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 £27,713,409 2,194,838 £27,818,642 *1,696,340 † 5,484,670 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 || Repayments in respect of private improvement works Other receipts * 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. t 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, 6659,669 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. TABLE VI. RECEIPTS AND EXPENDITURE, 1868 AND 1890-91, IN ENGLAND AND WALES. (Condensed from Mr. Fowler's Report on Local Taxation, 1893.) 208,586 £8,977,504 209,365 £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 district boards, commissioners of police of the Metropolis, corporation of London, and commissioners of sewers of the City of London 6,179,594 6,008,648 7,592,797 7,961,676 6,309,108 7,292,322 13,264 13,264 13,850 13,850 Turnpike trustees, and county road boards, South Wales £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. TABLE VIII. RECEIPTS FROM PUBLIC RATES IN ENGLAND AND WALES. (Condensed from Mr. Fowler's Report on Local Taxation, 1893.) SUMMARY. When 1867-68. 1873-74. 1887-88. 1891-92. TABLE IX. SHOWING THE AMOUNTS VOTED IN RELIEF OF LOCAL TAXATION FROM NATIONAL REVENUES. (Compiled from Mr. Fowler's Report on Local Taxation, 1893.) Parliamentary Grants in Aid of Local Rates. 1846 £34,500 £36,098 £36,825 1846 104,500 125,602 149,506 1856 225,000 297,459 864,083 1833 164,848 229,990 575,141 1835 150,000 138,466 133,732 £4,300 County and borough prisons, and Removal of convicts Metropolitan fire brigade Berwick bridge Industrial schools (local authorities) 1846 109,000 95,870 10,000 10,000 10,000 10,000 1831 90 1876 3,574 329,285 Annual grants for day and evening scholars 1870 School boards in poor districts 1870 Medical officers of health and inspectors of nuisances 1873-74 76,734 208 14,727 1,255,938 7,167 1,508,427 8,395 73,910 Pauper lunatics 1874 485,169 Registration of births and deaths Disturnpiked and main roads Totals. * This amount includes estimated expenditure in respect of Scotland. |