THE SCHEDULE. (No. 1.) IN pursuance of an Act passed in the Queen VICTORIA, intituled, year of Her Majesty We, being the major part of the Examiners actually present at and conducting the examination of A. B. of, &c. do hereby certify, the said A. B. is duly and properly qualified to be taken as an Articled Clerk or Apprentice by of Solicitor [as the case may be] of the Court of an Attorney or Ireland. of, &c. We, being the major part of the Examiners actually present at and conducting the examination of A. B., , do hereby certify, that we have examined the said A. B., and we do certify that the said A. B. is fit and qualified to be admitted and enrolled an Attorney or Solicitor of the Court of in Ireland. I, A. B., do swear, that I will truly and honestly conduct and demean myself in the practice of an Attorney [or Solicitor, as the case may be] of in Ireland, according to the best of Majesty's Court of my knowledge, skill and ability. Taken and sworn before me this day of 18 } So help me GOD. To explain and amend an Act of the First and Second Year of King WILLIAM the Fourth, relating to Double Assessments of the Land Tax. [Note.-The Words printed in Italics are proposed to be inserted in the Committee.] 5 W 1 & 2 Will. 4, C. 21. HEREAS an Act was passed in the first and second year Preamble: of the reign of his late Majesty King WILLIAM the Fourth, intituled, "An Act to explain and amend two Acts of the thirty-fourth and thirty-eighth Years of his Majesty King GEORGE the Third, so far as the same relate to Double Assessments of the Land Tax :" And whereas doubts have arisen upon the construction of the said Acts, and upon the power of the Commissioners of the Land Tax, or of the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury, or the Commissioners of the Affairs of Taxes, to give relief without requiring the production 10 of the Assessments to the Double Land Tax of the Lands sought to be exonerated made in or previous to the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety-one, which production is now become in many cases impossible, in consequence of the Assessments to the Land Tax having been burnt, lost or destroyed, or not having been regularly preserved 15 by the several Clerks of the Peace or other public officers whose duty it has been to preserve the same, or from some other causes; and where such Assessments are still preserved it is difficult, and in many cases impossible, to identify the Parcels in the early Assessments with those of the present Assessments, in consequence of changes in their boundaries, names and designations: 1. Where Lands are charged with a double And whereas difficulties having arisen in obtaining relief under the said Act in consequence of such doubts, and it is expedient that such doubts and difficulties should be removed, and more ample powers given to the said Commissioners of Land Tax, or to the said Lords Commissioners of the Treasury, or to the said Commissioners for the Affairs of Taxes to grant such relief as was intended by the said recited Act of the first and second years of the reign of King WILLIAM the Fourth, chapter twenty-one; 5 Be it therefore Enacted, by The QUEEN's most Excellent MAJESTY, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords 10 Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, THAT from the passing of this Act in all cases where any manors, lands, tenements, rents, hereditaments or estates which shall have a proportion to raise sioners of the by virtue of an Act of the thirty-eighth year of the reign of his said 15 Majesty King GEORGE the Third, intituled, "An Act for making perpetual, subject to Redemption and Purchase in the manner therein a Rate, the Commis Land Tax shall, upon complaint, examine into the matter, of the truth thereof, certify the same to and if satisfied stated, the several Sums of Money now charged in Great Britain as a Land Tax for One Year, from the Twenty-fifth day of March One thousand seven hundred and Ninety-eight," shall be charged with a 20 the Treasury. Double Rate, which shall have been imposed under or by virtue or in consequence of any of the Acts imposing Double Rates on persons professing the Roman Catholic Religion, and refusing to take the oaths of allegiance and supremacy; and in all cases where such estates have not been made liable to Single Assessment only under 25 and by virtue of the Acts in that behalf made and provided, it shall be lawful for the Commissioners of the Land Tax for the respective counties, districts or divisions, where any such manors, lands, tenements, rents, hereditaments or estates are situate, upon complaint thereof before them being first made by or on behalf of the Owner or 30 Occupier of such manors, lands, tenements, rents, hereditaments or estates, to examine into the matter of such complaint, and upon proof made that the manors, lands, tenements, rents and other hereditaments sought to be exonerated are now charged with a Rate double, or nearly double, to that of other lands of the same value, adjacent or 35 in the neighbourhood and in the same county or division, and that the same were likewise charged with such double or nearly double Rates under and by virtue or in consequence of any of the Annual Land Tax Acts previous to the thirty-third year of his late Majesty King GEORGE the Third, in which Acts Double Assessments were imposed 40 upon persons professing the Roman Catholic religion and refusing to take the oaths of allegiance and supremacy, or upon such other proof as shall satisfy the said Commissioners of the truth of such complaint, they the said Commissioners, or any Two or more of them, are hereby required 5 required and empowered to certify in writing, under their hands, to the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland for the time being, the name of such owner or occupier, and the amount of the overcharge on such owner or occupier; and the certificate of the said Commissioners, attested by their Clerk, shall be transmitted to the Commissioners for the Affairs of Taxes, and shall be in the following Form : "We, the undersigned, being the Commissioners of Land Tax for the Form of 10 in the hundred of in the county of of do 15 20 25 hereby certify, That we have heard the complaint of touching the Assessment of the the just proportion which would have been charged on the said And if the said Commissioners of the Treasury, or the Commissioners for the Affairs of Taxes under their authority, have reason to doubt the truth of the said certificate, they shall be at liberty to inquire into the same, in the same manner as the Commissioners of the Land Tax for the county, district or division, wherein the lands sought to be exonerated are situate, are hereby directed to inquire; and if on such inquiry the truth of the certificate of the said Commissioners 30 of the Land Tax for the county, district or division shall appear, the said Commissioners of the Treasury, or, with their consent, the Commissioners for the Affairs of Taxes, or any Two or more of them, are hereby required and authorized, by warrant under the hands of any Two of the last-mentioned Commissioners, to empower the Commissioners of the district to which such certificate shall relate, to discharge, or cause to be discharged, such sum or sums of money so certified as aforesaid, or such part thereof as shall appear to be Double Land Tax from all future Assessments; and the said sum or sums of money shall and may be then discharged upon the duplicates to be returned for the said county, district or division respectively, and shall be allowed upon the accounts; and the inhabitants of such county, district or division shall stand acquitted as against Her Majesty, Her heirs and successors for ever, touching the charge of payment of such sum or sums of money so discharged by this Act 35 40 Certificate. |