(About 1859) - COUNTY RATES. – The annual accounts of the County Treasurers of England and Wales show that in the year ending at Michaelmas last the county and police rates produced £1,222,765, the allowance received from the Treasury amounted to £259,639, and there was £86,875 received on account of lunatics. The expenditure upon gaols and prosecutions amounted to £424,533, upon lunatic asylums to £145,734, and £28,722 on the maintenance of pauper lunatics, and upon county bridges £50,713. The clerks of the peace were paid £44,319, the coroners £53,230, inspectors of weights and measures £10,715, and county treasurers, £8,931. The county rate was assessed on £68,423,261; in 1858 the assessment was only £65,207,286. The rates varied in different counties from less than 2d. to more than 8d.

 

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