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 DEFENCE

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England and Wales

Scotland

Ireland

£

£

£

Rates .....

35,898,774

3,658,063

1 3,040,558

"Water, Gas, and Electric light

7,952,980

1,897,281

Repayments ....

1,017,043

—

—

Tolls, Dues, &c. .

5,302,839

1,199,418

476,427

Rents, interest &o.

2,108,749

629,005

113,228

Sales

527,635

38,768

—

Government contributions

9,409,561

1,648,340

406,668

Loans

11,053,931

1,897,144

709,376

Miscellaneous

Total receipts

2,206,527

321,548

267,829

75,474,039

11,289,547

5,014,088

The chief branches of local expenditure were

—

Eng.& Wales

Scotland

Ireland

By Town and Municipal Authorities for

Police, Sanitary Works, &c. . By Unions and Parishes for Poor Relief By School Boards .... By County, Rural Sanitary, and Road

Authorities

By Harbour Authorities

Total (including other expenditure)

£

40.019,001

10,215,974

9,426,472

8,339,436 3,454,089

£ 5,522,779 1,013,376" 2,153,439

1,349,847 1,200,035

£

1,527,211 1,053,391

1,472,282 482,807

76,104,066

11,516,118

5,093,658

The estimated expenditure of the London County Council for the year ending March 31, 1899, was: maintenance, 3,719, 998Z. (including 89, 332Z. on tramways, working-class dwellings, &c., out of rents) ; capital, 6,009,375Z. (including 2,352,500^. loans to local authorities). The amount of the con- solidated stock of the Council March 31, 1898, was returned at 38,011,638Z.

Defence. I. Army.

Tlie maintenance or a standing army in time of peace, without the consent of Parliament, is prohil)ited by the Bill of Rights of 1689. From that time to the present, the luimber of troops as well as the cost of the diflferont branches of the service in detail, lias been sanctioned by an annual vote of the House of Commons. Parliament exercises another important means of control over the army — viz., by passing at the commencement of every session an Act called the * Army (Annual) Bill,' investing the Crown with large powers to make regulations for the good government of the army, and to frame the Articles of War, which form the military code.

The Secretary of State for War, who is assisted by Under-Secretaries of State, exercises administrative control over all army services, and the heads of the principal departments, both military and civil, are responsible to him for the discharge of their duties. The principal military departments are those of the Commander-in-Chief, the Adjutant-General, the Quarter-Master-General,