ment the annual value of the property in such several parts shall be estimated according to the estimate or basis on which the county rate is assessed (d), or, where there is no such county rate, according to a like estimate.] (e)

metropolitan

authorized

inspect rates

part of

within the

CLXXI. The clerk of the said metropolitan board, or Power to any person authorized by the said board in this behalf, board or may from time to time inspect any rate made or to be any one made for any county any part of which is within the by them, to metropolis; and any basis or standard for the county made for rate of any such county, and any returns concerning all county or or any of the parishes or places, whether parochial or county extra-parochial, in the metropolis, delivered or to be metropolis. delivered in pursuance of any Act relating to county (ƒ) rates, and any rate made by the commissioners of sewers of the city of London, and any valuation on which the same is made, and may take copies or extracts from any such rates, basis or standard, returns or valuation, without payment of any fee or reward; and if any person having the custody of any such rate, basis or standard, return or valuation, wilfully neglect or refuse to permit any such clerk or person authorized as aforesaid to inspect the same, or to take copies or extracts of

(d) See 15 & 16 Vict. c. 81.

(e) This means a like estimate to that provided by the 15 & 16 Vict. c. 81, ss. 2 & 6, which is according to the full and fair annual value of the property rateable to the relief of the poor in every parish, &c. Where there is no county rate, as in the city of London, the liberty of the Tower, and other places, it is necessary to resort to other rates, namely, the sewers and consolidated rates under the City Sewers Act, the Tower liberty rate, and the metropolitan police rate, which are all founded upon a similar estimate to that which forms the basis of the county rate.

(f) By s. 17 of 21 & 22 Vict. c. 104, post, the metropolitan board may require to be furnished with copies of accounts, and the power to demand copies of poor and other rates, &c., is given to the board as well as to vestries and district boards by s. 15 of 25 & 26 Vict. c. 102, post.

Payment to

be obtained

from the

parishes by

precepts to the charberlain of

the city and

to vestries

and district boards (a).

or from the same, at all reasonable times, he shall forfeit for every such offence any sum not exceeding ten pounds.

CLXXII. For obtaining payment of the sums so assessed upon the city of London and the parishes mencity and from tioned in schedules (A.) and (B.) to this Act, the said board shall issue precepts under their seal, requiring payment thereof to their treasurer, or into any bank therein mentioned, within such time as may be therein limited, and every such precept for any sum assessed upon the city of London shall be directed to the chamberlain of the said city; and every such precept for any sum assessed upon any parish mentioned in schedule (A.) to this Act shall be directed to the vestry thereof; and every such precept for any sum assessed upon any district mentioned in schedule (B.) to this Act, or any parish comprised therein, shall be directed to the board of works for such district; and where any such sum is assessed upon any part of any parish or district, the said metropolitan board shall specify in their precept the part of such parish or district upon which such sum is assessed.

Payment of sums assessed upon the

city.

CLXXIII. The chamberlain of the city of London shall, out of any monies in the chamber of the said city, pay to the treasurer of the metropolitan board of works, or otherwise as they may direct, the sums required by their precepts, within such time as may be therein mentioned; and all payments so made by the said chamberlain shall be charged by him against and reimbursed to him out of any rates which the commissioners of sewers of the city of London are authorized to direct to be made under any Act (b) relating to the sewerage of the

(a) By the 25 & 26 Vict. c. 102, s. 13, post, assessments and precepts may be amended.

(b) The rates made by the commissioners of sewers of the city of London are made under the 11 & 12 Vict. c. 163,

said city; and such commissioners shall have full power to raise every such sum by any such rate which they may be authorized to direct to be made as aforesaid, or by any addition thereto.

vestries and

boards of

sums as

CLXXIV. All sums which any vestry or district board Payment by may be required to pay by such precepts as aforesaid district shall be paid by such vestry and board respectively within such time as may be therein mentioned, and shall sessed by metropolitan be raised (d) in like manner as if the same were required board. by the said vestry or board for defraying the expenses of such vestry or board in the execution of their powers and duties under this Act in relation to the sewerage of their parish or district.

assessing and

in places

no poor

CLXXV. The sums which may be assessed from time Provision for to time upon any place mentioned in schedule (C.) to levying rates this Act, or such part thereof as may not be comprised where there within any parish, or the city of London, shall be raised is by means of a rate to be made and levied as herein provided; that is to say, the said metropolitan board shall from time to time, by warrant under their seal, appoint

(continued by the 14 & 15 Vict. c. 91,) s. 168, et seq. They are applicable to the purposes of constructing, altering, repairing and cleansing the sewers of the city. These must now mean sewers other than those enumerated in schedule (D.) to this Act.

(d) See sect. 9 of 25 & 26 Vict. c. 102, post, authorizing vestries and district boards to pay precepts out of monies in their possession, and sect. 10 making it lawful for vestries to include in sewers rates sums they may consider necessary to meet precepts received or to be received, and to make separate rates for metropolis main drainage to meet precepts received or to be received.

(e) This and the following sections, down to sect. 179 inclusive, are virtually repealed by the 12th section of the 25 & 26 Vict. c. 102, providing for the assessments on these places, and the issuing of precepts to the bodies having control or authority in them. See the 20 Vict. c. 19, declaring that extra-parochial places shall be deemed parishes for the purposes of the poor and other rates.

rate (e).

Mode of making the assessment.

of

a proper person to be an assessor, for the purpose assessing the full and fair annual value of all property in every such place, or such part thereof as aforesaid, which, if the same were not extra-parochial, would be liable to be rated to the relief of the poor, and rating the same to a rate to be levied under this Act; and such assessor shall, within forty days after the delivery to him of the warrant of his appointment, make, sign, and return to the said board an assessment for the place named in such warrant; and the assessment shall be fairly written in a book, and shall specify, in different columns, the names of the respective inhabitants or occupiers of all messuages, lands, tenements, and hereditaments, the full and fair annual value of the same, and the amount of rate charged on the inhabitants or occupiers thereof, and when the premises are unoccupied, the full and Allowance to fair annual value thereof to let; and every such assessor shall be allowed for his trouble and expenses such remuneration as the said board may think fit; and the same shall be paid out of the amount of the rate which shall be collected after such assessment; and the said rate to be levied as aforesaid shall, for the purposes of the provisions of this Act relating to exemption from and reduction or allowance in respect of sewers rate, and relating to deduction and repayment of sums paid on account of sewers rate, be deemed a sewers rate.

assessors.

Places in

schedule (C.)

not now

for sewers

not to be

CLXXVI. Provided always, that the places mentioned in schedule (C.) to this Act which are not now under under rating rating for sewers shall not be liable to be rated under this Act, except for the purpose of their contributing to rated except the expense of carrying into effect any plan for preing sewers. venting the sewage of the metropolis from flowing into the river Thames in or near the metropolis, so far as such places respectively shall be benefited.

for intercept

When assessment is

CLXXVII. When such assessment has been allowed by the said board, public notice of such assessment, and thereof to be of the place where the same may be inspected, shall be

made, notice

persons in

assessment to

&c.

given by fixing such notice on the door of the church or given, and all chapel or some other conspicuous part of the place to cluded in the which such assessment relates, upon the Sunday next have liberty or next but one after the same has been so allowed; and to inspect it, any person in whose custody such assessment may be shall permit every inhabitant or owner or occupier of property included in such assessment to inspect the same, and to make any extracts therefrom, without payment of any fee or reward; and if such person wilfully Penalty for neglect or refuse to permit any such inhabitant, owner, spection. or occupier to inspect such assessment or to make any extract therefrom, he shall, on conviction thereof before any two justices of the peace, forfeit for every such offence such sum, not exceeding 57., as the justices think

meet.

refusing in

rate charged

in such as

sessment.

CLXXVIII. The said board shall from time to time As to the colnominate one or more person or persons for levying the lection of the amount of rate charged in every such assessment, who shall proceed in the same manner, and shall have the same powers, remedies, and privileges, and be subject to the same regulations and penalties, with reference to the levying of such rate, as if he or they were an overseer or overseers of the poor in a place rated to the relief of the poor, and shall pay over the amount of such rate to the treasurer of the said board or otherwise as the said board may direct, or in default thereof shall be proeeeded against in the same manner as overseers are by this Act to be proceeded against for nonpayment.

against

assessment.

CLXXIX. Provided always, that if any person who Appeal has paid the amount of rate charged upon him by the assessment made by an assessor appointed under this Act think himself aggrieved by such assessment, on the ground that such assessment includes property for which he is not rateable under this Act, or that it assesses his rateable property beyond its full and fair annual value, or that any person is omitted out of such assessment, or that the property of any person is assessed below its full