6 in the Rate. to pay Part of and other Buildings standing at the Corners of Streets crossing the Streets in which Rates are to be made under this Act, be it further enacted and declared, That it shall be lawful for the said Corner Houses Commissioners for executing this Act, and they are hereby to be included authorized and empowered, in laying and assessing the said respective Rates hereby authorized to be laid and assessed by them, to include in such Rates, and to rate the Corner or Return Houses, or other Buildings or Tenements standing and erected at the Corners or Angles of any Street, Square, Circus, Terrace, Court, Passage, or Way which shall cross or branch from any of the said Streets, Squares, Terraces, Passages, or Places, in or in respect of which such Rates or Assessments are to be made; and the cleansing of all such Corner or Return Houses, Buildings, or Tenements, shall be performed by the said Commissioners. XXIX. And Whereas several of the Houses, Buildings, and Commissioners Premises in the Streets, Squares, Terraces, Passages, and Places ' delineated, described, and coloured Blue on the said Map or ⚫ Plan marked No. 5., abut respectively in part on Streets, Ways, 'Courts, Passages, and Places now under the Jurisdiction, Control, and Management of the Committee for paving, cleansing, and lighting the Parish of Saint James, Westminster;' Be it further enacted, That the said Commissioners shall from time to time pay a proportionate Part of the several Rates and Assessments to be respectively laid and assessed by virtue of this Act on the said last-mentioned Houses, Buildings, and Premises, unto the said Committee, for or in respect of the paving, cleansing, and lighting such Parts of the several Streets, Ways, Courts, Passages, and Places upon which the said several last-mentioned Houses, Buildings, and Premises, or the Sides or other Parts thereof, abut, such proportionate Part to be from time to time fixed by the said Commissioners. XXX. And be it further enacted, That so much of the said recited Act of the Fifth Year of the Reign of His present Majesty as provides for and regulates the Rates or Assessments to be made upon such of the Houses and other Buildings mentioned in the said recited Act as shall at the Time of making such Rates or Assessments be empty or unoccupied, and the Amount of Rates or Assessments to be charged upon Premises which shall after the making of such Rates or Assessments become empty or unoccupied, and also the Payment of the said Rates or Assessments, and all Arrears due thereon, and also so much of the same Act as provides, that in all Cases where any Person shall remove from or quit any House, Building, or Tenement which shall be rated or assessed by virtue of the said Act, such Person shall be liable to pay such Rate or Assessment in proportion to the Time that he or she occupied the same, and that in all Cases where any Person shall come into or occupy any House, Building, or Tenement rated or assessed as aforesaid, out of or from which any other Person who shall have been rated or assessed for the same shall be removed, the Person coming into or occupying the same shall not be liable to pay any such Rate or Assessment in respect thereof, for a longer Period than Twelve Months prior to the Commencement of such incoming Tenant's Entrance on the Premises, shall be and the same are hereby repealed. XXXI. And the Rates for paving, &c. of abutting on the So much of Empty Houses to be charged with Half Rates. Powers of recited Act relative to the Recovery of Rates shall extend to the Recovery of Half Rates. How Amount of Rates in respect of Cathedrals, Churches, &c. shall be ascertained. XXXI. And be it further enacted, That it shall be lawful for the said Commissioners for executing this Act to rate and assess the Houses and other Buildings by the said recited Act of the Fifth Year of the Reign of His present Majesty, and by this Act authorized to be rated and assessed, to the full Amounts by the said recited Act and this Act respectively authorized, although the Houses and other Buildings, or some of them, shall at the Time of making such Rates or Assessments be empty or unoccupied; but the Half only of such full Rates or Assessments shall be payable in respect of such of the said Houses and other Buildings as shall be or shall become empty or unoccupied, for such Time as the same respectively shall remain empty or unoccupied; and then and in every such Case such Half of the said full Rates or Assessments, and all Arrears of such Half of the said full Rates or Assessments, computed from the Time such Houses or other Buildings respectively became empty and unoccupied, shall be paid by the Person or Persons for the Time being entitled to such Houses or other Buildings, or by the first or any other Tenant or Occupier thereof; and such Tenant or Tenants, Occupier or Occupiers, shall and may and is and are hereby authorized to deduct and retain the same out of his, her, or their Rent or Rents respectively; and the Person or Persons for the Time being entitled to the Rent of such Houses or other Buildings, immediately payable by the Occupier or Occupiers thereof, is and are hereby required to allow such Deduction, upon Receipt of the Residue of his, her, or their respective Rent or Rents; and the said Tenant or Tenants, Occupier or Occupiers, shall be and is and are hereby acquitted and discharged of and from so much of his, her, or their Rent as the Payments by him, her, or them in that respect shall amount to. XXXII. Provided always, and be it further enacted, That the several Powers and Provisions contained in the said recited Act of the Fifth Year of the Reign of His present Majesty, and not hereby repealed, relative to the Rates and Assessments by that Act authorized to be laid and assessed, and to the Recovery thereof, and of the Arrears thereof, shall, so far as the same are applicable, extend and the same are hereby extended to the Half of such Rates or Assessments, and to the Recovery thereof and of all Arrears thereof, in all Cases in which such Half shall be charged and payable under or by virtue of this Act. XXXIII. Provided also, and be it further enacted, That the respective Rates or Assessments to be laid and assessed by the said Commissioners under or by virtue of this Act, upon or in respect of any Cathedral, Collegiate, or other Church, Chapel, Place of Religious Worship, Hospital, Public School, or other Public Building, or any Wall or void Space of Ground, instead of being ascertained according to the yearly Value thereof, shall be ascertained according to the Number of Square Yards of Pavement or Ground belonging to such Cathedral, Collegiate, or other Church, Chapel, Place of Worship, Hospital, Public School, or other Public Building, Wall, or void Space of Ground, measuring the same from such Cathedral, Collegiate, or other Church, Chapel, Place of Worship, Hospital, School, Building, Wall, or void Space of Ground, to the Middle of the Street, Square, or Place Place on which the same shall respectively abut; and in making the said Rates and Assessments hereby authorized to be made, the said Commissioners for executing this Act shall determine what Sum shall be assessed in respect of each Square Yard of Pavement or Ground belonging to such Cathedral, Collegiate, or other Churches, Chapels, Places of Worship, Hospitals, Public Schools, or other Public Buildings, Walls, and void Spaces of Ground, such Sums not exceeding in the whole in any one Year the Sums hereinbefore mentioned; and the Rates or Assessments to be laid and assessed upon or in respect of any Cathedral or Collegiate Church shall be paid by the Dean and Chapter thereof; and the Rates or Assessments to be laid and assessed upon or in respect of any other Church, or any Chapel, Place of Worship, Hospital, School, or other Public Building, Wall, or void Space of Ground, shall be paid by the Churchwardens, Chapelwardens, Trustees, or Owners or Proprietors thereof respectively; but so nevertheless, that no such Rate or Assessment shall, by virtue of this Act, be laid or assessed upon or in respect of any Wall or void Space of Ground, unless the same shall abut upon or front some Street or Place to be paved or repaired, cleansed, lighted, or watched by the Commissioners for executing this Act. XXXIV. Provided also, and be it further enacted, That in all Cases where any Person or Persons shall remove from or quit any House or other Building rated or assessed by the said Commissioners, by virtue of this Act or of the said recited Act of the Fifth Year of the Reign of His present Majesty, which shall be immediately afterwards occupied by some other Person or Persons, such Person or Persons so removing as aforesaid shall be liable to pay the Rates and Assessments so made upon the said House or other Building, in proportion to the Time that he, she, or they occupied the same, in the same Manner as if he, she, or they had remained in the Possession or Occupation of the same; and that any Person or Persons coming into or occupying any House or other Building rated and assessed by virtue of this Act or of the said recited Act, shall be liable to pay the Rates and Assessments so made upon the said House or other Building, in proportion to the Time that he, she, or they shall occupy the same, in the same Manner as if he, she, or they had been the Occupier or Occupiers thereof at the Time when the same was so rated and assessed as aforesaid, and shall also be liable to pay all Arrears of any Rates and Assessments which shall not be recovered from the last or any other Person or Persons so removing as aforesaid, and which shall have accrued within Six Calendar Months next preceding the Time when such Person or Persons so coming into or occupying any House or other Building as aforesaid shall come into or commence to occupy the same, but not any Arrears which shall have accrued more than Six Calendar Months previously to such Occupation: Provided always, that nothing hereinbefore contained shall extend or be construed or taken to extend to exempt any Tenant or Occupier of any House or other Building liable to be rated by virtue of this Act or of the said recited Act, who, under and by virtue of the Provision hereinbefore contained, shall be liable to be charged with and to pay all Arrears of the Half of any Rates and Assessments made in respect of Recovery of Rates from Out-going and Application of Power to to borrow of any of the said Houses or other Buildings which may be or become empty or unoccupied as aforesaid, from Payment of all such Arrears, whether the same shall have accrued within Six Calendar Months previously to his or their Occupation of such House or Building, or not. XXXV. And be it further enacted, That the Monies to be collected and received by the said Commissioners for executing this Act, from the Rates or Assessments hereinbefore directed to be laid and assessed by them for defraying the Expences of paving or forming, and repairing, cleansing, lighting, and watering, the several Streets and Places (except the said Westminster Mews) by the said recited Acts of the Fifth and Sixth Years of the Reign of His present Majesty and by this Act respectively directed to be paved or formed, and repaired, cleansed, lighted, and watered, by the said Commissioners, and for the Purpose of other Payments, shall be applied by the said Commissioners, in the first place, in paying and discharging the Expences attending the obtaining and passing of this Act, in the next place, in paying from time to time the Interest of all Principal Monies which have been already borrowed under the said recited Acts of the Fifth and Sixth Years of the Reign of His present Majesty, or either of them, or under Two Acts of the Fifty-third and Fifty-sixth Years of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the Third, recited in the said Act of the Fifth Year of the Reign of His present Majesty, or either of them, or which may hereafter be borrowed under the Powers of this Act, and, subject thereto, in defraying the Expences of paving or forming, and repairing, cleansing, lighting, and watering, the several Streets and Places (except the said Westminster Mews) by the said recited Acts of the Fifth and Sixth Years aforesaid, and by this Act, respectively directed or authorized to be paved or formed, and repaired, cleansed, lighted, and watered, by the said Commissioners, and in paying off the said Principal Monies already borrowed or hereafter to be borrowed as aforesaid. XXXVI. And be it further enacted, That it shall be lawful for Commissioners the said Commissioners for executing this Act to borrow or raise any Sum or Sums of Money, on the Credit of the said last-men- . tioned Rates or Assessments, for any of the Purposes to which the Monies to arise from the said last-mentioned Rates and Assessments are hereby made applicable; and all the Powers and Provisions contained in the said recited Act of the Fifth Year of the Reign of His present Majesty, with reference to the borrowing or raising of Money by the said Commissioners on the Credit of the Rates and Assessments to be collected by them under the Authority of that Act, and to the Transfer of the Securities for the same, except so far as the same are hereby altered or repealed, shall be and the same are hereby extended and made applicable to the borrowing and raising of Money by the said Commissioners on the Credit of the said Rates and Assessments on the Credit of which they are hereby authorized to borrow or raise Money, and to the Transfer of the Securities for the same, as fully and effectually, to all Intents and Purposes, as if the said Powers and Provisions had been severally hereby repeated and re-enacted with reference thereto. XXXVII. Pro XXXVII. Provided always, and be it further enacted, That but not to any the said Commissioners shall not borrow or raise, under the Autho- greater Amount rity of this Act, any greater Sum in the whole than the Sum of than 50,000l. Fifty thousand Pounds. XXXVIII. And be it further enacted, That the said Commis- Accounts to be sioners for executing this Act shall, at the Time of making out made up. the annual Accounts to be made out in pursuance of the said firstrecited Act, cause a like Account of the Monies received and disbursed in the preceding Year, and the Amount of the Arrears of Rates then due under the Authority of this Act, and of the Balances of Cash then in their Hands, arising from the Rates to be assessed under this Act, to be made out; which Account it shall be lawful for all Persons rated or assessed by the said Commissioners, under and by virtue of this Act, to the Rates or Assessments aforesaid, and all Persons interested therein, at all seasonable Times to inspect. Terrace to be maintained by Commissioners. XXXIX. And be it further enacted, That the Expence of main- Lodges at taining and repairing the Lodge erected, or any Lodge or Lodges Richmond to be erected, under the Authority of the said recited Act of the Fifth Year of the Reign of His present Majesty, at the Entrance to Richmond Terrace, shall be defrayed, and all Rates and Taxes payable in respect of such Lodges shall be paid, by the said Commissioners for executing this Act, out of the Monies to arise from the Rates to be made under the said Act, for supporting and keeping in order the Gardens and Terraces at the same Terrace. XL. And Whereas it is expedient that Porticoes, Arcades, • Colonnades, or other covered Ways, should be allowed to extend over the Footways of some of the said Streets, Squares, • Terraces, Passages, Roads, and Places within the Limits of this Act and of the said recited Act of the Sixth Year of the Reign ⚫ of His present Majesty, and that Bow Windows, Shop Windows, Alcoves, Balconies, and other ornamental Projections should be allowed to be advanced to the Fronts of Areas; provided such Porticoes, Arcades, Colonnades, or other covered Ways, Bow Windows, Shop Windows, Alcoves, Balconies, and other orna• mental Projections, be made of Brick, Stone, Metal, or other 'incombustible Materials:' Be it therefore further enacted, That it shall and may be lawful for the said Commissioners for executing this Act to authorize and permit the continuing, and the building or erecting and making, of any Porticoes, Arcades, Colonnades, and other covered Ways, projecting from any Buildings or Houses which shall or may be built in or on any of the Streets, Squares, Terraces, Passages, Roads, and Places, and Parts of Streets and Places, by the said recited Act of the Sixth Year aforesaid, or by this Act, placed under the Jurisdiction of the said Commissioners, extending over any Footways of the said Streets, Squares, Terraces, Passages, Roads, and Places; provided the same do not obstruct or incommode the Foot Passengers, and that the Footways under the same be at least Nine Feet broad in the clear between the Columns, Piers, or other Supports of such Porticoes, Arcades, Colonnades, or other covered Ways, and the Railing of the Areas of the Houses or other Buildings before or at the Sides of which the same are placed; and provided such Colonnades, Arcades, Porticoes, and covered Ways be built of Brick, Stone, or Porticoes and |