The tithes of Great Britain and Ireland are said to amount to 4,000,000/.
It is instructive to compare the present amount of taxes with that rendered neces sary by a war expenditure. From 1805 to 1818 the payments into the British exchequer from taxes and loans in no one year amounted to less than 100,000,000l., and in 1813 arose to the enormous sum of 176,346,023/.
There was published under the direc tion of the Poor-Law Commissioners in 1846, a valuable work entitled The Local Taxes of the United Kingdom, containing a Digest of the Law with a Summary of statistical Information con cerning the several Local Taxes in Eng land, Scotland, and Ireland.' England includes England and Wales. It is re marked in the Introduction that "these Local Taxes are of two kinds: the rates raised in defined districts ; and the tolls, dues, and fees paid for particular services or on certain occasions. But those rates only will be here noticed, which are au thorised by general statutes or the com mon law ; excluding such as derive their origin from special or local Acts." The rates are divided into three classes. I. Rates of independent districts, on the basis of the poor-rate. II. Rates of in dependent districts, not on the basis of the poor-rate. III. Rates of aggregate distracts on the basis of the poor-rate. No. I. comprehends-I, The Poor Rate. 2, The Workhouse Building Rate. 3, The Survey and Valuation Rate. 4, The Jail Fees' Rate. 5, The Constables' Rate. 6, The Highway Rates (three). 7, The Lighting and Watching Rate. 8, The Militia Rate. No. II. comprehends -1, The Church Rates (three). 2, The Sewer* Rate. 3, The General Sewers' Tax. 4, The Drainage and Inclosure Rates. 5, The Inclosure Rate. s, The Regulated Pasture Rate. No. III. cons-. prehends--Counties. I, The County Rate. 2, The Police Rate. 3, The Shire Hall Rate. 4, The Lunatic Asylam Rate. 5, The Burial Rate.-Hundreds. 6, The Hundred Rate.-Boroughs. 7, The Bo rough Rate. 8, The Watch Rate. 9, The Jail Rate. 10, The Prisoners' Rates. 11, The Lunatic Asylum Rate. 12, The
Museum Rate.-Counties and Boroughs. 13, The District Prison Rates.
The nature of many of these several rates may be collected from the article RATES and the articles referred to in that article. The nature of those rates which are not particularly mentioned in this Dictionary, is fully explained in the work published under the direction of the Poor Law Commissioners.
The head of Tolls, Dues, and Fees comprehends-1, Turnpike Tolls. 2, Borough Tolls and Dues. 3, Light Dues. 4, Post Dues. 5, Church Dues and Fees. 6, Marriage Fees. 7, Regis tration Fees. 8, Justiciary Fees.
The following statement is given in the work published under the direction of the Commissioners, as an approximate summary of the present annual amount of the Local Rates in England and Wales (p. 178).
• The 3 Si 4 Wm. IV. c. 22, the chief provisions of which act have been stated under Ssw use, was amended by 4 g: 5 Vict. c. 45.
The Parish Rates:— Poor-rate, including the Workhouse Building Rate, and the Survey and Va luation Rate . . .
Relief of the Poor . . 4,976,093 Other objects . . 567,567 Contributions to County and Borough Rates . . See below The Jail Fees' Rate . . Unknown The Constables' Rate . do.
The Highway Rates . . 1,312,812The Lighting and Watching Rate . . . . Unknown The Militia Rate . Not needed The Church Rates . . 506,812 The Sewer Rate, and the General Sewers' Tax— In the Metropolis . . 82,097 In the rest of the country . Unknown Drainage and Inclosure Rates, The Inclosure Rate, The Regulated Pasture Rate . Unknown The County The Hundred Rate from the 1,356,457 The Borough Rate £8,801,838 Tolls, Dues, and Fees . . 2,607,241 ---- £11,409,0; 9 Some of the taxes are regularly in creasing, and the produce of some, as appears from this table, is not known. It is assumed that the Local Taxation of England and Wales may be in round numbers twelve millions; but this esti mate, as already shown, does not include the sums raised under special or local acts, of the amount of which sums no es timate can be formed.