Report from Select Committee on Metropolis Sewers : with minutes of evidence, and an appendix.

  • Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Select Committee on Metropolis Sewers.
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[1834]
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Credit: Report from Select Committee on Metropolis Sewers : with minutes of evidence, and an appendix. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    19 March 1834. / y 4 MINUTES OF EVIDENCE TAKEN BEFORE 40. When you say that all the premises in the districts upon which you levy a rate are assessed to that rate in that district, explain what you mean by a district ? —Within the level. 50. Explain what you mean by the level ?—Every thing comprehended within the districts laid down upon the map. 51. Those coloured districts in the map you call levels?—Yes. 52. If you were to describe those districts, you would call them different levels ?— No; we call them districts. 53. Flow long is it since private dwellings were permitted to be drained into sewers ; the soil, for instance, from water-closets ?—I should think from about the beginning of the present century. 54. Not earlier ?—No. 55. Previously to that the soil from necessaries was not allowed to go into the sewers ?—No, they were not; and there are many instances of persons having been fined for it. 56. It was all deposited in cesspools, between which and the sewers there was no communication ?—Yes; and which were necessary to be emptied by night-carts. 57. By what authority was that change made?—By the authority of the different Commissioners of Sewers ; when the sewers were so improved as to be able to carry off that soil, it was permitted. 58. Have you different rates for different districts?—Yes ; every district keeps its own accounts. 59. How many different accounts are kept by your commission ?—Four. 60. Is all properly that is rated to the poor rated to the sewers’-rate ?—Yes. 61. Do you adopt as your rental for rating the poor’s-rate rental of the different parishes, or do you make a separate assessment?—No; we take the rack-rent of each parish; some parishes rate at a modus of four-fifths ; but we take the rack of all. 62. How do you get the rack-rent?—By knowing the modus, and adding to it. 63. What is the average amount of the rates levied now upon the rack-rent ?— This Account, which I am ordered to bring, will explain it. {The Witness delivered in the following Paper;] • \ ABSTRACT of the Accounts of the Commissioners of Sewers for the City and Liberty of Westminster, and part of the County of Middlesex, for the last Ten Years, showing the Amount of Receipt and Expenditure in each Year. 1824. 1825.- 1826- 1827. - 1828. - 1829. - 1830. - 1831. - 1832. - 1833- Receipt : -Balance from the account of. 1823 Received during the year 1824 -Received -Received -Received -Received -Received -Received -Received -Received -Received during the during the during the during the during the during the during the during the during the year 1825 year 1826 year 1827 year 1828 year 1829 year 1830 year 1831 year 1832 year 1833 1824 1825 1826 1827 ] 828 1829 1830 1831 1832 *833 Expenditure : -Expended during the year 1824 - -Expended during the year 1825 -Expended during the year 1826 - -Expended during the year 1827 - -Expended during the year 1828 - - - -Expended during the year 1829 - -Expended during the year 1830 - - - -Expended during the year 1831 - -Expended during the year 1832 - -Expended during the year 1833 - Balance carried to the account of 1834 Sewers Office for Westminster, &c.I 19 March 1834. J £. s. d. £. s. d. 623 19 6 .357 l7 5 29,981 16 11 - - - 28,837 10 10 - - - 22,740 19 6 - - - 28,375 l7 11 - - - 19,209 O 6 — - 39424 1 10 - - 28,009 17 9 - “ 35,394 19 7 - - - 11,274 12 3 - • 37,54b 3 2 £. 280,795 2 3 _ _ 24,168 1 1 - - - 24,360 4 1 - - - 29,410 10 — - - - 23,505 *7 10 - - - 27,340 15 3 - - - 33,998 13 9 - . - - 30,427 8 11 - - - 23,643 - 11 - - - 19,724 12 TO - - - 33410 3 7 - - 10,805 14 — £. 280,795 2 3 John Houseman, Clerk. 64. Enumerate