on Local Taxation, 1893.) £9,069,754 £8,977,504 £7,975,102 £8,340,233 449,256 538,519 £9,893,941 428,840 £10,233,044 513,844 London county council, Metropolitan vestries and 6,179,594 6,008,648 7,592,797 7,961,676 6,309,108 7,292,322 port sanitary authorities and joint boards (exc. Metropolis) } 6,779,500 7,016,983 19,697,897 23,503,597 19,358,279 23,656,212 Highway authorities. 1,484,169 1,476,183 1,353,276 1,355,476 1,326,196 1,329,801 Harbor, pier and dock authorities 1,945,805 2,071,796 2,768,664 3,109,327 2,659,321 3,000,867 County authorities (exc. Metropolis) 2,292,948 2,319,348 5,146,821 5,256,281 3,967,547 4,054,666 Commissioners of sewers and drainage, embankment and conservancy boards. 245,357 205,266 547,517 593,657 544,520 Salmon fishery conservancy boards, and sea fishery committees 554,399 13,264 13,264 13,850 13,850 Turnpike trustees, and county road boards, South 1,023,563 1,059,073 3,052 3,052 4,138 4,138 Rural Sanitary authorities. 491,526 656,095 510,661 680,426 280,903 278,512 165,389 254,789 156,261 225,373 Totals £29,811,919 £29,928,203 £51,437,425 £57,659,414 £50,662,678 £57,857,077 TABLE VII. CLASSIFICATION OF EXPENDITURE NOT DEFRAYED OUT OF LOANS. (From Local Taxation Returns, 1890-91.) Under this heading are included the payments on account of the principal and interest of the loans raised for all the specific purposes mentioned in the table. + Only a portion of the salaries of the officers, establishment charges, and legal and Parliamentary expenses of the local authorities is included under these headings. In many cases the expenditure of the local authority for these purposes in connection with some particular undertaking or purpose is included in the expenditure on that undertaking or purpose. |