A Handy Book of the Land, Assessed, and Income Tax Laws: Expressly Prepared for the Use of Magistrates, Clergymen, Commissioners, and Clerks to Commissioners of Taxes ...

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Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, and Green, 1864 - 415 pages
 

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Page 256 - Treasury" shall mean and include the commissioners of Her Majesty's treasury of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, or any three or more of them, or the Lord High Treasurer of the said United Kingdom for the time being; the term "affidavit
Page 141 - ... money wholly and exclusively laid out or expended for the purposes of such trade, manufacture, adventure, or concern, or of such profession, employment, or vocation...
Page 129 - ... under the penalty herein contained ; and the tenant paying the said assessment shall be acquitted and discharged of so much money as if the same had actually been paid unto the person to or for whom his rent shall have been due and payable...
Page 178 - ... or surveyor, it shall be lawful for the said commissioners, and they are hereby required in every such case, according to the best of their judgment, to settle and ascertain in what sums such person ought to be charged, and to make an assessment accordingly, which assessment shall be final and conclusive.
Page 122 - The stock or dividends of any corporation, fraternity, or society of persons, or of any trust established for charitable purposes only, or which...
Page 257 - MOST GRACIOUS SOVEREIGN, WE, Your Majesty's most dutiful and loyal subjects the Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland in Parliament assembled, towards raising the necessary supplies to defray Your Majesty's public expenses, and making an addition to the public revenue, have freely and voluntarily resolved to give and grant unto Your Majesty the several duties herein-after mentioned; and do therefore most humbly beseech Your Majesty that it may be enacted, and be it enacted...
Page 255 - ... unless it be otherwise specially provided, or there be something in the subject or context repugnant to such construction.
Page 8 - Duties hereby granted and otherwise relating thereto, so far as the same shall not be superseded by and shall be consistent with the express Provisions of this Act, as fully and effectually to all Intents and Purposes as if the same had been herein repeated and specially enacted with reference to the said Duties hereby granted.
Page 244 - Form of oath or affirmation to be taken by assessors as aforesaid. Assessors " T AB do swear [or affirm] that in the execution Oa • « J_ O f an Act passed in the year of the " reign of Queen Victoria, intituled an Act [here *' set forth the title of this Act...
Page 235 - ... every person so offending, being thereof lawfully convicted, shall be adjudged guilty of felony, and shall suffer death, as in cases of felony without benefit of clergy ;

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