A Treatise on the Valuation of Property for the Poor's Rate: Showing the Method of Rating Lands, Buildings, Tithes, Mines, Woods, River and Canal Tolls, and Personal Property; with an Abstract of the Poor Laws Relating to Rates and Appeals |
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Page 6 - ... 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 6 - And also to raise weekly or otherwise (by Taxation of every Inhabitant, Parson, Vicar and other, and of every Occupier of Lands, Houses, Tithes impropriate, Propriations of Tithes, Coal-Mines, or saleable Underwoods 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...
Page 13 - By a later Act, the 17 Geo. 2, c. 38, s. 4, it is enacted: " That in case any person or persons shall find him, her, or themselves aggrieved by any rate or assessment made for the relief of the poor, or shall have any material objection to any person or persons being put on or left out of such rate or assessment, or to the sum charged on any person or persons therein, or shall have any material objection to...
Page 14 - ... and required to receive such appeal, and to hear and finally determine the same; but if it shall appear to the said justices, that reasonable notice was not given, then they shall adjourn the said appeal to the next quarter sessions...
Page 201 - C.2. makes rateable, the occupier of saleable underwoods is one ; and the question is, whether they can be deemed saleable underwoods, except in the year in which they are cut down. The word saleable has not a very precise definite meaning ; it may mean when they are in a fit state for sale, referring to the time when they are cut ; or it may mean such as are intended or destined for sale, in contradistinction to such as are to supply the land with estovers for fuel, and the other purposes of the...
Page 222 - ... not only upon every inhabitant, but upon all stocks and estates. Lands, houses, and tithes are all rateable, according to the general principles of rating, whether the occupier be resident or not ; and it is impossible upon this act to say, that lands within the town shall be rated, but that stocks and personalty within the town shall not. The stocks and personalty are not rateable elsewhere, they have all the benefit of the town, and there can be no reason, therefore, why, when there are words...
Page 226 - ... only will leave part of the rateable proportion of 8900/. free from rate. The allowance must be so made, that the sum upon which the annual rates are made, may, with the amount of the rates, make up the 8900/. This sum, according to the present rate, will be 7120/., and the sum to be paid by the company will be 1780/.
Page 21 - ... to appeal to the next general or quarter sessions of the peace for the county or precinct where such assessment was made, and the justices there are hereby required to hear and finally determine the same.
Page 100 - The principle to be collected from all the cases on the subject is, that if the party rated have the use of the building or other subject of the rate as a mere servant of the Crown, or of any public body, or in any other respect for the mere exercise of public duty therein, and have no beneficial occupation of or emolument resulting from it in any personal and private respect, then he is not rateable.
Page 13 - ... or any part thereof, or shall find him, her, or themselves aggrieved by any neglect, act, or thing done or omitted by the churchwardens and overseers of the poor, or by any of His Majesty's justice!