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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

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