City of Dublin (Rates) Act 1849

Borough Rate to be collected by Collector General. 3 & 4 Vict. c. 108.

XXXVII. And be it enacted, That the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Burgesses of Dublin, when and as often as they shall make a Borough Rate under the Provisions of an Act passed in the Third and Fourth Years of the Reign of Her present Majesty, intituled An Act for the Regulation of Municipal Corporations in Ireland, or any Act or Acts amending the same, shall, on or before the Tenth Day of December One thousand eight hundred and fifty, and on or before the Tenth Day of December in each succeeding Year, estimate and ascertain, as nearly as may be, the Amount of the Sums of Money on account of such Borough Rate which they shall find necessary for the Purposes of the said recited Act, and of any Act or Acts amending the same, for Twelve Months next following the First Day of January in each Year; and the said Collector General shall be and is hereby authorized and required, on and after such First Day of January, to applot, levy, and collect the Money therein mentioned according thereto, in the Manner and subject to the Rules and Regulations in this Act contained respecting the applotting, levying, collecting, and recovering of the several other Rates herein mentioned; provided always, that the Amount of such Portion of such Estimate as is empowered or required to be raised and levied by any Rate under the said recited Act, or any Act amending the same, and this Act, or any of them, shall not exceed the Amount or Sum which the said Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Burgesses, under the said recited Act, or any Act amending the same, would have been entitled to raise and levy by any Rate or Assessment under the said recited Act, or any Act amending the same, if this Act had not been passed; and such Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Burgesses shall certify such Estimate as aforesaid under their Common Seal, and transmit the same, on or before the said Tenth Day of December in each Year as aforesaid, to the Office of the said Collector General.