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* It is important for the Public Service, and for the Interest of the Deserter, that this Part of the Return should be accurately filled up, and the Details should be inserted by the Magistrate in his own Handwriting, or, under his Direction, by his Clerk.

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CAP. VII.

14 & 15 Viet.

c. 16.

An Act for extending the Time limited for putting into
execution the Act of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth
Years of Her present Majesty, for the better Manage-
ment and Control of Highways in South Wales.
[12th May 1854.]

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WHEREAS by an Act passed in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Years of the Reign of Her present Majesty, 'intituled An Act for the better Management and Control of the Highways in South Wales, it was enacted that the County Roads Board of each County in South Wales, constituted as 'therein recited, should, at their First General Meeting after the passing of the said Act, or at some Adjournment thereof, ⚫ proceed to divide the County into so many Districts for the 'separate Management of the several Highways therein as should in their Judgment be most convenient, in manner therein provided, and that such Board should make an Order for the • Formation of such Districts, and should cause such Order, together with a Description or Statement of the Boundaries of such Districts, to be published, as therein mentioned, One • Month at least before the Twenty-fifth Day of March then next: And whereas it is expedient to enlarge the Time for carrying the said Act into execution as to some of the said Counties: Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, That the County Roads Board of each County in South Wales in which the said recited Act has not already been put in execution shall at first Meeting at their First General Annual Meeting after the passing of this Act, or at some Adjournment thereof, proceed in manner in the said recited Act provided to divide the County into so many Districts for the separate Management of the several Highways therein respectively as shall in their Judgment be most convenient; and that the said Board shall make an Order for the Formation of such Districts, and shall cause such Order, together with a Description or Statement of the Boundaries of such Districts, or of the Parishes comprised therein respectively, to be published by Advertisement in One or more of the Newspapers circulating in their County One Month at least before the Twenty-fifth Day of March One thousand eight hundred and fifty-five; and thereupon all such Proceedings as were required or authorized by the said recited Act after the Publication of such Notice as is therein required shall be had and take place as if the Time hereby authorized for the making of the said Order and the Publication thereof, with such Description or Statement of the Boundaries as aforesaid, had been inserted in the said recited Act; and that all the Powers and Provisions, Matters and Things, contained in the said recited Act, shall, so far as

County Roads

Boards shall,

after passing of this Act, pro

ceed to put recited Act

into execution.

the

the same are not varied by this Act, extend to this Act as fully and effectually as if the same had been expressly repeated and re-enacted in and by this Act. ·

CAP. VIII.

An Act further to amend an Act relating to the Valuation of rateable Property in Ireland. [12th May 1854.] WHEREAS an Act was passed in the Session holden in

c. 63.

the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Years of Her Majesty (Chapter Sixty-three), " to amend the Laws relating to the 15 & 16 Vict. • Valuation of rateable Property in Ireland," and such Act was 'amended by an Act of the last Session of Parliament, Chapter Seven: And whereas it is expedient further to amend the

7.

⚫ said Act of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Years of Her Majesty:' 16 & 17 Vict. Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, as follows:

tions 15. 29.
and 30. and

Part of Sec-
tion 25. of
15 & 16 Vict.
c. 63., repealed.

I. The said Act of the last Session of Parliament, and Sections 16 & 17 Vict. Fifteen, Twenty-nine, and Thirty of the firstly herein-before c. 7., and Secmentioned Act, and so much of Section Twenty-five of the same Act as enacts that on the Receipt by the Treasurer of any County of such final Lists as therein mentioned of any Barony or of the whole Number of Baronies in such County such Treasurer shall strike out from the Columns in such final Lists relating to Buildings the Valuations of each and every House in each Tenement and Townland the net annual Value of which House as therein stated shall not exceed Five Pounds, and shall deduct the Sum of such Valuations of Houses valued under Five Pounds and so struck out from the total Amount of the Valuation of such respective Tenement and Townland, and that the Valuation of each Tenement and Townland after such Deduction shall be deemed to be the Value thereof for the Purposes of County Assessments, shall be repealed.

shall distin

or used for

II. In making out the Lists or Tables of Valuation mentioned Commissioner in the said firstly herein-before mentioned Act, the Commissioner of Valuation of Valuation shall distinguish all Hereditaments and Tenements, guish all or Portions of the same, of a public Nature, or used for charitable Houses of a Purposes, or for the Purposes of Science, Literature, and the public Nature Fine Arts, as specified in an Act of the Sixth and Seventh charitable Years of Her Majesty, Chapter Thirty-six; and all such Here- Purposes ditaments or Tenements, or Portions of the same, so distinguished, which shall be shall, so long as they shall continue to be of a public Nature, Assessment. exempted from and occupied for the public Service, or used for the Purposes aforesaid, be deemed exempt from all Assessment, for the Relief of the destitute Poor in Ireland and for Grand Jury and County Half of the Rates: Provided always, that Half the annual Rent derived by Rent derived the Owner or other Person interested in any Tenements or by Owner, &c. Hereditaments so distinguished shall be included in such List in Valuation

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or Tables, so far as the same can or may be ascertained by the said Commissioner of Valuation.

III. Where the Assizes for any County next ensuing the Day on which any final Lists of Valuation mentioned in Section Twenty-six of the firstly herein-before mentioned Act shall be received by the Treasurer of such County happen to be the Spring Assizes, it shall be lawful for the Grand Jury of such County at such Assizes, if they so think fit, to direct that the Valuations contained in such final Lists shall, from and after the Commencement of such Assizes, be in force and be acted upon for the Purposes mentioned in the said Section as if such Assizes were the Summer Assizes next ensuing the Day of such Receipt of such final Lists respectively, and such Lists shall be so acted upon accordingly.

IV. And for the Purpose of providing for the necessary Revision of the Valuation of the rateable Tenements and Hereditaments the Limits whereof shall become altered, and also of rateable Tenements or Hereditaments the annual Value of which is liable to frequent Alteration, such as Fisheries, Railways, Canals, Tolls of Roads, Bridges, Mines, Gas and Water Works, and Buildings, be it enacted, That on the Fifteenth Day of November in each Year every Collector of Poor Rates within each Poor Law Union within which the Valuation of the rateable Hereditaments and Tenements has been or shall have been completed and shall be in operation shall make out and deliver to the Clerk of such Union, to be by him laid before the Board of Guardians of such Union, a List of all the Tenements or Hereditaments situate within every Townland in the said Union and within his District the Valuation of which Tenements shall require Revision for any of the Reasons aforesaid, or in respect of any Property the annual Value of which is liable to frequent Alteration as aforesaid; and if any such Collector shall fail or neglect to make out such List according to the best of his Ability, and deliver the same to the Clerk of the Union as aforesaid, within the Period aforesaid, he shall for every such Neglect or Default be liable to a Penalty not exceeding Five Pounds; and any Ratepayer within any Poor Law Union may within the same Period make out and deliver to the Clerk of the Union, to be by him laid before the Board of Guardians thereof, a List of any Tenements the Valuation of which shall in his Opinion require Revision; and the Clerk of each Poor Law Union shall for Ten Days after receiving any such List leave the same open for public Inspection at the Workhouse of such Union, and permit Extracts to be made therefrom, and shall on or before the Twenty-seventh Day of November in each Year make out a full and complete List of all Tenements and Property mentioned in such Lists delivered to him as aforesaid on or before the Fifteenth Day of the same Month, and transmit the List so made out by him to the Commissioner of Valuation, with the Opinion of the said Board of Guardians whether such Revision is necessary on account of such Changes or Alterations.

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V. On or before the First Day of Summer Assizes to be held Commissioner for any County next after the Receipt of such Lists for the shall cause a several Poor Law Unions in such County, the Commissioner of Revision to be Valuation shall cause a Revision to be made of the Valuation made of such Tenements, of the Tenements in the several Townlands and Parishes within and transmit a such County, or any Barony or Poor Law Union therein, and List to the appoint fit and proper Persons to revise the Valuation of the Guardians of Tenements so requiring Revision, and the Person making such and to the Revision shall have regard to the total Valuation of the Lands, Treasurer of independently of Buildings, within each respective Townland or the County, other Denomination, as finally decided on by the Commissioner &c. of Valuation, or by the Court at any General or Quarter Sessions of the Peace, under the Provisions of the firstly herein-before mentioned Act, and shall not increase or lessen such total Valuation, except in Cases in which a clerical Error shall have been discovered, when the same may be rectified; and as soon as the said Revision shall have been completed the Commissioner of Valuation shall make out and prepare a revised List or Lists of the Valuation of the rateable Hereditaments and Tenements within such County or any Barony thereof, or within such Poor Law Union, or a List of the Tenements, so revised as aforesaid, and shall sign the same, and transmit printed or written Copics of such List or Lists, so signed by him, in the Form set forth in the Schedule to the firstly herein-before mentioned Act annexed, to the Guardians of each Union, and to the Town Council of any Borough within which any Tenements contained in any such List are situate, and likewise to the Treasurer of the County; and the Clerk of such Union shall forthwith make every such List public by all and every the same Ways and Means as are directed by Section Twenty-eight of such Act concerning the Lists in such Section mentioned.

VI. The firstly herein-before mentioned Act and this Act 15 & 16 Vict. shall be construed together as One Act.

CAP. IX.

An Act to authorize the Inclosure of certain Lands in
pursuance of a Report of the Inclosure Commissioners
for England and Wales.
[12th May 1854.]
WHEREAS the Inclosure Commissioners for England and
Wales have, in pursuance of "The Acts for the Inclosure,
Exchange, and Improvement of Land," issued their Provisional
'Orders for and concerning the proposed Inclosures mentioned
in the Schedule to this Act, and have in their Ninth Annual
"General Report certified their Opinion that such Inclosures
'would be expedient; but the same cannot be proceeded with
'without the previous Authority of Parliament: Be it enacted
by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice
and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons,
in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of
the same, as follows:

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I. That

c. 63. and this Act to be as

One Act.

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