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PARLIAMENTARY PUBLICATIONS . 



[March 1897. 



one county no rates for general county purposes, and in 16 

 counties no rates for special county purposes, were raised during 

 the year. 



The total receipts of the county councils, the council of the 

 Scilly Islands, and the joint committees for Lincolnshire, Suffolk, 

 Sussex, and Yorkshire during the } T ear, excluding loans, and 

 sums received for re-investment in respect of the Police Pension 

 Funds, amounted to 6,712,464Z. 



Comparing the receipts in 1894-5 with those in the preceding- 

 year, it is observed that the total receipts were larger by more 

 than 150,000£. ; but that this increase was almost wholly 

 attributable to the larger sum which was raised by means of 

 rates, as in many of the other items of receipt there was a 

 decrease. The total rates raised for general and special county 

 purposes in 1894-5 were 238 ; 618£. in excess of the amount raised 

 during the preceding year. There was a small increase in the 

 sums received from the local taxation account and in some minor 

 items ; but, on the other hand, there was a small decrease in 

 the sums received from the Treasury, and from fines, penalties, 

 and fees, and a very large decrease, amounting to no less than 

 117,923£. in the sums received from other local authorities. This 

 latter decrease would, probably, be altogether accounted for by 

 the smaller sums which were received by county councils in 

 respect of the capital payments under the awards of the Local 

 Government Act Commissioners. 



The expenditure of the councils during the year (excluding 

 that defrayed out of loans), namely, 6,720,471 was almost the 

 same iu amount as the receipts from sources other than loans. 

 There was a small falling off in the total expenditure in 1894-95 

 as compared with that of the preceding year, but there appear 

 to be no special alterations in particular items of expenditure to 

 which it is necessary to call attention. 



The expenditure of the county councils under the Contagious 

 Diseases (Animals) Act, 1894-5, was 23,388£., as compared with 

 29,958?.. in 1893-94. 



Rateable Value of Lands. — Statements showing the Decrease 

 or Increase in the Rateable Value of ''Lands" in 1894, as 

 compared with 1870, in the Poor Law Unions of England 

 and Wales; and the Decrease or Increase in the Gross 

 Annual Value of "Lands" under Schedule A. in each 

 County of England and Wales in 1894, as compared with 

 1879, with Diagram Maps. [C— 8300.] Price Is. 2d, 



This publication, which has been issued by the Royal Com- 

 mission on Agriculture, contains two diagram maps, of which 

 one illustrates the decrease or increase in the rateable value of 

 " lands " in the poor law unions of England and Wales in 1894 

 as compared with 1869-70 ; the other illustrates the variations in 

 the income-tax assessments of lands under Schedule A. between 

 1879-80, and 1894-95. 



