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Lord Lieutenant may cause Applotments to be amended.
Power to apply for the making of an Applotment where none shall have been made.
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XV. And be it enacted, That it shall be lawful for any Person or Persons in any Parish who would have been, in case this Act had not been made, individually or collectively liable to the Payment of more than One Fourth of the Amount of the whole Composition established in and for such Parish, whether the several Sums payable by him or them respectively shall be or may have been payable to any Party entitled to the Receipt of any Composition, or to any Landlord who may have taken upon him the Payment of such Composition, to apply to the said Lord Lieutenant in Council praying the Amendment of the Applotment of any Composition, and such Application shall be made by Memorial, to be lodged at any Time before First Day of October next with the said Clerk of the Council, and notified by public Advertisement and otherwise, in like Manner as Appeals against Certificates of Compositions; and if by any such Memorial it shall be made to appear to the Satisfaction of the said Lord Lieutenant in Council that any such Applotment of such Composition is defective or unjust, or does not with sufficient Precision ascertain the Lands and Holdings in respect whereof the said Rent-charges will be payable, it shall and may be lawful for the said Lord Lieutenant in Council to direct such Applotment to be amended, and for that Purpose to appoint some One or more skilful Person or Persons, who shall therein have and exercise the like Powers, Privileges and Authorities, and observe the several Regulations in the said Acts for establishing Compositions of Tithes expressed and contained, but subject nevertheless to such Instructions and Directions as the said Lord Lieutenant in Council shall prescribe for the avoiding any Defect or Uncertainty to which the original Applotment may have been liable; and such amended Applotment shall be returned to the Clerk of the said Council, attested under the Hand of the Person or Persons making the same, and the original Book of Applotment shall be amended under the Direction of the said Lord Lieutenant in Council accordingly; and such amended Book of Applotment shall be in the Place and Stead of the said original Book Applotment, and be valid and effectual to all Intents and Purposes for which the said original Book of Applotment would have been valid and effectual, but in the meantime such original Book shall be in full Force and Effect; and in every Case in which no Applotment shall hitherto have been made, it shall be lawful for any such Persons as are herein-before authorized to apply for the Amendment of any Applotment to apply for the making of such Applotment, in like Manner and within the like Period as is herein-before provided with respect to Memorials for the Amendment of any Applotment; and in every such Case it shall and may be lawful for the said Lord Lieutenant in Council to appoint One or more skilful Person or Persons to make such Applotment, who shall therein have and exercise the like Powers, Privileges, and Authorities, and observe as far as may be the like Regulations, as are given and directed to be observed by the said Acts for establishing Compositions of Tithes; and the said Lord Lieutenant shall cause to be paid to the Person or Persons employed for the Purposes aforesaid such Remuneration as he shall think reasonable, and the Expences thereof shall be repaid by Grand Jury Presentment, on or off the Parish in which such Expences shall have been incurred and a Certificate of the Amount so expended in respect of each such parish shall be transmitted under the Hand of one of the joint or assistant Secretaries of the Commissioners of the Treasury to the Treasurer of the County in which such Parish may be situate; and such Treasurer shall insert the Sum specified in such Certificate in his Warrant for the Collection of the Money to be raised and levied off such Parish by Presentment of the Grand Jury at the Assizes next succeeding, and such Sum shall be applotted (If Need be by a separate Applotment) and raised and levied off the Land liable to Rent-charge in such Parish in like Manner and by the like Ways and Means as if such Sum had been presented by the said Grand Jury at such Assizes to be levied off such Lands, and shall be paid over by the said Treasurer when and as by him received to such Bank or Person and in such Manner as the said Commissioners of the Treasury shall direct.
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