636 



REPORT — 1882. 



Analysis of Exiienditure in Poor Lmc Unions in the County of Southampton 

 in the year endiny Lady Day 1880. 



£ 



205,529 



3« 



2^ 



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£ 



60,887 





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2 c c 

 CSS 



£ I 

 26,3001 



£ 



4,153 



£ £ 

 17,176; 1,393 



£ 

 2,053 



£ 

 1,956 



£ 



1,576 



&8 



£ 



889 



£ £ 



15,433 10,430 



3 



X 



H 



£ 



335,347 



Particulars of Expenditure out of the County Rate hy the Court of Quarter Sessions 

 for the County of Southampton in the year ending March 31, 1881. 



Note. — Other large items of expenditure are met, in whole or in part, by fees 

 received, and by repayment from the Government. 



I have endeavoured in this address to state shortly, and as far as possible 

 abstractedly, the conditions of an interesting problem in Political Science, without 

 entering into speculative proposals for its solution, which belong rather to the pro- 

 vince of debatable politics unsuitable for this occasion. I may, however, remark 

 that the County Boards Bill, introduced by me on the part of the late Government, 

 was designed on the lines above indicated, and that great care was taken in framing 

 it to provide functions for the new authority sufficient to justify its existence, but 

 not unduly intrusive on the functions of the unions and other local bodies. I may 

 also point to the numerous measures of local government improvement which were 

 passed into law by the late Parliament, as illustrating my own readiness to initiate 

 weU-considered changes and reforms. AVhat I earnestly desire is that further 

 legislation dealing with various branches of the subject (the need for which can 

 hardly be exaggerated) shall be prepared and carried out in a similar, that is, in a 

 sympathetic and not in an iconoclastic spirit. 



The following Papers were read : — 



1. On the Revenue from the Taxation of Alcohol. By George Baden 

 Powell, M.A., F.B.A.S., F.S.S. 



At the present moment the question of raising revenue from the taxation of 

 alcohol is of peculiar interest, not only as affecting general principles but also their 

 practical application. 



