TRANSACTIONS OF THE SECTIONS. 



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was £161,734, and the borough-rate £4877 ; whilst in 1860, £346,601 and £10,583 

 were the respective amounts. An exceedingly interesting table was produced, 

 prepared by Mr. T. Lings, exhibiting the assessments, amoimt of poor-rate, and the 

 several ways in which the latter had been expended during the last forty years. 



Statement of the Average Weekly Expenditure in 1859-60, of a Family consisting 

 of Husband, Wife, and Three Children, whose Total Wages averaged 30s. per 

 Week : — as compared with the Cost of the same Articles in 1849-50 and 

 1839-40. 



This return showed that the annual value of property assessed to the poor-rate had 

 increased from £307,510 in 1820 to £597,921 in 1840, and to £789,203 in 1860, 

 —the increase in the value of property being, in the first twenty years (1820-40), 

 94-44 per cent. ; and in 1840-60, 31-99 per cent. The annual amount in the poimd 

 of the poor-rate on the annual value of the property during such 40 years had 



