PARLIAMENTA RY FORMS. Private Act Navigation (canal). years, or within in and for the same county, at any time before the expiration of the Public act (1). THE SCHEDULE TO WHICH THE FOREGOING ACT REFERS (2). (1) See ante, p. 375. (2) See form ante, p. 254. No. CCCCXXI. A Bill or Private Act for better providing for the maintenance, &c. of the Poor (1). Variation where a select vestry is to be appointed. Also where the workhouse is to be rebuilt or repaired. 1. Notice of Application to Parliament (2). NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that an application is intended to be [and to appoint a select vestry for that purpose, and also to repair or rebuild and enlarge as may be most expedient, the workhouse of the said parish]; and also to take power by the said act to make and levy rates for the said purposes. (Solicitor). 2. The Petition for leave to bring in the Bill (3). To &c. (4). The humble Petition of the several persons whose names PARLIAMENTA RY FORMS. Private Act (employment). PARLIAMENTA RY FORMS. Private Act (employment). That the sum raised for defraying the expenses of maintaining the poor of the said parish amounted in the last year to £ : That the assessment of so large a sum falls very heavy upon the inhabitants of the said parish, in consequence of contributing to the support of numerous paupers who have lately settled therein: That it would tend very much to the advantage of the poor of the said parish and the relief of the inhabitants, if further powers were granted for assessing and collecting the several rates relating to the said poor, and also for the removal of paupers: and also if, &c. [state such other regulations, &c. as are deemed requisite], but the same cannot be effected without the authority of Parliament. Your Petitioners therefore humbly pray, &c. (1). 3. THE BILL. An Act for better raising, assessing and collecting the Poor and other Parochial Rates in the Parish of of Preamble. , in the County in the county of is WHEREAS the parish of large and populous; and the poor belonging thereto are numerous, and supported at a great expense: and whereas the laws now in force for assessing and collecting monies for the relief of the poor, and other parochial purposes of the said parish, are found inconvenient and ineffectual, and the rates and assessments made in the said parish are in many cases evaded and rendered unproductive: and whereas it would tend to the equalization and reduction of the present poor and other parochial rates and assessments within the said parish, if further and additional powers were given for assessing and ENACTMENTS. collecting such rates and assessments: May it therefore please your Majesty that it may be enacted; and be it enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the ments, &c. to be Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parpaid by the liament assembled, and by the authority of the same, That from and after the passing of this act the several lessors, landlords or owners of all such houses, buildings, tenements and other hereditaments within the said parish, the yearly rent or value whereof respectively That rates of small houses, or houses let in separate apart landlord. (1) See ante, p. 46. shall not exceed £ PARLIAMENTA RY FORMS. Private Act Poor or which (whatever the yearly rent or value may be) shall be let or offered to be let to weekly or monthly tenants, or which shall be let or offered to be let furnished, or in lodgings, or in separate apartments, or at rents which shall be- (employment). come payable and collected at any shorter periods than quarterly, shall and may from time to time and at all times hereafter (if the churchwardens and overseers of the poor of the said parish shall so think fit), be rated and assessed to the rates for the relief of the poor, and all other the parochial rates of the said parish, for or in respect of all such houses, buildings, tenements and hereditaments respectively, instead of the actual occupiers thereof, save and except for ecclesiastical or church rates so far as respects the people called Quakers; and the person or persons so rated, whether the lessor or lessors, landlord or landlords, owner or owners, or the occupier or occupiers, shall from time to time pay or cause to be paid all and every such rates and assessments in respect of such houses, buildings, tenements and hereditaments respectively. Provided always, and be it further enacted, That if the lessor or lessors, landlord or landlords, owner or owners of any house, building, tenement or hereditament, the yearly rent or value whereof shall not exceed and which shall be let to one tenant only, at a rent which shall become or be made payable quarterly only, shall be rated and assessed as the occupier or occupiers of any such house, building, tenement, or hereditament, then it shall and may be lawful to and for the churchwardens and overseers of the poor of the said parish, or the major part of them, and they are hereby required, on the application and request of every or any such lessor or lessors, landlord or landlords, owner or owners, to compound with him, her or them, for the payment of all and every or any of the rates and assessments for the relief and maintenance of the poor, and all other the parochial rates of the said parish (save and except ecclesiastical or church rates so far as respects the people called Quakers), at such reduced yearly rentals as the said churchwardens and overseers of the poor, or the major part of them, (or the said churchwardens only, in case of church rates,) shall think reasonable, not being more than nor less than of the rack-rent or annual value of such houses, buildings, tenements or hereditaments respectively; and also that it shall and may be lawful to and for the said churchwardens and overseers of the poor of the said parish (or for the churchwardens only in case of church rates, but not with the people called Quakers for such last-mentioned rates,) and they are hereby required, on such application and request as aforesaid, to compound Landlords, &c. of such houses may compound for the rates. 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Private Act PARLIAMENTA- with any lessor or lessors, landlord or landlords, owner or owners of any houses, buildings, tenements or other hereditaments in the said parish, which shall be let or offered to be let to weekly or monthly (employment). tenants, or which shall be let or offered to be let furnished or in lodgings, or in separate apartments, or at rents which shall become payable or to be collected at any shorter period than quarterly, for the payment of all and every the said rates and assessments, for or in respect of such houses, buildings, tenements or hereditaments, at such reduced yearly rentals as the said churchwardens and overseers of the poor, or the major part of them, (or the said churchwardens only in case of church-rates,) shall think reasonable, not being less than two-thirds of the rack-rent or annual value of such houses, buildings, tenements or hereditaments respectively; and that the said churchwardens and overseers of the poor respectively may vary, discontinue, alter or renew any or either of such compositions, as they shall from time to time deem expedient: provided always, that no such landlord or owner shall be charged with or liable to pay for any increased rent, reserved and made payable to him for or on account of such landlord or owner having agreed to pay the rates heretofore chargeable upon the several occupiers of such premises respectively. Landlord not to be charged for increased rent. Manner of levyAnd be it further enacted, That in case any lessor or lessors, landing rates of landlords or tenants. lord or landlords, owner or owners, occupier or occupiers, of any houses, buildings, tenements, or hereditaments within the said parish, for or in respect whereof he, she, or they shall be rated or assessed in or to any rate or assessment made or to be made by virtue of this act, shall neglect or refuse to pay any rate or assessment upon him, her, or them made, laid, and assessed under and by virtue of this act or by any other means, and all arrears due thereon, or upon any former rate or rates, or the amount of any composition or compositions, it shall and may be lawful to and for any or more of his Majesty's justices of the peace for the said county of and he and they is and are hereby authorized and required (on proof made before him or them by any of the churchwardens or overseers of the poor of the said parish, or by a collector of the said rate or rates for the time being, of his having demanded the rate or rates, composition or compositions aforesaid, of the person or persons intended to be summoned, or of the occupier of the premises for or in respect of which such rate or rates, composition or compositions, shall be due and owing, and of his or her having neglected or refused to pay the same) to summon, by writing under his or their hand or hands, all and every person and persons who shall have refused or neglected as aforesaid to appear at the time and place to be men |