County rate. Returns from each court of quarter sessions in the counties of England and Wales, showing whether the county rate basis committees, appointed under 15 & 16 Vict. c. 81, have been appointed as standing committees, or for one valuation only, or annually; whether the county rate basis has been revised at stated periods or occasionally at the discretion of the committee or the court of quarter sessions; on what principle the valuations have been made; and how the valuers have been paid; &c [electronic resource].