l8 AMOUNT OF VESTRY CESS LEVIED IN EACH PARISH IN PARISH OF ST. PAUL, DUBLIN. 1 8 5 9. 1 8 GO. 1 861. 1862. 1 863. s. d. s. cl. s. d. S. d. s. d. Amount of vestry cess levied ... 91 5 11 71 6 3 132 .3 6 102 - - 102 - - Amount expended 86 14 3 106 G 11 125 7 7 98 10 7 76 2 5 Items of Expenditure : Salary, & c. of the vestry clerk ... 21 1 — • 21 1 - 21 1 — 21 1 — 21 1 - Salary of the cess collector - 20 — _ 20 — - 20 — - 20 — — 15 - - Salary of the engine- keeper - - - - 12 - - 12 - - 12 - - 12 - - 12 - - Salary of the beadle, and for his clothes 17 - - 17 - - 17 - - 17 - - 17 - - Repair of parish fire- engines ... 8 - 6 10 2 G 7 10 G 2 16 - — Coffins for the poor 2 1 6 2 19 9 4 3 6 2 2 - 2 - - Maintenance of deserted children - - - - - 10 9 4 17 10 2 2 - - Premiums to fire- engine keepers - 3 13 9 4 14 4 - 18 1 1G 11 - 18 Expenses attending on the inspection of fire- engines by the Lord Mayor ... - - - 19 - 1 - - - - 1 - - To provide an escape ladder - - - - - - o 11 - — — — Cleaning, & c., the churchyard and burial ground ------- - - 1 13 5 1 13 - 1 10 _ 1 13 - Printing, & c. ------ - - 3 5 3 1 6 10 - 15 - 2 10 - Repairs of vestry room and premises - - 5 10 6 — — — Coals for the vestry - - - 1 14 - - 18 - - 17 - 1 - — Donation to the " Royal Irish Society for the Prevention of Fire " - - - - - 20 - - — — Sundries ( advertisements, winding of clock, & c.) 2 17 G 2 7 2 1 7 - 1 2 6 — 86 14 3 106 6 11 125 7 n 98 10 7 76 2 5 The churchwardens' accounts for the year 1G6 3 have not been closed, nor can they be audited until Easter 18G4 ; and as all claims have not been as yet furnished to them, and further demands may be made for the last year, the return for the year 1803 cannot be more accurately stated. 2 March 18G4. Henry Foster, Vestry Clerk. I HAVE thought it right to annex to the accompanying return of Mr. Henry Foster, vestry clerk of my parish, a statement of" the sums assessed for the following purposes" at the Easter vestries in the years 1859, 1860,1861, 1862, and 1863, as extracted from the parochial vestry book, and subscribed by me as chairman of those vestries:— 1£ $ 5 9. 1860. 1861. 1 8 6 2. 1 8 6 3. £. s. d. £. s. d. £. s. d. £. s. d. £. s. d. Vestry clerk ------ 20 - - 20 — — 20 — — 20 - - 20 - - Beadle 12 - - 12 - - 12 - - 12 - - 12 - - Engine keeper ------ 12 - - 12 - - 12 - - 12 - - 12 - — Coffins ------- 5 - - 5 - - 5 - - 5 - - 5 - — Stationery ------- 1 1 - 1 1 - 1 1 - I 1 - 1 1 - Cess collector ------ 20 - - 20 - - 20 - - 20 - - 15 - - Clothes for beadle 5 - - 5 - - 5 - - 5 - - 5 - - Deserted child ------ - - - - - - 3 - - — Repair of roof of vestry - O - - 2 10 - — — — Parish ladder ------ - 2 10 - — — — Preservation of life from fire - - - 20 5, Blackhall- street, 3 March 1864. W. J. H. Le Faun, A. M., Rector.