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              <lb/>Town Sery &amp; Rent Collections Report   2<hi rend="superscript">nd</hi> May 1916.   M<hi rend="superscript">r</hi> Chairman &amp; Gentlemen   I beg to report that I have <lb/>collected rents for the past month to the amount <lb/>of ÃÂ£36.10.1 which I lodged as follows â Rent <lb/>ÃÂ£30.11.9 and rates ÃÂ£5.18.4 to credit of Rate a/c  The Lamps were lighted from the 1<hi rend="superscript">st</hi> to the 8<hi rend="superscript">th</hi>. <lb/>There were seven lamps out on the Battery Road <lb/>on the 20<hi rend="superscript">th</hi> and 21<hi rend="superscript">st</hi> and the rest lighted from the <lb/>18<hi rend="superscript">th</hi> to the 22<hi rend="superscript">nd</hi> â on the 22<hi rend="superscript">nd</hi> 31 lamps were <lb/>not lighted on the 27<hi rend="superscript">th</hi>. 28<hi rend="superscript">th</hi>. &amp; 29<hi rend="superscript">th</hi> there were three <lb/>lamps out. <seg type="closer"> Your obdt. Servt.  John Nevin </seg> 
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