(Sections 114.115.)

the Local Board of Health the Expenses in respect of which the Rate was made, or such Part thereof as may not have been defrayed by Sums already levied in respect of the same.

Meaning of Borough Fund and Borough Rate: Rate charged with existing Annuities.

CXIV. That the Section numbered 87 of the said Public Health Act shall be incorporated herewith ; and the Fund therein mentioned shall be called “the Borough Fund," and the Rate therein mentioned be called "the Borough Rate;" and upon the the Borough Rate shall be charged all Annuities granted under and now due and owing by virtue of the Act hereby repealed, or the former Paving Acts therein and herein-before mentioned, or either of them :

Maximum of
Borough Rate.

But the Amount of such Rate in any One Year shall not exceed the Sum of Two Shillings and Sixpence in the Pound on the rateable Value of the Land and Premises assessable thereto.

Borough Fund

ccount to be kept.

Borough Rate.

LXXXVII. And be it enacted, That the Treasurer shall keep a sepa

rate Account, to be called “ The District Fund Account," and the Monies carried to such Account under the Directions of this Act shall be applied by the Local Board of Health in defraying such of the Expenses incurred or to be incurred by the said Local Board in carrying this Act into execution, and not otherwise expressly provided for, as they may think proper; and the said Local Board shall from Time to Time, when and as often as Occasion may require, make and levy, in addition to any other Rate, a Rate or Rates to be called “General District Rates," for defraying such Expenses as are charged upon that Rate by this Act, and such other Expenses of executing this Act in any District as are not provided for by any other Rate, or defrayed out of the said District Fund Account.

Sections 88, 89, 95, & 99 of II & 12 Vict. c. 63. incorporated with this Act.

CXV. That the following Sections of “The Public Health Act, 1848," shall be incorporated with this Act :

The Section numbered 88 of the said Act, ommitting the last Proviso therein ; and Tithes, Tithe Rentcharges, and other Pay

ments in lieu of Tithes, shall be assessed as and in the same Tithes, &c. how Proportion of their annual Value as Land used as Arable, Mea

dow, or Pasture Ground only:

Power to Commissioners to abate Rate in certain Cases.

Provided always, that the Occupiers of Houses, Buildings, or Ground (other than Land assessable in the Proportion of One Fourth only of the net annual Value thereof as aforesaid) in any (Sec. 115.) Part of the Borough, which Part is not lighted, (a.) paved, cleansed, flagged, repaired, watered, and scavenged by the Commissioners, shall be allowed such an Abatement from the Borough Rate in respect of any such lighting, paving, cleansing, flagging, repairing, watering, or scavengering not performed by the Commissioners as may be settled from Time to Time by the Commissioners :

.

Poor Rates, &c.

LXXXVIII. And be it enacted, That the said Special and General Property assesaDistrict Rates shall be made and levied upon the Occupier (6.) and Borough

to (except in the Cases herein-after provided) (c.) of all such Kinds Rates, of Property as by the Laws in force for the Time being are or may be assessable to any Rate for the Relief of the Poor, and shall be assessed

upon

the full net annual Value of such Property ascertained by the Rate (if any) for the Relief of the Poor made next before the making of the respective Assessments under this Act; and for the Purpose of making any such Assessment the Local Board power to copy of Health, or any Person appointed by them so to do, may from Time to Time, at all reasonable Times, inspect, take Copies of or make Extracts from, any Rate for the Relief of the Poor within their District, or any Assessments by which the same are made ; and whosoever, having the Custody of such last-mentioned Rate Penalty for refuor Assessment, refuses to permit such Inspection, or the taking of ias pec permit

iospection. any such Copy or Extract, shall for every such Offence be liable to a Penalty not exceeding Five Pounds : Provided always, that if no Rate for if in

any District or Part of a District there be no Rate for the Relief of the Relief of the Poor, the said Special and General District Rates be made in marshall be made upon an Estimate of the net annual Value of the by 6 and 7 W. 4. several Premises liable thereto in such District or Part of a Dis

(Section 115.)

Arable, meadow, &c. Railway, &c.

trict, by a fit Person appointed by the Local Board of Health in
that Behalf, and such Estimate shall be made, as near as Circum-
stances will permit, in the Manner prescribed by an Act passed in
the Seventh Year of the Reign of King William the Fourth, in-
tituled An Act to regulate Parochial Assessments, or any other Act
for the Time being in force for regulating Parochial Assessments :
Provided also, that the Occupier of any Land used as Arable, Mea-
dow, or Pasture Ground only, or as Woodlands, Market Gardens,
or Nursery Grounds, and the Occupier of any Land covered with
Water, or used only as a Canal, or Towing Path for the same, or
as a Railway, constructed under the Powers of any Act of Parlia-
ment, for public Conveyance, shall be assessed in respect of the
same in the Proportion of One Fourth Part only of such net an-
nual Value thereof : (a.)

Also the Section numbered 89 in the said Act:

Rates may be prospective or

rospectire.

Assessment to
Rates in
case of unoccu-
pied Premises.

LXXXIX. And be it enacted, That the Local Board of Ilealth may

make and levy the said Special and General District Rates, or any
or either of them, prospectively, in order to raise Money for the
Payment of future Charges and Expenses, or retrospectively in
order to raise Money for the Payment of Charges and Expenses
which may have been incurred at any Time within Six Months
before the making of the Rate ; and if at the Time of making any
General or Special District Rate any Premises in respect of which
the Rate may be made are unoccupied, such Premises shall be in-
cluded in the Rate, but the Rate shall not be charged upon any
Person in respect of the same whilst they continue to be unoccu-
pied; and if any such Premises are afterwards occupied during
any Part of the Period for which the Rate was made, and before
the same shall have been fully paid, the Name of the incoming
Tenant shall be inserted in the Rate, and thereupon so much of
the Rate as at the Commencement of his Tenancy may

be in pro-
portion to the Remainder of the said Period shall be collected,
recovered, and paid in the same Manner in all respects as if the
Premises had been occupied at the Time when the Rate was made;
and if any Owner or Occupier assessed or liable to any such Rate
cease to be Owner or Occupier of the Premises in respect whereof
he is so assessed or liable, before the End of the Period for which

Apport ionment of Rates between outgoing and incoming Tenants, &c.

(a.) After this followed the provisn, whose existence was deemed sufficient reason against hare ing a Provisional Order applied to Cheltenham and which proviso is excluded from this Act, and is as follows: - Provided also, that if within any District or Part of a District any kind of Property shall before the passing of this Act have been exempted from rating by any Local Act, in respect of all or any of the Purposes for which General or Special District Rates may be made under this Act, the same kind of Property shall, in respect of the same Purposes, and to the same Extent within the Parts to which the Exemption applies, but not further or otherwise, be exempt froin Assessment to any General or Special District Rates nnder this Act.

rough may be

(Sec. 115.)
the Rate was made, and before the same is fully paid off, he shall
be liable to pay only such Part of the Rate as shall be in propor-
tion to the Time during which he continues to be such Owner or
Occupier; and in every such Case, if any Person afterwards be-
come Owner or Occupier of the Premises during Part of the said
Period, he shall pay such Part of the Rate as shall be in propor-
tion to the Time during which he continues to be such Owner or
Occupier, and the same shall be recovered fron him in the same
Manner as if he had been originally assessed or liable ; and the Parts of B-
said Local Board may from Time to Time divide their District, or separatels
any Street therein, into One or more Parts, for all or any or either
of the Purposes of this Act, and make a seperate Assessment upon
any such Part for and in respect of all or any of the Purposes for
which the same is formed ; and every such Part, so far as relates

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to the Purposes in respect of which such separate Assessment is
made, shall be exempt from any other Assessment under this Act:
Provided always, that if any Expenses are incurred or to be in-
curred in respect of Two or more Parts of a District in common
the same shall be apportioned between them in a fair and equitable
Manner.

assessed.

Also the Section numbered 95 in the said Act :

Tenements

Value of Ten

XCV. Provided always, and be it enacted, That when the net an- Composition for

nual Value of any Premises liable to Assessment under this Act kates upon
does not exceed the Sum of Ten Pounds, or whenever any Pre- under the annual
mises liable to such Assessment are let to weekly or monthly Pounds, &c.
Tenants, or in separate Apartments, and the Rents become paya-
ble or are collected at any shorter Period than quarterly, the Local
Board of Health may from Time to Time, if they shall think fit,
compound with the Owner of such Premises for the Payment of
all or any of the Rates to be made under this Act, upon such re-
duced Estimate of the net annual Value, not being less than Two
Thirds or more than Four Fifths of the net annual Value at which
the Premises are then assessed, as the said Local Board shall deem.
to be reasonable; and any Owner who shall refuse to enter into Owners refusing

to enter into such Composition shall be rated (a.) to and pay the Rates assessed composition to

be rated and

pay in full. (a.) It has been suggested that under the words "Rates to be made," the composition must be offered and refused, prior to the rate being made, and then the owner may be rated; but what time is to be allowed the owner to consider ? and what is to be a refusal ? It will be observed there are four kinds of piemises mentioned in this section viz: 1st. -Prerises under the net annual value of £10. 2nd.-Premises under that value and let to weekly Tenants. 3rd.- Premises under that value and let to monthly Tenants, and 4th.- Premises under that value let in separate apartments, then comes the words "and the rents become payable or are collected at any shorter period than quarterly.” Mr. Lawes in his arrangement of this clause has placed these Fords as though they belonged exclusively to the Premises mentioned in the 4th division, but it may be contended that as the three last divisions are only separated by the disjunctive,

"or" from the Ist division, the copulative "and” as much connects its following sentence with the Ist

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(Sec. 115.)

Owner not to pay on increased value.

Occupier liable.

upon such Premises in respect of which the Composition is offered ; and if at any Time the Amount of Composition, or any Rate to which an Owner is assessed as last aforesaid, be due and unpaid, the same may be levied by Distress and Sale of the Goods and Chattels of the Owner in default, wheresoever they may be found, or of the Occupier or Occupiers of the Premises, in the same Manner as is herein-after provided with respect to the Recovery of Rates made under this Act : Provided always, that no such Owner shall be assessed in respect of any increased Rent which may

become payable to him by reason of his so compounding for or becoming liable to any Rates as aforesaid : Provided also, that the Occupier or Occupiers of any such Premises as last aforesaid shall be liable to Distress and Sale of his or their Goods and Chattels for the Nonpayment of such Amount of Composition or Rates as may become due in respect of the Premises occupied by him or them during his or their Tenancy, but shall never be liable to pay any greater Sum than the Amount of the Rent actually due from him or them for such Premises; and he or they may deduct

any

Amount paid by him or them from the Rent due, or from Time to Time becoming due, from him or them, unless there be an Agreement to the contrary; and the Receipt for the Amount paid by him or them shall to that Extent be, as against the Owner in default, a sufficient Discharge for Rent.

And may deduct from Rent.

Also the Section numbered 99 of the said Act:

Notice of Rate.

make any

XCIX. And be it enacted, That public Notice ( a.) of Intention to

General or Special District Rate, and of the Time at which it is intended to make the same, and of the Place where a Statement of the proposed Rate is deposited for Inspection, shall be given by the Local Board of Health in the Week immediataly before the Day on which the Rate is intended to be made, and at least Seven Days previously thereto; but in case of Proceedings to levy or recover any Rate it shall not be necessary to prove that such Notice was given.