Sept. 1894.] 



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amount raised by means of loans, and the expenditure defrayed 

 out of loans, during the year, together with the amounts of the 

 loans owing by the guardians at the end of the year. 



It appears from the return that the total amount of poor rates 

 raised during the year for all purposes, including the sums 

 contributed by Government in lieu of poor rates, was 16,531,406^. 

 This amount was greater than the amount raised during the 

 preceding year by 889,386^. 



A statement is also given which has been prepared with the 

 view of showing what was the rate per head on the estimated 

 population of the metropolis, and of each union-county of the 

 receipts from poor rates, and of the gross expenditure on relief 

 to the poor, and the rate in the £ on rateable value of the 

 receipts from poor rates. The onion -counties have been arranged 

 according to the amount of the rate per head on estimated 

 population which the gross expenditure on relief represented. 



It shows that the relative rates per head on the total receipts 

 from poor rates, and on the gross expenditure for relief, varied 

 greatly in different union-counties, and that in some cases the 

 rate per head for relief was considerably less than half the rate 

 per head of the rates raised, whilst in Bucks, Berks, Westmor- 

 land, and Nottingham, the rate per head of relief represented 

 about three-fourths of the rate per head of the rates raised. 

 The highest rate per head of the poor rates raised was in London, 

 where it amounted to 21s. 3 J c^. per head; the lowest was in 

 Nottingham, where it amounted to only 5s. ll^d, per head. 



The highest rate per head for expenditure on poor relief was 

 12s. 9^d. in London, and the lowest 3-s. lOd. in the West Riding 

 of Yorkshire. The rate in the £ on rateable value of the poor 

 rates raised also varied considerably in the different union- 

 counties. In the metropolis and 17 other union-counties it was 

 2s., or more than 2s. in the £, whilst in Westmorland it was 

 only 9d. in the £. It is also observed that there were consider- 

 able differences in the several union- counties between the pro- 

 portions which the rate per head on the estimated population 

 bore to the rate in the £ on the rateable value of the amounts 

 raised from poor rates. 



Second Report from the Select Committee of the House of Lords 

 on Marking of Foreign and Colonial Produce, [H.C. 298.] 

 Price lid. 



This publication is the second report by the Select Committee 

 appointed to consider and report whether legislation for the 

 purpose of requiring the foreign or colonial origin of imported 

 agricultural and horticultural produce, and especially meat, 

 cheese, and fruit, to be marked thereon, or otherwise indicated, 

 is necessary, expedient, and feasible : and, if so, what are the 

 provisiQns which such legislation should comprise. 



