The Sun.
London, England, 1835-02-13 00:00:00

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PRICE 7D.

MEETING OF MIDDLESEX MAGIS-

TRATES.

( Concluded from The Sun of Yesterday.)
EXPENDITURE OF THE COUNTY OF MIDDLESEX.

The Report of the Committee for Accounts, and for
General Purposes, was then road by the Clerk. It was as
follows :

"MIDDLESEX.

" To his Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the County of
Middlesex, in their general Session of the Peace for the said

County, held in the-Month of February, 1835, assembled--
" The Report of the Committee for Accounts, and for Ge-
neral Purposes, upon the first Report of the Committee of
Vestry of St. George, Hanover-square, on the expenditure of
the County of Middlesex,' referred to them to examine and
report upon, by order of the Court at the last Session :
" Your Committee report that, pursuant to the directions of
the Court, they have carefully examined this Report, and com-
pared it with the Treasurer's printed accounts, and hive di-
vided the complaints made under two heads—the first of which
is the amount of the estimated expenditure exceeding the ac-
tual expenditure.

" Tlie answer to this is, that the actual expenditure is easily
ascertained after the disbursements are made, and includes the
bare quarter of a year, whereas the estimated expense must not
only provide for that time, but also for the additional time that
must elapse between the making a new rate and the receiving
it, generally exceeding a month, so that in fact the one is the
expenditure of three months, the other a provision for upwards
of four.

" The following statement will show that, l!owever large
the estimates may be, they do not cause any unnecessary taxa-
tion :

The whole of the expenditure from October, 1833,
to October, 1834, amounts to £66,246 4 8
Total amount of county rate for the same time 66,111 10 4
The expenditure exceeding the rate, which is made -

up by petty receipts Xr; 12 4
" Of this expenditure, 26,135/. 4s. 2d. are payments for the
interest and liquidation of bonds, the tontine, and two an-
nuities. amounting to 230/.
" The second complaint is as easily answered, namely, that
of making a rate when the amount of the balance in the trea-
surer's hands and the uncollected rates, amounting to a larger
sum than the expense of the quarter, and therefore no addi-
tional rate ought to have been made ; but that it was the duty
of the magistrates to have enforced the payment of the arrears.
" The following statement will show that if the magistrates
could have collected the whole of the arrears, a rate would still
have been necessary ; this explanation will also assist and
throw alight upon the former one.

" Taking their own figures in their report upon what they
denominate firseaccount, page 5

Cash in treasurer's hands -
Uncollected rates made at and previous to the June
sessions

Total £21,012 13 104
Disbursements.by the treasurer to December 28,
being the expiration of the quarter
Remaining balance in the hands of the treasurer
at that time £1,872 10 3

" Further disbursements by the treasurer, from 28th De-
cember, 1833, including the 17th January, 1834, being the
earliest day upon which the precepts for another rate could be
sent out, and after that time thirty days are allowed for pay-
ment, 3,3111. ss. 10d.

" Subtracting the 1,8721. 10s. 3d. from 3,3111. ss. 10d.,
would leave a deficiency of 1,438/. 15s. 7d. The disburse-
ments from the 17th of January until the 16th February, being
the thirty days allowed before the rate can be enforced, would
add to this amount a further sum of 1,4931. 9s. Ild., after
which, deducting what had been received upon the new rate up
to that time, making a total deficiency of 2,932/. ss. 6d..
£1,438 15 7
1,493 9 11