151 LICENCE DUTIES NOT PASSING THROUGH THAT ACCOUNT. year, (I) the sums distributable to Local Authorities out of the Local Taxation Account and Taxation Account) to which section 6 of the Finance Act, 1908, applies, and (II) the sums Animals Act, 1894, for the purposes of the Cattle Pleuro-pneumonia Account for Great Britain, ing one-half of the amount of certain rates assessed on owners of tithe rentcharge attached to a benefice. Finance Act, 1908, as amended by Section 62 of the Finance Act, 1921, is not included in the Table. Cols. 4 and 6.-Under section 88 (2) of the Finance (1909-10) Act, 1910, as extended by section 18 (1) of the Revenue Act, 1911, the amount retainable by Local Authorities in respect of the duties on licences for carriages was equivalent to the amount, namely £536,954, of the proceeds of those duties for the year 1908-09. Section 1 of the Roads Act, 1920, provides that the duties on licences for carriages shall, as from the 1st January, 1921, be paid into the Exchequer. The sum of £536,954 is now, under section 2 (2) of that Act, payable annually to the Local Taxation Account for distribution to the Local Authorities. § Col. 5.-Upon the coming into operation of section 6 of the Finance Act, 1908, the proceeds of the duties on licences to deal in game, licences to kill game, licences for dogs, guns, carriages, armorial bearings, and male servants, ceased to pass through the Local Taxation Account. Power to levy these duties was transferred to the councils of Counties and County Boroughs in England and Wales as from 1st January, 1909. As to subsequent legislation relating to the duties on licences for carriages see note . Col. 8.-Under the provisions of section 17 (1) of the Revenue Act, 1911, the amount payable to the Local Taxation Account in respect of the Local Taxation (Customs and Excise) Duties is now equivalent to the amount namely £1,107,260, of the proceeds of those duties for the year 1908-09. Section 17 (2) of the Act also provided that there should be paid into the Account in respect of the year 1909-10, any amount by which the proceeds of the duties for that year fell short of the proceeds for the year 1908-09. Year 1921-22.-The sums entered in columns 2, 5, 7, and 10, are approximate only, the exact sums not being ascertainable until a later date. 152 APPENDIX XI. STATEMENT showing, for the year 1919-20, (1) the aggregate expenditure (other than expenditure than from loans and rates) so far as allocated to specific services; (3) the balance of their defrayed out of loans; and (5) the amount of their outstanding loan debt, distinguishing (Compiled from Returns furnished under the Specific receipts loans and rates) SERVICES. 1. each Fees, tolls, rents, proceeds of sales, and other receipts, not being grants 5. £ Expenditure (other than out of loans). 729,744 (iii) Hospitals, sanatoria, dispensaries, etc. :For tuberculosis (a) Col. 3.-" Loan charges comprise (i) interest on borrowed moneys; (ii) repayments of principal made otherwise than out of sinking funds; and (iii) payments into sinking funds. (b) Item 3 (ii).-Including scavenging (other than scavenging of roads and streets, which is included against item 8). (c) Item 3 (iii).—Including the fever and small-pox hospitals of the Managers of the Metropolitan Asylum District. Sums expended by Boards of Guardians in respect of infirmaries are entered against item 7 and not against item 3 (iii). (d) Items 4 and 7.-Col. 6.-Excluding the part of the grant under the Agricultural Rates Act, 1896, which may be taken to have been applied in aid of rates for the relief of the poor (including the maintenance of lunatics in county and borough asylums). That part (approximately £500,000) is included against item (i) (a) in footnote (h). (e) Item 8.-Col. 2.-Including approximately £3,200,000 in respect of scavenging and watering of roads and streets not charged as maintenance. (f) Col. 7.-The amounts entered in column 7 against items 18, 20, 21 and 23 represent excess of aggregate income over aggregate expenditure, and are deducted in arriving at the total of the column. The amounts are net, i.e., deficiencies on some undertakings have been balanced against surpluses on other undertakings in each class. The sums transferred from rate accounts to meet deficiencies in the accounts of such of the services mentioned in items 19, 20, 21, 22, and 23 as showed deficiencies amounted to £2,036,773, and the surplus profits transferred in relief of rates from the accounts of such of the services as showed surpluses amounted to £985,683. 153 APPENDIX XI. defrayed out of loans) of the Local Authorities in England and Wales; (2) their receipts other expenditure falling on rates and receipts not allocated to specific services; (4) their expenditure the amounts in respect of each of the principal services. Local Taxation Returns Acts, 1860 and 1877, and other Acts). (g) Item 23.-Col. 9.-Including £5,367,370 in respect of loans advanced to the Manchester Ship Canal Company. In the tables for earlier years the corresponding amount has been included against "Other specific services.' (h) The total of £123,218,082 entered in col. 7 was met out of the undermentioned receipts : 7,341,627 .. 105,633,359 2.1 6.4 91.5 (iii) Rates received during the year.. (iv) Total of rates and unallocated receipts (v) Add.—Amount by which balances in hand were decreased during the year (vi) Total (agreeing with total of column 7) ..123,218,082 (i) £59,891,519 (including £22,178,329 in respect of the loans entered against items 19, 20, 21, 22, and 23) stood at the end of the year to the credit of sinking funds towards the repayment of such of the outstanding loans entered in column 9 as were repayable by means of those funds. Appendix XIII PERSONS IN RECEIPT OF POOR LAW RELIEF. CALEND Number per 1000 of Pop n JAN FEB MAR APR. MAY JUNE JULY AUG SEP. OCT P Number Number per 1000 of Pop? |