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Commissioners upon their election to make an estimate of the expences attending the execution of the Act for the ensuing year, and impose rates for defraying the same.
Scales or rates.
Each house, &c. to be rated separately;
except in the case of contiguous houses in one undivided tenancy.
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38. [1]
The commissioners first elected to carry this Act into execution in any city, town corporate, borough, market town, or other town, shall with all convenient speed after the election proceed to make an estimate of the expences and charges attendant upon carrying the purposes of this Act into effect, until the thirty-first day of July then next ensuing, and shall fix, ascertain, and impose certain rates and assessments for defraying the same, to be applotted upon and to be raised and leveid from and off the owners, occupiers, or tenants, of all houses, shops, warehouses, cellars, mills, yards, gardens and tenements, within such city, town corporate, borough, market town, or other town, or the suburbs or liberties thereof, as determined by the said commissioners; (that is to say,) on the owners, occupiers, and tenants, all such houses, shops, warehouses, cellars mills, yards, gardens, and tenements, of the yearly value (as computed under the valuation herein-before directed to be made,) of five pounds, and not amounting to ten pounds, one or more rate or rates not exceeding in the whole the amount of sixpence in the pound of such yearly value; on the owners, occupiers, or tenants, of all such houses, shops, warehouses, cellars, mills, yards, gardens, and tenements, of the yearly value (computed ad aforesaid) of ten pounds, and not amounting to twenty pounds, one or more rate or rates not exceeding in the whole ninepence in the pound of such yearly value; and on the owners, occupiers, or tenants, of all such houses, shops, warehouses, cellars, mills, yards, gardens, and tenements, of the yearly value (computed as aforesaid) of twenty pounds or upwards, one or more rate or rates not exceeding in the whole one shilling in the pound of such yearly value; and each individual house, shop, warehouse, cellar, mill, yard, garden, and tenement, shall be separately rated without reference to or including in the applotment of such rate any other house, shop, cellar, warehouse, mill, yard, garden, or tenement, belonging to or occupied by the same person; provided that all contiguous houses, shops, cellars, warehouses, mills, yards, gardens, and tenements, occupied by one and the same person or by the same persons, and forming one entire concern or undivided tenancy or holding, shall be rated together and not separately.
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