Report of the Poor Law Commissioners on Local Taxation

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W. Clowes and Sons, 1844 - 360 pages

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Page 255 - Tenant's Rates and Taxes, and Tithe Commutation Rent-charge, if any, and deducting therefrom the probable average annual cost of the repairs, insurance, and other expenses, if any, necessary to maintain them in a state to command such Rent...
Page 275 - Officer of the Company, and need not be under the Common Seal of the Company, and the same may be in Writing or in Print, or partly in Writing and partly in Print.
Page 85 - ... and at such special or adjourned sessions the justices there present shall hear and determine all objections to any such rate on the ground of inequality, unfairness, or incorrectness in the valuation...
Page 20 - Collectors shall gently ask and demand of every man and woman what they of their charity will give weekly towards the relief of the poor; and the same is to be written in the same book.
Page 302 - ... whatsoever employed in any manner in making such distress, or doing any act whatsoever in the course of such distress, or for carrying the same into effect, shall have, take, or receive out of the produce of the goods or chattels distrained upon and sold, or from the tenant distrained on, or from the landlord...
Page 47 - Commissioners shall by any order under their seal of office-direct, no rate for the relief of the poor in England and Wales shall be allowed by any justices, or be of any force, which shall not be made upon an estimate of the net annual value of the several hereditaments rated thereunto ; that is to say, of the rent at which the same might reasonably be expected to let from year to year, free of all usual tenants...
Page 249 - Act, be deemed to have been rated to the relief of the poor in respect of such premises from the period at which the rate shall have been made in respect of which he shall have so claimed to be rated as aforesaid...
Page 249 - ... to claim to be rated to the relief of the poor in respect of such premises, whether the landlord shall or shall not be liable to be rated to the relief of the poor...
Page 329 - ... findings of the court shall be entered in a book or books to be kept for that purpose, and known as the "Juvenile Record," and the court may for convenience be called the "Juvenile Court.
Page 38 - They succeeded by degrees, and then followed upon " their success a more improvident practice in giving relief than " had ever prevailed before in England. It was in this district, " and at this time, that relief by head-money had its origin, and " produced its most conspicuous effects in deteriorating the habits " and depreciating the wages of the agricultural labourer. When " the practice of rating stock in trade was fully established in this " district, the ancient staple trade rapidly declined...

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