4. Finances.

The following sheets present Abstracts of the Income and Expenditure, in 1840 and in 1841, of the 178 boroughs under the Corporation Act. These make a return annually to the Secretary of State, of the yearly accounts last audited; and the present abstracts are derived from the copies of their accounts last laid before Parliament (Session 1841, No. 233, and Sess. 1842, No. 302). The very few blanks which appear in the accounts for these years are supplied from those of preceding years, for the sake of totals approaching to accuracy.

Abstract of the Statements of Moneys received and expended on account of the 178 Boroughs in England and Wales, included in the Schedules of the Corporation Act, in the Years 1840 and 1841.

RECEIPTS FROM WHAT SOURCES DERIVED :—

Balance due to Treasurer

Administration of justice, prosecutions, &c..
Police and constables

Coroner.

Rent, rates, taxes, and insurance

Salaries, pensions, and allowances to Mu

nicipal Officers

Miscellaneous

Mu- 75,183 1 4 80,757 11 54

Balance in Treasurer's hands and at the thel 54,449 8 2 93,652 4 7

Banker's

Total.

£938,725 19 5942,953 2 41

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TABLE X.—ABSTRACT STATEMENT of the Moneys Received and Expended on Account of the Boroughs whose Institutions have been Remodelled by the Corporation Act, 5 and 6 Will. IV. c. 76, during the Years 1840 and 1841. [The sums in the last column distinguished by an asterisk (*) are not correct totals of those in the preceding columns, as they profess to be; and the total of the last column is not therefore a correct total of all the others. The sums are faithfully copied from the accounts published by Parliament, which, however, afford no means of rectifying these obvious errors, or even of determining whether it be in the items or in the totals that they occur.]

TABLE X.-Abstract Statement of the Moneys Received and Expended on Account of the Boroughs whose Institutions have been Remodelled, &c.—continued.

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