90 RATES AND TAXES 



taxation raised for local purposes by local 

 authorities (including what was received 

 from tolls, dues, etc.) was over 11, 000,000, 

 and about a quarter of a million only was 

 afforded by Parliament. In percentages 

 in 1842-3, for ninety-eight per cent, raised 

 locally, only two per cent, was granted by 

 Parliament. If we take account of the 

 rates only, omitting the tolls, etc., the pro- 

 portion of Parliamentary aid to the amount 

 raised by the rates was still no more 

 than three per cent, to ninety - seven per 

 cent. By 1891-2, that is, in say fifty years, the 

 proportions had changed to seventy-nine per 

 cent., raised by rates to twenty-one per cent, 

 granted by Parliament. 



It is to be observed, however, that in spite 

 of the increase in the proportion of the Par- 

 liamentary subventions, in another table it is 

 shown that comparing the same two years 

 1841 and 1891 the rate per had increased in 



