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REPORT 1865. 



understood arrangement, the receipts of the improvement account only are fur- 

 nished, that being the chief and most legitimate source of income ; but the pay- 

 ments on account of the debt comprehend the whole of the charges thereon ; that 

 is to say, those of the municipal and street improvement accounts are also included, 

 and the same principle is observed throughout the calculation : — 



Table G. 



As a collateral branch of this subject, it may not be inappropriate to furnish a 

 Table of the amounts levied by the overseers of the poor, and also of the propor- 

 tion of them absorbed by the borough rate for municipal purposes, and which is 

 entirely under the control of the. Corporation. It is much to be desired that this 

 singular anomaly should be speedily abolished, that the Corporation should be au- 

 thorized to collect the whole of its own rates, and that the entire system of muni- 

 cipal taxation should be simplified and consolidated. 



Table H. 



