_£ s._ _£_
Chairman 1,000
Secretary and 7 clerks 1860 0
Accountant and 5 clerks 1015 0
Clerk of rates and 3
clerks 630 0
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3,505
Engineer and 5 clerks 1830 0
7 surveyors, of surveying
and drawing staff, with
6 chainmen and 9 drawing
clerks 2125 0
5 district surveyors 1500 0
12 clerks of works 2278 0
9 inspectors of flushing 720 0
22 flap and sluice
keepers 892 12
Bailiff, marsh-bailiff, and
wallreeve 187 8
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9,533
Office keeper, strong-room
keeper, and housekeeper 350 0
3 messengers and 3 errand-boys 246 0
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596
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£14,634
The cost of rent, taxes, stationery, and office incidentals, is now
4440_l._, which makes the total yearly outlay amount to upwards of
19,000_l._ The annual cost of the staff in the secretary’s department
is said to have been reduced from 3962_l._ 4_s._ to 3605_l._; in the
engineers’ department from 16,437_l._ 3_s._ to 8973_l._ 16_s._ In the
general service there has been an increase from 606_l._ 16_s._ to
696_l._
A deputation who waited lately upon Lord John Russell is said to have
declared the expenses of the Commissioners’ office to be at the rate
of from 25 to 30 per cent. on the amount of rate collected. The sum
collected in the year 1850 averaged 89,341_l._ The cost of management
in that year was 23,465_l._; this, it will be seen, is 26 per cent of
the gross income.
The annual statement of the receipts and expenditure under the
Commission for the year 1851 has just been published, but not
_officially_; from this it appears that in February, 1851--
The balance of cash in hand _£ s. d._
was 5,750 9 11
The total receipts during the
year have amounted to 129,000 0 9
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Making together 134,750 10 8