The rateable value increased from f 709,000 in 1901 to £2,400,000 in 1905.
It was provided that where more than zo% of the population of a county lived in electoral divisions of which the total rateable value, when divided by the number of the population, gave a sum of less than LI, Ios.
Although the area is comparatively small the rateable value is enormous.
But for certain purposes these boroughs are part of the county and rateable to county rate, e.g.