§ MR. CAUSTON (Southwark, W.)I beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for the Colonies whether he will state what is the annual expenditure of 36 the Board of Sanitary Commissioners of the City and County of Gibraltar, and from what sources and in what proportions is the income deriyed; and what is the rateable value of property, and what is the proportionate representation of the ratepayers on the Board as constituted under the Sanitary Order Amendment Order (Gibraltar), 1891, and how are the members elected?
§ BARON H. DE WORMSThe expenditure of the Sanitary Commissioners in 1890 was £28,031. Their income is derived from rates levied, sale of water, fees for use of baths; and the receipts from rates in 1890 were £10,649, and the receipts, from the sale of water average over £10,000 a year. Private ratepayers contribute rather less than two-fifths of the receipts from water, and two-thirds of the receipts from rates. The total rateable value is about £144,000. The private ratepayers are represented, on a Board of nine—by four members nominated by the Governor, one from the list of the Grand Jury, one from the list of special jurors, and two from the list of the common jurors.