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amount certified by the Local Government Board as the 

 share of the annual grant under that Act payable to such 

 authority. 



The amounts certified as payable to various bodies are 

 summarised as follows.: — County Councils, ;£329,i99 is. 8d. ; 

 Councils of Boroughs, ;^i8,i2i 3s. 4d. ; Councils of Urban 

 Districts other than Boroughs, £5,366 5s. 8d. ; Councils of 

 Rural Districts, 27,091 3s. rod. ; Boards of Guardians, 

 j£5o6,o59 7s. ; receiver for the Metropolitan Police District,, 

 ;£4,389 14s. 8d. ; School Boards, ;^I07,347 3s. 8d ; Highway 

 Boards, £i6,^6S 7s.; Surveyors of Highways, ;£i8,570 5s.; 

 total for England and Wales, ;£i,332,5i2 us. lod. 



Local Taxation Rehwns [Scotland). The Annual Local 

 Taxation Returns for the Year 1894-5. [H.C. — 343.] 

 Price 2S. ^d. 



This volume is the fifteenth annual return under the Local 

 Taxation Returns (Scotland) Act, 1881, and contains abstracts 

 of the receipts and expenditure of the various local authori- 

 ties of Scotland for the year 1894-5. 



In a memorandum and summary of the returns it is stated 

 that the revenue, excluding loans, of the various local authorities 

 amounted to ;£8,95 2,071 in 1894-95, duplicate entries in transac- 

 tions between local bodies being deducted. Of this sum 

 ;^3,75 8,480 was derived from assessment, ^^961, 976 from tolls^ 

 dues, fees, andfines,£i,55 1,42 1 from Imperial subventions and 

 payments, and £2,680,194 from miscellaneous sources. The 

 total expenditure of the various local authorities not defrayed 

 out of loans in 1894-95 was £9,174,843 ; and the expenditure 

 met out of borrowed money amounted to £2,317,627. 



The amount of debt of local authorities in Scotland out- 

 standing* at the close of the financial year 1894-95 was 

 2,746,589, and the amount for 1893-94, taken from the 

 returns for that year, with certain adjustments based upon 

 more recent information, was £31,810,094. 



In 1893-94 the total loans of local authorities amounted ta 

 £^ 14s. 8fl. per head cf the estimated population of Scotland; 

 in 1894-95 they rose to £7 i8s. 2d. per head. 



