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sums amounting to $72.26.
When this has been given it
will close the Accounts to 31st December 1895 and a proper
roll of Squatters has been opened at the Treasury from 1st
January 1896.
The arrears of Village House Rents on 31st December
1894 were $712.39. A very large portion of these have
been collected and the arrears on the corresponding date
in 1895 were only $236.00.
3. A very marked improvement has taken place
in the collections of rates for the City of Victoria, and
the whole of the rates due to 31st December 1895 were
collected by the 22nd December, and the Revenue Files
closed and balanced, thus leaving no arrears to be carried
forward to 1896.
4. The work in connection with Village Rates
has also been most satisfactory. As mentioned in the
Report for 1894, the arrears, as shown in the Revenue
Files at the close of that year, were $6,856.
After allowing for a sum of $477, authorised by the
Secretary of State to be written off for years prior to the
commencement of 1892, the total arrears to be carried
(2)
forward