Dec. 1895.] 



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In 24 schools payments were made to the pupils of industrial 

 classes for working on the small farms or gardens attached, 

 under the direction of the teachers assisted by Agricultural 

 Monitors. It is to be hoped that the number of these schools, 

 with classes duly organized, will be largely increased. 



The number of pupils who, on account of their regular 

 attendance at the farm work, and proficiency at the examinations, 

 received payments, was 286 ; and the number of agricultural 

 monitors who fulfilled the conditions prescribed in their case 

 was 48. 



The Annual Local Taxation Returns {England) for the Year 

 1893-94. Part I. [H.C.— 329.] Price lljd 



This volume consists of two divisions. The first contains the 

 Poor Rate Return for the year ended Lady Day, 1894, while the 

 second consists of a return relating to the valuation of property 

 for the poor rate in 1892 and 1893. 



Part I. of the Poor Rate Return gives a summary, as regards 

 each union-county and division, of the amount of the poor rates 

 levied during the year, and the amounts received by boards of 

 guardians from County and Borough Councils under the provi- 

 sions of the Local Government Act, 1888, and from other sources 

 (except from loans) in aid of such rates ; and also the amounts 

 expended therefrom : (1) for the relief of the poor and purposes 

 connected therewith, (2) for purposes unconnected with such 

 relief, and (3) for purposes partly connected and partly un- 

 connected with such relief. It also gives separately the amounts 

 received, expended, and outstanding in respect of loans raised by 

 boards of guardians. 



Part II. is a comparative statement of the expenditure on 

 relief to the poor in the years ended Lady Day 1893 and 1894. 



Part III. gives details of all the receipts and expenditure 

 shown in Part I., exclusive of loans, with regard to each of the 

 648 unions and parishes under separate boards of guardians in 

 England and Wales, and the Scilly Isles. 



Part IV. of the return is devoted to the loan transactions of 

 boards of guardians. It gives, as regards each board of guardians, 

 the amount raised by, means of loans, and the expenditure 

 defrayed out of loans, during the year, together with the amount 

 of the loans owing by 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 con- 

 tributed by Government in lieu of poor rates, was 17,743,664?. 

 This amount was greater than the amount raised during the 

 preceding year by 1, 21 2,25 8?. 



