Church rates. Abstract of return to an address of the Honourable the House of Commons, dated 10 August 1854;--for, a "return of all monies received and expended by churchwardens and chapelwardens in England and Wales, from Easter 1853 to Easter 1854; distinguishing the sums received by them from church rates, from other sources of official receipt applicable in aid or in lieu of church rates; and distinguishing from other kinds of expenditure defrayed by them, all expenses incurred in building, improving, and maintaining in repair churches or chapels, and any buildings or fences appertaining thereto; also stating, with respect to parishes or places where no church rate has been made, whether opposition has been the cause thereof; also, an account of any sum or sums of money borrowed under the provisions of any act of Parliament on the security of church rates (in a similar form to Parliamentary Paper, no. 562, of session 1839)." (So far as the same have been received at the Home Office.) [electronic resource].