The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-02-26 00:00:00

STOURBRIDOR UNION.—TRE RATING OF COAL
MINES FOR 1870.
lb the Editor of the" Observer."

SIR—We are told the whole of the coal mines in king-
swinford parish were rated on about £4,000 per year, and
it is now raised to about £lB,OOO • year, through the ex-
ertions of Mr. Plant and his friends, which will effect •
clear saving of about .£2,500 a year to the Ur ion 4 but
since I have begun to think about the coal mines I con-
clude the £lB,OOO • year cannot be right, nor half right.
I have been asking about it, and am told that when the
assessor obtained the returns he assessed the mines on
one sixth part of the produce, and that came to between
1:30,000 and .£40,000, and the coalmasters said they
would not be rated so high as that, and have since put
their rate on one-twelfth part of their rent or rentable
value, and taken fifteen per. cent of that, and our Assess-
ment Committee have agreed to it. Now, ratepayers,
mark what I Bay. I believe the law is clear, that the
coal mines should he rated on the rent pay, like all other
property; or if not let, and worked by the owner, the
rent they would let at from year to year, when the pita
are all at work, the coal being raised L. C. lam told a
gentleman who has pits between Penanett and Kingewin-
ford has just offered one-third off all the sales for some
coal near his pits, and has been refused because it is not
enough. This being the case, is it fair to ask to rate the
mines ou one-twelfth part of the Bales, when it is clear
they are worth one-third, in other words, is it fair for
coal masters to pay £lOO in poor rates where they ought
to pay £100? If this is to be continued we must have
our rates reduced to the same standard; where we pay
4s, we must pay one. Let this be done throughout the
Union, and spend no more time in contention on the
subject. Bat this they say cannot be done. I hear some
people asking what the Guardians and Assessment Com-
mittee have been doing? Why have they allowed this
thing to go on ?—and no one is found able to give an
answer. Why, why, have they allowed the coalmasters
to assess themselves on one-twelfth part of their rent,
and after that makes further deduction of 15 per cent
No one known, and Assessment Committee has not in-
formed the ratepayers, why they have allowed this wrong
thing to be done. Who are the Guardians? Who arc
the gentlemen on the Assessment Committee ? If these
gentlemen have done a wrong knowing it to be so at the
time they did it, there must be a way to bring them to
give an account of their conduct. This matter is of too
much importance to rest where it is. I am told that
Lord Dudley's mines are worth to rent four times more
than all Kingswinford Parish is rated at, and as Mr.
Plant put it at one of the meetings, 'the poor starving
people are rated up to the very last farthing, and at times
obliged to go without bread in order to save money to
pay their rates, while the rich do not pay one shilling in
the pound."
This rating of coal mines, canals, railways, and works
is a question for the whole Union, and not, as some of
oar townsfolk think. for Kingswinford parish only. Mr.
Plaut has done a great public service, and we must fol-
low the work up to conquest which has been started by
him.

TOWNSYAN.

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authenticated, will be inserted in the" Observer 'free of
charge.

MARRIED.

On the 23rd lost, at Aston Parish Church, Janus
Hume Phillips, Station-master, of this town. to flesh,
third aaughter of Emanuel Cookson, Esq., Kew Tills,
Wollaston.
DIED.

On the 17th inst, at Henley-on-Thames, of bronchitis,
nged 51, liduien Jane, relict of the late Thomas It tter
liurbury Solicitor Bea,Dec.

On the 10th test, at Wiltint„ton, near Slourbridge,
aged 77, Ehzabth, relict of Mr. Joseph Toy, much res.
pected.
On the 10th lest, aged 60, James Batchlor, ef Kidder.
minster, deeply regretted.
On the 11th just, at Green Bank Villa, Worailey, aged
60, Mr. John Harper.
On the 22ud lost, at Laurel Cottage, the Brook, Bel-
bionghtan, after a ten hence illness, Mice Ann Tudor;
deeply rsretted.

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