The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-10-28 00:00:00

THE CORPORATION ACCOUNTS,

We are glad to be able to congratulate the Corporation
on the state of their finances. According to the annual
account furnished us, they had a balance this year, ending
the 20th of August last, of £50,311 7s. 7id. The entire
ordinary income of the Corporate estates amounted to the
large sum of £166,704 13s. 312 d., and the entire ordinary
expenditure having been £116,393 ss. Bd., a balance as
above was left for disposal. The total extraordinary in-
come of the Corporation, including the balance of £50,311
7s. 7A_d. of ordinary income over ordinary expenditure,
amounted to £156,347 9. s}d., and the extraordinary
expenditure having been £109,972 14s. 0141., left a balance
of £46,374 15s. 5d., of which £45,51115. 2d. remained in
the' hands of Arthur lleywood, Sons, and Co., and £863
14s. 3d. in the hands of the treasurer.

The principal items of ordinary income were the town
dues, which produced in Liverpool £105,424 15s. 7d.,

and at Runcorn£3,7o4 155., and which left a net in
after the expenses of collection, &c., of 1104,960 11

The fines nn the leases of 75 yeat4, the term for which
the Corporation building lauds are let, produced £23,014
17s. 9(1. The public markets brought in a net income of
£7.736 93. 9irl. The rents from tenants-at-will produced
£10,620 I'Bs. ld. The Tobacco Warehouses' rents pro.
duced .£5.121 2s. 10,1. net. The baths on George's Pier
cleared £355 3s. 4d. on the year. The baths and wash.
heuses for the poor, in Panl.street. netted £66 Os. 9d.

Ditto in Cornwallis-street, £236 63. The Wapping
estate rents cleared £2;974 10s. 9d. ' • the Newsham estate
cleared £1.169 133. 3d. ; and the North Shore estate;
£BBB 15s. The River Craft Dock brought in an income
of £1,410 193. 3d. The fees for magisterial business pro-
duced £7,168 193. 5d., and after all expenses left a balance
to the Borough Fund of £4,839 Os. 4d., in addition to a
balance of £1,787 3s. 2d. from summary convictions' fines.
The large items of ordinary expenditure were—interest
on Corporation bonds, £27,250 12s. 3d. ; annuities, £994
69.'9d. ; allowance to Mayor for civic hospitalities, £2,000;
salaries and stipends, including ministers of religion,
£3,390; law and parliamentary proceedings, £5,023 33.
2d. ; Town-clerk's department, £2,718 12s. Id. ; Trea-
surer's department, £1,149 15s. 2d. ; Surveyor's depart-
ment, 1,697 163. sd. ; establishment at Town-hall, £1.638
4s. 6(1. ; establishment at Sessions-house, £428 ss. 6d. ;
S. Luke's Church, £686 17s. 3d.; St. George's Church,

£737 3., 10d. ; St. Michael's Church, £664 Bs. 51. ; St.
Martin's Church, £606 4s. 3d.; St. Thomas's Church,
£367 lls. ; rates under Paving. and Sewerage Act, £5.887
19s. 10d. ; rates under Wallasey Embankment Act,

£1.665 2s. Bd. • public schools, £1,734 15s. 6d. ; consta-
bulary force and police expenses, including bridewells and
police-stations, £16,134 12,,. 43. ; lightinz and ire-police,

€'2,752 12.. 4d. ; accumulating fund under Borough Fund
Act of 1848, £1,341 4s. 54. ; repairs, maintenance of pri-
sons, and other expenses connected with the Borough
Gaol. £13.115 18s. id. ; acconnt of prosecutions at the
assizes and sessions, X 3,921 133.

The extraordinary income consisted (in addition to the
surplus balance on the ordinary account of the above-
mentioned £50,311 7s. 74d.) of balance of last year's
account in the hands of the treasurer, £499 15s. 64. ;
balance in the hands of Arthur Heywood, Sons, and Co.,
in hank accounts, .brought from last year's account,
£27,880 9s. Ild. ; money raised on bond under the Gaol
Act, the Borough Fund (1840) Act, the Baths and Wash-
houses Act, the Municipal Amendment Act, and the Im-
provement (1837) Act. £66,569 Bs. ; on account, of the
Birkenhead estate, £4;364 16s. Bd. ; and some lesser items.
The extraordinary expenditure is accounted for as fol-
lows t—Voted in aid of the watch rates in different dis-
tricts of the bornuqh, £11,325 14s. 2d. ; in liquidation
of bond debt, .£17,695 ; subscriptions and gratuities
£747 10s. ; improver-tie
1837, £13,286 15s. 1

£353 13s. 81-4. ; on amount of new assize courts and St.
Gporoe's Halt, £19,166 2s. 4d. •, on account of new gaol,
£35 927 4s. 2.1. ; on account of baths and washbonses,
£6 608 3d. ; on account. of Newsham-house Estate.
£3.913 Ils. 10d. ; on account of stock of wine. £383
7s. 2d.; for duty on interest on

on account of income tax. £2.544 lls. 2d. ; and the
balance, as above stated, of .C 45,511 Is. 2d. due from A.
Heywood. Son, and Co., and of £863 14s. 3d. in the
hands of the treasurer.