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<p n="859">Annual Rents of Premises on Lease£802..7-..<lb></lb>
Ditto let to Tenants at Will£<del>958..16</del>
.. 958..16..-</p>
<p n="860">Out of the last Article will be the<lb></lb>
following Deductions a paid by<lb></lb>
the Hospital Vizt.</p>
<p n="861">Land Tax129 -..-..<lb></lb>
Insurance80 -..-..<lb></lb>
Repairs on an Average of<lb></lb>
3 Years360 -..-..<lb></lb>
Allow for bad Tenants<lb></lb>
2.½ Per Cent20 -..-..<lb></lb>
CollectingPercent 35.16..<lb></lb>
624..16-</p>
<p n="862"> <hi rend="brace"> <lb></lb>
As the Governors are the Ground<lb></lb>
Landlord of all these Houses they have<lb></lb>
a two-fold Interest therein' it would<lb></lb>
therefore be Proper in the Statement to<lb></lb>
deduct what the Ground itself is worth<lb></lb>
which would be a Produce independant<lb></lb>
of the Exections, Say therefore 84 Houses<lb></lb>
at 40s. each<hi rend="braceResult">168 -..-..<lb></lb>
792..16..-</hi>
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<p n="863">So that the net Produce of the Houses as such<lb></lb>
is no more than166 -..-..</p>
<p n="864">And which upon a rough calculation of the<lb></lb>
Money expended in the Erections does not Produce<lb></lb>
more than three quarters Per Cent</p>
<p n="865">Upon the whole it appears by this Statement<lb></lb>
that the Houses in the Occupation of Tenants<lb></lb>
at Will are not so productive to the Hospital<lb></lb>
as they ought to be</p>
<p n="866">Under the Consideration of the means for<lb></lb>
remedying of this Evil it may be proper to state<lb></lb>
to the Governors the following Circumstances.</p>
<p n="867">It appears that the Inhabitants of this Parish<lb></lb>
have been for a Series of Years rather heavily<lb></lb>
taxed and owing to the destruction of Habitations<lb></lb>
to make room for Public Buildings and other<lb></lb>
Improvement the local Taxes which must still continue<lb></lb>
to be discharged by the remaining Inhabitants<lb></lb>
must of course fall more and more heavily</p>
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