The Sun.
London, England, 1863-06-13 00:00:00

CITY SEWERS COMMISSION,

Yesterday the accounts of the Commissioners of Sewers
for the year ending Michaelmas last were printed and tit-
culated amongst the members of the Corporation.
The consolidated account shows that the outlay has beer•
—for paving, £23,376 7s 9d ; lighting the publi. lamps,
£13,452 7s 9d ; cleaning the streets, £8,106 ; watering ditto,
£1,231; and sanatory works, £1,295 Bs. The salaries to
the medical officer of health and inspectors amounted to
£B9B 12s, and there was incurred in prosecuting parties for
the sale of diseased meat, &c., £2ll 4s 4d. The commis-
sioners expended during the year no less a sum than £32,792
12s 8d for widening and improving certain streets within
the city, and the legal conveyancing and surveying expenses
incident thereto cost £1,618 ss, and the sundry expenses,
came to a further sum of £676 15s 3d. The law and Par-
liamentary expenses incurred amounted to £1,813 16s 9d,
and the charges for sundry artificers reached no less a sum
than £3,199 17s 4d. The officers' salaries and retiring al-
lowances amounted to £1,224 6s, whilst the charges for
wages, rents, rates, &c., in respect of the stone yards, were
£5,067 is ld. Under the head sundries, which includes the
rents of offices, rates, stationery, printing, advertisements,
&c., it appears that the amount expended was £2,145 7s ld.
The total commission paid to collectors amounted to £3,161
198 Bd, and further on account of the erection of the new'
offices the sum of £2,535 lOs 5d was paid. The sum ex-
pended in carrying into effect the Gas Measurement Act
was £2,542 Os Bd, and several other items, including wages
to clerks of works, annuities, &c., raise the total outlay an
the consolidated account to £113,139 12s 3d.
On the other side we find that the sum raised by the con-

solidated rate, after deducting the estimated deficiencies,
was £98,606 13s sd. £3,871 4s lld was voted by the Me-
tropolitan Board in aid of improvements within the city,
the rents, old materials, &c., produced £545 is 11d, while
the produce of the sale of ground-rents, and other inci-
dental receipts, reached £11,289 8s 2d. The sum of
£1,036 15s 8d was received by fees on hoards and scaffold-
ings compositions in aid of payments, and fines on contrac-
tors and others. The sum received from the justices under
the provisions of the Gas Measurement Act was £1,526 ls.
£54 is 9d was received on the sale of condemned meat;
£l7 19s 8d by balance of interest ; raising the total amount
of the revenue on the consolidated account to £116,947
6s 6d, being an excess over the outlay of £3,807 14s 3d.
The expenses of the City of London Cemetery at Ilford
during the year reached £4,851 7s 10d, whilst there was
received by sale of ground for vaults and interments and
other charges £5,227 9s 3d, leaving a balance of revenue
over outlay of £376 is sd.
The consolidated account shows on the debtor side a
balance due to the treasurer of £24,830 4s 9d ; to contract
creditors, £19,475 19s 3d ; to ditto in suspense, £13,817
lOs 5d ; annuitants, £35 95 65 ; warrants in hand or not
paid, £5,958 65 ; contract creditors on the cemetery account,
£509 4s 10d ; which, with the sums of excess of revenue
over outlay on the consolidated account of £3,807 14s 3d,
and of the cemetery account of £376 is sd, give a total of
£68,810 lOs sd. On the creditor side we have, per balance
in the hands of the clerk, £243 13s; arrears of rates July
1861, January 1862, July 1862, with estimated deficiency,
to the amount of £51,503 12s 8d; sundry debtors, £1,746
6s 9d ; and debtors on dangerous structures account,
£2,581 19s 9d, giving a total on the consolidated account of
£54,329 56 5d ; by sundry debtors on the cemetery
account, £330 19s ld ; total, £54,660 4s 6d. These,
together with a balance of outlay over revenue, being the
total of outlay for cemetery to 29th September, 1861, less
excess of revenue over outlay on the consolidated rate ac-
count to the same date, of £14,150 5s 11d, gives an exact
balance of the grand total on the debtor side of
£68,810 lOs sd.
The sewers account of revenue and outlay is as follows :-
To charges incurred in building new sewers, £590 ls ; cleans-
ing and repairing sewers, £4,208 Oa 2d ; building private
drains, £312 12s ; and for minor works, and law and par-
liamentary charges connected therewith, £lll is lld ;
total, £5,225 155 ld. Amount of calls on the city
of London by the Metropolitan Board of Works towards
their general expenditure for the year 1862, £6,094 17$ 6d,
together, £11,320 12s 7d. The account shows an excess of
revenue over outlay of £6,186 15s ld, leaving the grand
total £17,507 7s Bd. The debtor side of the sewers account
with the Metropolitan Board of Works on the main drainage
rate, 1862, with the collector's commission thereon, making
rate books, &c., is set down at £16,829 2s 10d, the creditor
side furnishing £16,530 16s 5d as the amount of the metro-
politan main drainage rate at 3d in the pound, leaving a
balance, being excess of outlay over revenue on that rate of
£298 6s sd. The sewers account balance-sheet for the year
shows cash in the hands of the treasurer and clerk of
£8,876 7s 7d; the gross total, by arrears, less estimated de-
ficiencies on the year, &c., being £10,380 14s,
Messrs, H. Croysdill, G. H. Jay, and Wm. Turquand,
the auditors appointed by the Corporation, have duly passed
the accounts, which have been certified as correct by the
Commissioners of Sewers, and signed by the chairman,
Do Jersey, Esq., deputy.