City of Dublin Act 1775

As no regular watch tax in said baronies, assessed at is. per l. of yearly rent as rated for minister’s money,

paid annually.

XXXVI. Whereas by said last mentioned act a tax, not exceeding one shilling in the pound in any one year, may be laid or assessed by the commissioners in said act named, or any nine or more of them, on all lands, houses, shops, warehouses, cellars, vaults, or tenements within the said city of Dublin, liberties, and other places comprized in said act, as the same shall have been ascertained and rated towards the maintenance of the watch in such parish and place respectively for each preceding year, and to be paid annually by such person and persons, and in such proportion, manner, and form, as the rates towards the support of the watch are now paid: and whereas there is not any regular tax for maintenance of the watch in the said baronies of saint Sepulchre’s, and Donore: be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, that from and after the passing of this act into a law one or more rate or rates, assessment or assessments, shall twice in every year, or oftener if it shall be thought needful by the commissioners herein and by the said former act appointed, or any nine or more of them, be laid and assessed by the said commissioners, or any nine or more of them, for and upon all and every the lands, houses, shops, warehouses, cellars, vaults, or tenements within the said baronies of saint Sepulchres and Donore, in such sum and sums of money as the said commissioners, or any nine or more of them, shall yearly and every year order and direct, so as such rates or assessments do not exceed in the whole the sum of one shilling in the pound in any one year of the yearly rent of such lands, houses, shops, warehouses, cellars, vaults, or other tenements, as the same shall have been ascertained and rated for ministers money in such baronies and places respectively for each preceding year; which rate or rates, assessment or assessments shall be paid annually by such person and persons, and in such proportion, manner, and form, as the rates for ministers money are now paid.