SCHEDULE (H.) ANNUAL RETURN by each TRUSTEE within Fourteen Days after the Thirty-first Day of October, and by each SHERIFF CLERK within Fourteen Days thereafter. Bankruptcy (Scotland). SCHEDULE (I.) Table of Fees payable under this Act. L-IN THE COURT OF SESSION. (1.) To the Collector of the Fee Fund: All other Papers, being Steps of Procedure, and not £ s. d. 0 10 0 026 (2.) To the Keeper of the General Minute Book: For entering the First Deliverance, and Deliverance awarding Sequestration, Adjudication, and Discharge, and Approval of Composition, each For entering any other Deliverance or Intimation (3.) To the Extractors: For every Extract made of the Proceedings or of the Deliverance of the Lord Ordinary or Inner House, per Sheet II. TO THE KEEPERS OF THE RECORDS. 026 010 010 For entering any Schedule (1.) To the Sheriff Clerk : For every other Deliverance, not being merely an For every Transmission to or by him of the Proceed- For entering the First Deliverance, and the Deliverance awarding Sequestration, in the Register, each (if separate) For entering the Name and Designation of the Trustee and Commissioners in the Register 006 006 For Bankruptcy (Scotland). Income and Land Taxes. £ s. d. For issuing, receiving back, and examining Bond of For every Warrant of Apprehension or Citation of the Bankrupt or others, or Commission to take Examination For every certified Copy or Extract of the Proceedings before the Sheriff, or of any Deliverance pronounced by him, per Sheet 0 1 0 - 02 6 For every annual Report of the depending Sequestrations, for each Sequestration, to be paid by the Trustee For every borrowing of all or any Part of the Proceedings 01 0 - 006 (2.) To the Sheriff: Attending any Meeting of Creditors or Examination, for each such Meeting or Diet of Examination, not being on the same Day Table of Prices payable for Advertisements in the London or For more than Six Lines and not exceeding Ten For more than Ten Lines and not exceeding Fifteen L s. d. 0 6 0 07 6 0 10 6 For more than Fifteen Lines and not exceeding For more than Twenty-five Lines and not more than CA P. LXXX. An Act to grant Relief in assessing the Income Tax on Lands in Scotland in respect of certain Public Burdens charged thereon; to alter and regulate the Allowances to Clerks to the Commissioners of Income Tax; and to amend the Laws relating to the Land, Assessed, and Income Taxes, and the Redemption and Purchase of the Land Tax. [29th July 1856.] WE WHEREAS it is expedient to grant Relief in assessing the Income Tax on Lands in Scotland in respect of certain 'Public Burdens charged thereon, and to alter and regulate the Allowances to Clerks to the Commissioners of Income Tax, and ⚫ also to amend the Laws relating to the Redemption and Pur19 & 20 VICT. Ff • chase Relief from Scotland in re- paid by Landlords in England. Allowances to come Tax Com- Income and Land Taxes. chase of the Land Tax:' 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: 6 I. Whereas the Rules contained in the Act passed in the Fifth and Sixth Years of Her Majesty's Reign, Chapter Thirty-five, for estimating the annual Value of Properties described in Schedules (A.) and (B.) of the Acts relating to the Income Tax, in order to the assessing and charging of the same under the 'said Acts, direct that where any Landlord shall be subject to any Covenant or Agreement to pay or satisfy out of the Rent ' reserved Parochial Rates, Taxes, and Assessments which by Law are a Charge on the Occupiers of Lands, the annual Value of such Lands shall be estimated for the Purpose aforesaid, 'exclusive of such Rates, Taxes, and Assessments: And whereas 'certain Public Rates and Taxes which in England are by Law a Charge on the Occupiers of Lands are in Scotland charged on the Landlords, and other Public Burdens, the like whereof 'do not exist in England, are also charged on the Landlords in Scotland; and it is expedient to afford Relief to Landlords in "Scotland with respect to the Charge of the Income Tax upon them in regard to all such Cases as aforesaid:' Be it enacted, That where it shall be made to appear to the Satisfaction of the Commissioners of Inland Revenue that the Landlord of Lands in Scotland is by Law charged with any Public Rates, Taxes, or Assessments which in England are by Law a Charge on the Occupiers of Lands, or that such Landlord is by Law charged with any Public Rates or Taxes or other Public Burdens the like whereof are not chargeable on Lands in England, the said Commissioners shall cause such Relief to be given to the said Landlords in Scotland as shall be just and reasonable in regard to the Charge of the Income Tax on them in respect of an annual Value exceeding by the Amount of such Rates, Taxes, Assessments, and Public Burdens the Charge of the said Tax on Landlords in England, and such Relief shall be given either by Abatement from the Assessment, or by Repayment of the Tax, and under such Rules, Regulations, and Directions as the said Commissioners shall think fit to make or give in that Behalf. II. And whereas by Section One hundred and eighty-three of the said recited Act certain Allowances were directed to be granted to the Clerks of the respective Commissioners of Income Tax for the due Performance by the said Clerks of the Duties of their Offices respectively, and by an Act passed in the Six'teenth and Seventeenth Years of Her Majesty's Reign, Chapter Thirty-four, Section Fifty-seven, certain other Allowances were 'directed to be granted to the said Clerks in lieu of the said former 'Allowances' Be it enacted, That the said Allowances directed to be granted by the said recited Acts or either of them to the Clerks of the respective Commissioners of Income Tax shall be and the same are hereby repealed as to all Assessments made or to be made for any Year commencing from or after the Fifth Day Income and Land Taxes. Day of April One thousand eight hundred and fifty-six, and in lieu thereof there shall be granted the following Allowances; (that is to say,) the Clerk of the respective Commissioners who shall duly perform the Duties of his Office within the respective Times limited by Law in that Behalf, and shall have borne and sustained the incidental Expenses mentioned in the said first-recited Act, shall, by Warrant under the Hands of the said Commissioners, have and receive from the respective Officers for Receipt Twopence in the Pound on so much of the net Amount of the Sums assessed and charged in the Duplicates of Assessment for any Year commencing as aforesaid, after all Appeals heard and determined, and all just Reductions, Abatements, and Discharges made from such Assessments and Duplicates respectively, as will give to such Clerk an Allowance not exceeding Five hundred Pounds for any one Year, and at the Rate of One Penny in the Pound on the Remainder (if any) of the said net Amount: Provided always, that it shall be lawful for the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, in any Case in which they shall see fit, to cause such further Allowance to be made to any such Clerk as aforesaid of any Sum not exceeding One Penny in the Pound on the Amount of such Part of the gross Assessment as shall have been discharged on occasion of Claims for Exemption or Abatement made or allowed on the Ground of Income being below One hundred and fifty Pounds and One hundred Pounds a Year respectively as the said last-mentioned Commissioners shall, on consideration of the Extent and Population of the District, and the Number of such Claims, think proper to direct; and the Certificate of the Commissioners of Inland Revenue shall be an Authority to the Officers for Receipt respectively to pay such further Allowance as last mentioned. 6 the to Redemption of Land Tax repealed. III. And whereas by an Act passed in the Sixteenth and Section 2. of Seventeenth Years of Her Majesty's Reign, Chapter One hun- 16 & 17 Vict. 'dred and seventeen, Section Two, it is enacted, that upon c. 117. relating Completion of any Contract entered into after the passing of the 'said last-mentioned Act for the Redemption of Land Tax, and upon the Transfer or Payment of the Consideration for the same, the Messuages, Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments comprised in such Contract shall be wholly freed and exonerated from the Land Tax charged thereon, and from all further Assessments thereof, and from any yearly Term, Rent, or Rentcharge in respect of any Consideration for such Contract: Be it enacted, That the said last-recited Enactment, so far as regards any such Contract as aforesaid to be entered into at any Time after the passing of this Act, shall be and the same is hereby repealed. IV. And for the more convenient Execution of the Acts relating respectively to the Land Tax, the Assessed Taxes, and the Income Tax,' be it enacted, That it shall be lawful for the nient ExecuCommissioners acting in the Execution of the Acts relating to the tion of the Acts Land Tax for any Division, at any Meeting of such Commissioners relating to the convened for that Purpose, if and as they shall see fit (subject Land Tax, &c. as herein provided), to unite any Two or more Parishes, Townships, Tithings, Hamlets, or Places (extra-parochial or other Ff2 wise), Parishes or Places may be united for the more conve |