son or persons by or through whom such person 20 Geo.3.c.17. voting, or claiming to vote, as aforesaid, shall the election, in derive his title to the messuages, lands, or tene- the name of the ments, for which he shall vote, or claim to vote, whom he deperson through as aforesaid, or in the name of some predecessor, rives title, or within two years next before such election, of such person claiming to vote in respect of any two years, or promotion to any benefice in a church, or pro- their tenants motion to an office, or in the name of the tenant actually occu pying. or tenants of such person or persons, such tenant or tenants actually occupying such messuages, lands or tenements.

of some predecessor within

in the name of

to deliver to

assessors a

an assessment,

act,) who are

assessments ac

§ 3. And be it further enacted, that the com- Commissioners missioners of the land-tax for that part of Great of the land-tax Britain called England, or the principality of Wales, at their respective meetings held for ap- printed form of pointing assessors of the land-tax for the several (for which see parishes and places lying within the division for the end of the which such commissioners shall act, shall cause to make their to be delivered to each of the said assessors, a cording thereprinted form of assessment, as set forth in the to, schedule hereunto annexed; and the said assessors are hereby required to make their assessments according to the said form; and shall make three duplicates of such assessments; and shall (at least fourteen days before such assess- duplicates ment shall be delivered to the commissioners of which, or a the land-tax for the county, riding, or division, copy, 14 days within which the parish or place for which such to commissionassessment shall be made shall lie) cause one of ers, the said duplicates, or a fair copy thereof, to be to be stuck up stuck up upon one of the doors of the church on the door of or chapel of the parish or place for which such church, &c. assessment shall be made; but in case such If assessment assessment shall be made for an extra-parochial be for an extraor any other place, where there is not any or for any place parochial place

making three

thereof, one of

before delivery

the parish

on the door of

rish.

Where person

&c. to be sepa.

be delivered to commissioners at their next meeting for receipt of assessments.

Persons enti

tled to vote whose names

20 Geo. 3. c.17. church or chapel, then such assessment shall be were no church, stuck up upon one of the doors of the church or &c. to be stuck chapel in a parish next adjoining; and if any perthe church, &c, son or persons (renting, holding, or occupying, in the next pa- any messuages, lands, or tenements, in any such parish or place) shall rent, hold, or occupy, mesoccupies mes- suages, lands, or tenements, belonging to differsuages, &c. be- ent owners, or proprietors, the same shall be longing to different owners, separately and distinctly rated and assessed in such messuages, such assessments, that the proportion of the rately assessed land-tax to be paid by each separate owner or proprietor respectively may be known and asDuplicates to certained; and the said duplicates shall be delivered to the land-tax commissioners, at their meeting for the receipt of assessments; and if the name of any owner or owners of any messuages, lands, or tenements, in such parish or place, entitled to vote as aforesaid, shall not appear or be included in such assessment, it shall and may be lawful for such person or persons, by himself or themselves, or by his or their agent or agents, to appeal to the commissioners of the land-tax, to whom such assessments shall be returned; and every person so giving previous intending to appeal shall, and is hereby required to give notice thereof in writing to one or more of the assessors of the parish or place wherein Commissioners he is rated; and the said commissioners, on sufficient cause to be shewn, shall amend the dutive, by insert. plicates of such assessments, by inserting therein ing or erasing the name or names of the actual occupier or occupiers, and of the owner or owners of such messuages, lands, or tenements, or the person or persons entitled to, or in the actual receipt of the rents, issues, and profits thereof, or by erasing the name of any person who shall appear to them to have been improperly inserted therein;

are omitted in may appeal to

the assessments

the commissioners;

notice to asses

sors.

to amend the assessments where defec

names.

returned to the

assessors, and

liver the same

chief consta

and the said commissioners are hereby required 20 Geo.3.c.17. to cause one of the said duplicates so amended An amended (after the same shall be duly signed and sealed duplicate to be by the said commissioners or any three of them) to be returned to the said assessors, or one of they are to dethem; and such assessors are hereby required to within ten days deliver such duplicate, so amended, within ten to one of the days after the receipt thereof, to one of the bles of the hunchief constables of the hundred, lathe, or wa- dred, &c. takpentake, within which the parish or place for ing his receipt. which such assessment was made shall lie, taking the receipt of such chief constable for the same, and which receipt such chief constable is hereby required to give; and such chief consta- Chief constable ble is hereby also required to deliver such dupli- to deliver the cate upon oath (which oath the said magistrates without alteraare hereby empowered to administer) without any tion at the next alteration, at the next general quarter sessions sions, on the for the county, riding, or division, of, to the clerk first day there. of the peace for the county, riding, within which such assessment shall be made, of the peace, to be by him filed, in open court, the first day of such sessions, to and kept the clerk of the peace attending such sessions, amongst the to be by him filed and kept amongst the records of the sessions.

same upon oath

quarter ses

records.

rected, or alter

nalty of 51.

§ 4. And be it further enacted, that if any Assessor or assessor shall neglect to deliver such duplicate constable neg lecting to deli so amended, to such chief constable as aforesaid, ver duplicate or if such chief constable, to whom the same as above dishall be delivered, shall neglect to deliver the ing the same, same to such clerk of the peace, at the next liable to a pe general quarter sessions of the peace as aforesaid, or shall wilfully alter or deface any such duplicate; every such assessor and chief constable so offending, shall, for every such offence, and for every such duplicate so neglected to be delivered as aforesaid, forfeit the sum of five

20 Geo.3.c. 17. pounds, to be levied and recovered in the manner hereinafter-mentioned.

At Michaelmas

of the peace,

of sessions, to

examine whe

of all assess

livered;

report, the

court to fine constable

51.

5. And be it further enacted, that at the sessions clerk Michaelmas sessions in every year, the clerk of before the end the peace, or his deputy, attending such sessions, in every county, riding, or division, as ther duplicates aforesaid, shall, before the conclusion of such ments, &c. de- sessions, examine whether the duplicates of all the assessments within such county, riding, or division, shall have been delivered for that year; and if it shall appear that any such duplicates have not been received by or delivered to such clerk of the peace, or his deputy, by the if not, upon his proper chief constables, then and in such case such clerk of the peace, or his deputy, shall report the same to the court, and the court shall where default immediately set and impose the said fine or fines of five pounds upon such chief constables, for the hundred, lathe, or wapentake, within which the parish or place for which such duplicate or duplicates, of the assessment or assessments not whereof clerk returned shall lie; and the said clerk of the to give notice, peace, or his deputy, shall give to such chief and on failure Constables immediate notice of such fine or of payment, fines; and if the same is or are not immediately levied by dis- paid, the justices assembled in the said quarter sessions shall, by order of court, issue a warrant of distress for the recovery thereof, directed to the constable or constables of the respective parishes or places where such chief constables shall live; and such warrant shall be delivered or transmitted by the clerk of the peace, or his deputy, to such constables or one of them, who is and are hereby required to levy such fine or fines, by distress and sale of the goods and chattels of such chief constables, rendering the

of the peace

fines may be

ress, as herein.

overplus (if any) to the owners of such goods 20 Geo.s.c. 17. and chattels, after deducting the reasonable

charges of such distress.

constables

imposed on as

sessors making

default,

and justices to issue warrant of distress, &c. to recover the same; and to

require chief

constables to assessors with 14 days after the sessions.

give notice to

§ 6. Provided always, that if such chief con- In case chief stables shall voluntarily make oath at such ses- make oath that sions, that such duplicate or duplicates was or assessors negwere not delivered to them, or either of them, ver said dupliby such assessor or assessors, then and in such cates to them, case, the said fine or fines, herein-before direct such fines to be ed, shall be set and imposed upon such assessor or assessors, of the parish or place, parishes or places, for which such duplicate or duplicates shall not be returned; and the justices assembled in such quarter sessions shall, by order of court, issue a warrant of distress for the recovery thereof, directed to the constable or constables of such parish or place, or respective parishes or places, or to such other person or persons as such justices shall think proper; and in also shall, by order of court, require the chief constables, or one of them, to give notice to such assessor or assessors, that such fines have been set and imposed; and such chief constables are hereby required to serve such notices upon such assessors within fourteen days next after such sessions; and if such assessors, or an assessor one of them, shall not deliver such duplicate, or the chief constables' receipt for the same, to the clerk of the peace, or his deputy, for such county, riding, or division, within ten days. after being served with such notice, then and in 10 days, fines in such case the said clerk of the peace, or his distress, then to be levied by deputy, shall deliver or transmit such warrant such warrant of distress against the assessor, to the person or be transmitted persons to whom the same shall be directed, to person to who is hereby required to levy the said fine set who is to levy,

Whereupon if

shall not deli.

ver such duplicate or constafor the same to

bles' receipt

the clerk of the peace, &c.with

of distress to

whom directed,

&c.