z64 WESTMORLAND AGRICULTURE, 1800— 1900 



The annual value of real property rated to the Poor Rates for 

 the year ending Lady Day, 1847, was £260,816, and for the same 

 period the expenditure for the relief and maintenance of the poor 

 was £15,484, and the rate in the pound on the annual value is. 2jd. — 

 the proportion per cent, of the total number of paupers relieved (in- 

 clusive of vagrants) on the estimated population in 1847 was 8.2, 

 and the rate per head of expenditure for relief of the poor on the 

 estimated population in the same year was 5s. 4fd. The annual 

 value of real property assessed to the Property and Income Tax in 

 1843 was £334,502, and the proportion per cent, of Poor Rate assess- 

 ment to Income Tax assessment of real property was 78.0. 



Under the Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834 the county was 

 divided into three Unions— East Ward Union, West Ward Union, 

 and Kendal Union — and the following table shows the amount of 

 money expended for the rehef and maintenance of the poor from the 

 last parochial year prior to the passing of the Act to 1847 : — 



