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Rh ENDOWED CHARITIES.] ENGLAND 255 Counties or Cities. Income of Charities from Keai Estate. Total Income of Endowed Charities ENGLAND. Bedford . s. U. 22,547 15 5 . s. d. 24 997 18 5 Berkshire 17,324 16 2 26,994 1 9 Buckingham 11,972 1 1 16 169 4 11 Cambridge 17,510 7 10 20 973 4 2 Chester 10,618 13 10 15 016 8 9 Cornwall 2,763 6 8 4 106 3 3 Cumberland 2,808 4 4 5 600 16 5 Derby 15,1*59 16 5 19 483 11 Devon 34,816 13 ] 45 568 2 3 I onset. . 11 051 1 7 13 586 14 10 Durham 13,521 2 6 18 206 11 9 Kssex 22,151 15 9 28,949 4 Gloucester 22,990 4 9 30,271 7 10 Bristol (City of ). ... 33,396 14 4 48 356 11 1 Hereford. 8 686 1 15 777 6 10 Hertford 13 741 2 19 1 9 7 5 1 Huntingdon ... 3 816 17 11 4 649 17 9 Kent 44 014 6 8 64 783 4 5 Lancaster 42 672 7 3 57 874 17 3 Leicester 24 655 7 7 28 527 9 1 Lincoln 43,661 10 4 48 294 17 2 London (City of) : Chartered Companies Parochial Charities Westminster (City of) Middlesex 67,807 7 78,899 2 4 18,564 7 28 898 19 2 99,027 3 101,380 12 28,356 9 7 50 508 12 Monmouth 5 725 2 1 6 827 2 5 Norfolk 42 116 14 1 50 487 13 11 Northampton 26 281 12 4 31 249 13 11 Northumberland 22,552 16 8 27 44 12 2 Nottingham 20 935 17 2 24 704 2 6 Oxford 13 945 9 1 20 530 15 2 Rutland 6 165 8 10 6 686 8 6 Salop 19 583 13 8 27 693 4 4 Somerset 17^721 12 26 230 13 Southampton 13 820 3 1 23 969 10 Stafford 21 386 10 29 332 1 9 Suffolk 37 514 6 2 42 309 8 8 Surrey... . 53 640 3 8 70 9 4 10 1 Sussex 6 438 6 8 12 478 2 10 Warwick 55 812 8 10 63 376 16 2 Coventry (City of) 11 673 19 11 15 553 1 2 Westmoreland 4 590 5 3 7 469 8 8 Wiltshire 14 391 3 9 21 341 10 Worcester 25 459 5 9 37 627 2 York : City of, and East Riding North Riding 28,105 12 3 9 626 16 35,029 2 12 457 7 4 West Riding 58 472 3 88 181 13 NOKTH WALES. Anglesey 1 806 17 2 2 052 Carnarvon 1 781 11 2 2 090 19 4 Denbigh 5 110 5 2 6 426 7 6 Flint 1 053 10 10 1 535 3 6 Merioneth 567 10 10 1 057 14 4 Montgomery .. 1 033 14 2 1 640 10 5 SOUTH WALES. Brecon 2 9 9 17 9 O KQ7 If) fi Cardigan 381 13 553 5 9 Carmarthen 529 7 6 2 01 9 1 fi 1 ft Glamorgan 1 429 1 9 1 9 9 1 19 4 Pembroke 1 531 12 9 2 487 10 6 Radnor 690 13 2 CQ4 1 1 1 EXCLUSIVE OK COUNTIES. Diocesan Charities Charities Administered by Society of Friends. General Charities .., 1,315 1 9 17,185 11 2 390 795 1 5 10,801 7 8 27,425 11 9 616 556 5 5 Totals 1,558 250 19 1 2 198 461 3 8 operty It will be seen from the preceding table that the endow ed meut ol the mass of the charities is mainly in land. The irities. tota ^ area f ^ an( l belonging to the endowed charities at the date of the report, June 1877, amounted to 524,311 acres, which brought an annual rental of 1,443,177. Rent charges and fixed annual payments for laud produced a further sum of 115,073, bringing the total income from real estate up to 1,558,250. The annual income from personalty in 1877 amounted to 640,213, produced from 17,418,250 ot invested stock and 2,197,478 of other investments. Calculated at the rate of 4 per cent, interest, the total revenue of the endowed chanties of England and Wales represented, in 1877, a capital of close upon fifty- five millions sterling. Under the provisions of the Charitable Trusts Act of Trustees 1853, the personalty of the endowed charities has to be of chari- gradually transferred to the &quot; Official Trustees of Charitable table Funds,&quot; consisting of two persons appointed by the lord chancellor, who are invested with large powers both of transferment and re-transferment. Under very slow but steady progress, the Avork has been going on since the year 1854, and according to the twenty-fourth annual report of the Charity Commissioners, issued in 1877, the total sum of stocks and investments held by the &quot; Official Trustees &quot; at the end of 1876 amounted to 7,177,942, after deduct ing a sum of 837,430 as re-transferments. The vastness of the work of the Charity Commissioners Division and &quot; Official Trustees &quot; is shown by the fact that the seven of chari- millions sterling standing in the names of the latter at the tie. s. as to end of the year 1876 were divided in no less than 8244 or separate accounts. The annual income of upwards of two millions sterling divided among the endowed charitable institutions of England and Wales may be thus analysed as to origin : Income of charities in London and Westminster, in- eluding city companies 228,764 ,, ,, other local charities 1,314,914 ,, ,, general charities 654,783 Total 2,198,461 The principal objects to which this annual income is devoted were stated as follows in the twenty-fourth annual report of the Charity Commissioners, issued in 1877 : Objects of Endowed Charities. Annual Income. Education, including apprenticing, &c 754,728 Clergy and lecturers of Church of England 90,843 Other Church purposes 1 12,895 Nonconformists chapels and ministers... 38,832 Parochial and other public uses 66,875 Asylums and almshouses 552,119 Hospitals and dispensaries 199,140 Distribution amongst the poor 383,029 Total 2,198,461 Educational Charities. It will be seen from the preced- Educa- ing statement that about one-third of the total annual tional income of endowed charities of England and Wales is for charities, purposes of education. The sum probably represents but a fraction of the actual amount devoted to education, since the majority of the institutions promoting it depend either wholly or in part upon voluntary contributions, and very few of them are largely endowed. Among the more im portant charities for educational purposes are the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, founded in 1698, the income of which in 1876 was 52,851, including legacies of 16,000; the National Society, established in 1811 under which are 13,000 schools, which had an income of 26,931 in 1876; and Dulwich College, founded by Edward Alleyn in 1619, and reorganized by Act of Parliament iu 1858, which has an annual income of over 16,000. As before mentioned, the English universities and colleges, as well as the schools of Eton and Winchester, together with all cathedral foundations, are specially exempt from the control of the Charity Commissioners, and no account is therefore given in the annual reports of their revenues. Asylums a/id Almshouses. While one-third of the annual Asylums income of the endowed charities is for educational purposes, and alms- one-fourth is for the maintenance of asylums and alms- houses - Classifi cation of charities as to objects.