several subject matters of the assessment; the details which arise in reference to the process of the valuation and the map are fully discussed; and the proceedings attending the appeal and its costs, and the amending or quashing of the rate, are set forth. In an Appendix is printed the form of contract for a survey, plan, and valuation, recommended for adoption by the Poor Law Commissioners, and the regulations prescribed by them and the Tithe Commissioners, in regard to the making of maps, under their respective authorities, are shown at length. The statutes passed in modern times, relating to the rating of certain property to the poor-rate, are also printed in the Appendix. 1844. CONTENTS. THE STATUTE 6 & 7 Will. 4, c. 96 THE COMMENTARY ON THE FIRST SECTION Rates and taxes are not to be deducted from the What subjects not to be deducted Deductions not to be made by a uniform rate What rates and taxes to be deducted How the amount of gross rental to be estimated with reference to the deduction Minute of the poor law commissioners thereon Parochial and mileage valuations Meaning of the proviso to the first section Act for temporary exemption Partial exemptions from assessment - The guardians are to appoint the surveyor maps As to necessity of a survey in all cases Approval of the valuation by the commissioners Division of the holdings A valuation to be made, not a rate Payment of the expenses Enforcing of order of guardians Cost of valuation sometimes payable out of the produce of sale of parochial property - |