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express their most unqualified approval of the system of
accounts adopted by the Corporation, enabling them to
ascertain (with as little labour as is possible in transac-
tions of such magnitude), the correctness of the accounts,
as well as the exact position of the Corporation.
" And they cannot but record their satisfaction at the
beautiful and accurate way in which the accounts are
kept, and their approbation of the attention and assi-
duity of the official gentlemen whose duty it is to pre-
pare, explain, and lay the same before them.
(Signed) "
MARTIN DERMER.
RICHARD WALTER.
JAMES JARDINE.
W. SHEPHERD.
" Guildhall, May 17, 1844."
APPENDIX A.

A brief statement of the Corporation receipt and ex.
penditure for the year ending 31st Dec., 1842 :

RECEIPT.

Balance on the last account £21,556 12 2;
Rents and quit rents ... 56,873 10 6;
Renewing fines
Markets

Tolls, duties, and offices
Bequests
Brokers' rents and fines 3,833 0 0
Freedoms, &c 3,560 9 2
Interest on Government securities
Casual sundry and incidental receipts
Sale of Securities 6,500 0 0

£182,547 11 8*

EXPENDITURE.
Charges on the Contra Rents, &c., viz.--
Charges in aid of public improvements.£ll,soo 0 0
Charges on the Corporation rental 7,546 1 1
Charges on the markets 8,879 4 1
Charges on tolls, duties, &c 22,070 2 11
Charges on brokers' rents 303 13 0
Payments in relief of a County Rate on
the Inhabitants, viz.—
Magistracy expenses 7,850 8 5
Police expenses
Newgate Prison
House of Correction 6,801 14 11
Debtors' Prison 6,561 15 11
General prison expenses l9 4 6
Administration of criminal justice
Office of coroner 924 2 8
Civil government of the City 28,596 6 9
Conservancy of Thames and Medway 4,612 17 5
Magistracy of Southwark and Borough
Compter
Charitable donations, &c.
Payment in respect of extinguishing the
right of alienation of offices .
Bequests
Sundry and miscellaneous expenses 10,284 18 4
Interest and annuities
Purchase of securities
Purchase of property 6,500 0 0

1,654 16 7
9,296 8 0

166,096 2 3
Balance on the account, 31st Dec. 1842 16,4 M 9 4

£182,547 11 81

APPENDLIC B.
The Balance Statement of the Arrears of Rents, Duties,
Government Securities, &c., due and belonging to the
Corporation of the City of London, on the 31st of
December, 1842, and of the Claims and other engage-
ments chargeable on the Corporation at the same
period.

LIABILITIES.
To amount remaining of
150,0001. borrowed
under the authority of
the Act for the re-
moval of Fleet-market £lO,OOO 0 0
To amount now owing
of the sum raised
under the Act for
making a street at
Holborn-bridge

For half a year's pay-
ment due to the Lon-
don-bridge Approaches
Fund 5,750 0 0
For annuities on lives
remaining unpaid
For interest on 10,000 L.
remaining of the sum
borrowed for the re-
moval of Fleet-market 175 0 0
For ditto on the sum
borrowed under the
Act for making a new
street from Holborn-
bridge
For compensation allow-
ances payable to late
Deputy Sea-coal Me-
ters, and others

568 8 9

849 11 7

2,969 19 0

10,312 19 4

66,212 19 4

Cash balance in favour of the Corpora-
tion, 31st December, 1842 22,532 19 74

£88,745 18 11i

ASSETS.
Balance of cash in hand on 31st of De-
cember, 1842 £16,451 9 41
By arrears of rents, City
of London and Liber-
ties £19,294 17 41
By arrears of counties of
Middlesex and Surrey 4,797 6 11
By arrears of Irish quit
rents
By arrears of tenancies-

96 1 11

at-will '
By arrears of City's pro-
portion of the Fins-
bury estate
By arrears "of markets,
tolls, duties, &c.
By arrears of brokers'

2,713 10 4

rents 4,892 0 0
By arrears of casual re-
ceipts
By arrears of freedoms
voted to be sold for
City's use
By arrears of fees on
the admission of free-
men
By arrears of interest on
Government sedurities 361 13 4

351 4 0*

530 0 0

107 2 6

Debt from the fund for
lighting Blackfriars-
bridge
Debt from the fund for
improving the navi-
gation of the river
Thames 15,000 0 0
Debt from the City's
moiety of the Gres-
ham estate

39,989 15 5

• £88,745 18 11i
GOVERNMENT SECURITIES ALSOREL ONGING TO TEE

CORPORATION.
A capital of Consolidated Three per
Cent. Annuities £30,350 9 2
A capital of Reduced Three per cent
Annuities B,lBO 15 2
A capital of Reduced Three-and-a-Half
per Cent. Annuities 21,073 5 10
Note.—The above is exclusive of the value of the
Corporation estates.
APPENDIX C.
A brief statement of the receipt and expenditure of
the City moiety of the estate of Sir Thomas Gresham,
Knight, for the year ending 10th October, 1842 :
ItiCEIPTS.
A moiety of rent of Excise-office 4500 0 0
Interest on stock 92 1 2
Sale of stock
Amount received on account of loan to-
wards building the Royal Exchange 30,000 0 0

£35,779 3 8