The Law of Parochial Assessments, Explained in a Practical Commentary on the Statute 6 & 7 Will. 4, Cap. 96: With an Appendix Containing the Union Assessment Committee Acts, 1862 & 1864; the Valuation (metropolis) Act, 1869; the Poor Rate Assessment and Collection Act, 1869; and the Rating Act, 1874

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Shaw & Sons, 1882 - Local taxation - 342 pages

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Page 18 - ... the rent at which the same might reasonably be expected to let from year to year, free of all usual tenants' rates and taxes, and tithe commutation rent-charge, if any, and deducting therefrom the probable average annual cost of the repairs, insurance, and other expenses, if any, necessary to maintain them in a state to command such rent...
Page 221 - Peace which shall first happen, and to abide the Order of and pay such Costs as shall be awarded by the Justices at such Quarter Sessions, or any Adjournment thereof...
Page 22 - Hereditaments rated thereunto; that is to say, of the Rent at which the same might reasonably be expected to let from year to year, free of all usual Tenant's Rates and Taxes, and Tithe Commutation Rent-charge, if any, and deducting therefrom the probable average annual cost of the repairs, insurance, and other expenses, if any, necessary to maintain them in a state to command such Rent...
Page 306 - Any notice, order, requisition, summons, and document under this Act may be in writing or print, or partly in writing and partly in print.
Page 323 - ... (2.) Where any right of sporting, when severed from the occupation of the land, is let, either the owner or the lessee thereof, according as the persons making the rate determine, may be rated as the occupier thereof.
Page 1 - ... no rate for the relief of the poor in England and Wales shall be allowed by any justices, or be of any force, which shall not be made upon an estimate of the net annual value of the several hereditamc-nts rated thereunto (that is to say, of the rent at which the same might reasonably be expected to let from year to year, free of all usual tenants...
Page 307 - ... deemed to have been served and received respectively at the time when the letter containing the same would be delivered in. the ordinary course of post ; and in proving such service or sending, it shall be sufficient to prove that the letter containing the notice was properly addressed and put into the post.
Page 91 - December or some other convenient Day in each Year, under the several distinct Heads of Receipt and Expenditure, with a Statement of the Balance of such Account, duly audited and certified by the Directors or some of them, and by the Auditors...
Page 135 - ... and also to raise weekly or otherwise, by taxation of every inhabitant and every occupier of lands in the said parish in such competent sum and sums of money as they shall think fit, a convenient stock of flax, hemp, wool, thread, iron and other necessary ware and stuff to set the poor on work, and also competent sums of money for and towards the necessary relief of the lame, impotent, old, blind and such other among them being poor and not able to work...
Page 261 - ... every payment of a rate by the occupier, notwithstanding the amount thereof may be deducted from his rent as herein provided, and every payment of a rate by the owner, whether he is himself rated instead of the occupier, or has agreed with the occupier or with the overseers to pay such rate, and notwithstanding any allowance or deduction which the overseers are empowered to make from the rate...

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