The poor-rates in Camberwell have been reduced one half under
the operation of the new Pour-law. A correspondent of the Chronicle recently complained that no diminution of the cost of maintaining the poor had been effected by the new regulations; the rate, he said, was still 10d. in the pound. But he was informed by another writer in the same paper, that the tenpenny rate was for hay a year, instead of
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The parish of St. Andrew, London, formerly paid a scavenger 400/. a year for cleaning their streets ; which after some time being thoneht too much, the person engaged to do it for 3001., then for 20CL, for loOL, and finally for nothing. The parish afterwards contracted with a person who gave them :2001, then 400/., and now they actually receive 700/. a year for the soil of their streets. Sonic years ago the Vestry of Marylebone parish paid a Mr. Harper the annual sum of :)00/. for that service, then 300/. was given, and so on. At this mo- ment, however, instead of paying any thing, the Vestry yearly receive rein their scavenger 17001.—Moraing Chronicle.
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