260 APPENDIX TO REPORT OF SELECT COMMITTEE, & c. PARISH OF ST. CATHARINE. A RETURN of Taxes collected in the Parish of St. Catharine, Dublin, so far as comes under the knowledge or control of the Churchwardens. MINISTER'S MONEY On l, Boo houses, which this parish contains, amounts to £. 510; but on. account of the number of houses which are unoccupied, and the insolvency of a great many of the pa- rishioners, the average collection is only about - - - - - £. 350. 0. o. PARISH CESS, For repairs of the church, and other necessary charges attending the same, applotted last year at the rate of is. ! jd. to the shilling on the minister's money received, the sum col- lected amounts to ---------- - £. 444. 11. 1. EASTER DUES., For the support of the parish clerk, payable by custom at nine- pence for each house, would amount to upwards of sixty pounds per year; but as the payment is generally resisted, the average collection is only about - - - - - - - £. 16. 0. 0. GRAND JURY CESS. Of this tax, the churchwardens have only the power of calling vestries to applot the amount of warrants issued by the Court of King's Bench at Easter and Michaelmas terms every year, the collectors being appointed by, and accountable to the grand jury. Danl Watson Ww. 0rd} Churclwardens- PARISH OF ST. JAMES. AMOUNT of the Cess of the Parish of St. James, applotted for the year 1822. The applotment for the above year, at the rate of 2 s. 3 d. to the minister's £. s. d. shilling on the city, and is. id. to ditto on the county part of said parish, amounted to--------- - 255 13 7 Of which sum, up to the 5th of May, there has been only collected - - 151 4 - Leaving a balance of - - - - £. 104 9 7 Little more of which can be expected, owing to the extreme poverty of the parish. With respect to the grand jury cess, the churchwardens are entirely under the control of the grand jury, to applot according to their warrant, at Easter and Michaelmas. The sums for last year applotted : For Easter - £. 168. 12. 11. Michaelmas - - - - - 174. 11. 5. Together with uncollected arrears amounting to - - 203. 16. 3. The vestry clerk makes out the applotment book, according to the sum, and then becomes under the control of the grand jury city treasurer. Also, on account of the recent alteration in levying the- Foundling Hospital tax, there is no child admitted without the sum of five pounds, to be raised and paid with them by the churchwardens, which payment is resisted by the greater proportion of the parishioners, and there is no mode of enforcing the payment. PARISH OF ST. LUKE. A RETURN of Taxes collected in the Parish of St. Luke, Dublin, so far as comes under the control of the Churchwardens. MINISTER'S MONEY On 381 houses, which this parish contains, amounts to £. 114. 6 s. lo< f.; but on account of a number of houses unoccupied, and the insolvency of a great many of the parishioners, the average collection is only - - - - - - - - £. 96. 0. 0. PARISH CESS. For repairs of the church and other necessary charges attending the same, applotted last year, at the rate of is. 6 d. to the shilling on the minister's money, amounts to £. 144; but for the above- mentioned reasons, there has only been collected last year, £. 123. 14. o, CLERK'S DUES, For the support of the parish clerk, being nine- pence per house, would amount to £. 14. 5s. yd.; but which the inhabitants in general resist, so that the average collection is only about ~ - - £. 4. o. o. irifigr-} a-"* ™ *^ •