assessinents

parishes and places lying within the division for which such commissioners shall act, shall cause to be delivered to each of the said assessors, a printed form of an assessment, as set forth in the 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 assessment shall be delivered to the commissioners of the land tax for the county, riding, or division, within which the parish or place for which such assessment shall be made shall lie) cause one of the said duplicates, or fair copy thereof, to be stuck up upon one of the doors of the A duplicate of church or chapel of the parish or place for which such as- to be stuck on sessment shall be made; but in case such assessment shall the door of the parish church, be made for an extra-parochial or any other place, where &c. there is not any church or chapel, then such assessment shall be stuck up upon one of the doors of the church or chapel in a parish next adjoining; and if any person or persons (renting, holding, or occupying, any messuages, lands, or tenements, in any such parish or place) shall rent, hold, or occupy messuages, lands, or tenements, belonging to different owners or proprietors, the same shall be separately and distinctly rated and assessed in such assessments, that the proportion of the land tax to be paid by each separate owner or proprietor respectively may be known and ascertained; 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 Persons enany messuages, lands, or tenements, in such parish or place, whose names entitled to vote as aforesaid, shall not appear or be included are omitted in in such assessment, it shall and may be lawful for such per- may appeal to son 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 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 he is rated; and the Assessments said commissioners, on sufficient cause to be shewn, shall tive, to be amend the duplicates of such assessments, by inserting therein 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; and the An amended said commissioners are hereby required to cause one of the duplicate to be said duplicates so amended (after the same shall be duly the assessors, signed and sealed by the said commissioners, or any three to the clerk of of them) to be returned to the said assessors, or one of the peace at them; and such assessors are hereby required to deliver such duplicate, so amended, within ten days after the receipt thereof, to one of the chief constables of the hundred, lathe, or wapentake, within which the parish or place for which such assessment was made shall lie, taking the receipt of such chief constable for the same, andwhich receipt such chief constable

titled to vote,

assessments,

the commissioners;

where defec

amended.

returned to

and delivered

the next quarter sessions.

Penalty on

assessor, &c.

who shall alter or neglect to deliver any du

plicate as above directed.

Michaelmas

sessions year

ly, the court shall immediately fine the chief con

stables making default.

is hereby required to give; and such chief constable is hereby also required to deliver such duplicate upon oath (which oath the said magistrates are hereby impowered to administer) without any alteration, at the next general quarter sessions of the peace for the county, riding, or division, within which such assessment shall be made, in open court, the first day of such sessions, to the clerk of the peace attending such sessions, to be by him filed and kept among the records of the sessions.

4. AND be it further enacted, That if any assessor shall neglect to deliver such duplicate so amended, to such chief constable as aforesaid, or if such chief constable, to whom the same shall be delivered, shall neglect to deliver the same to such clerk of the peace at the next 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 pounds, to be levied and recovered in the manner herein-after mentioned.

5. AND be it further enacted, That at the Michaelmas If clerk of the sessions in every year, the clerk of the peace, or his deputy, peace shall not receive all the attending such sessions, in every county, riding, or division, duplicates before the end of as aforesaid, shall, before the conclusion of such 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 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 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 returned shall lie; and the said clerk of the peace, or his deputy, shall give to such chief constables On failure of immediate notice of such fine or fines; and if the same is or may be levied are not immediately paid, the justices assembled in the said by distress. 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 overplus (if any) to the owners of such goods and chattels, after deducting the reasonable charges of such distress.

payment, fines

In case chief constables make oath

that assessors neglected to

deliver said

duplicates to them,

6. PROVIDED always, That if such chief constables shall voluntarily make oath at such sessions, that such duplicate or duplicates was or were not delivered to them, or either of them, by such assessor or assessors, then, and in such case, the said fine or fines, herein-before directed, 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 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 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 such case the said clerk of the peace, or his deputy, then the fines shall deliver or transmit such warrant of distress against the shall be levied assessor, to the person or persons to whom the same shall sessors, except they deliver be directed, who is hereby required to levy the said fine set the duplicates, upon such assessor by distress and sale of the goods and &c. within 10' chattels of such assessor or assessors, rendering the over- tice: plus (if any) to the owner or owners, after deducting the reasonable charges of such distress.

on the said as

days after no

to the clerk of

stables' re

7. PROVIDED always, That if such assessors, or either of But if assessors, within them, shall, within the said ten days after such notice, pro- said time, duce to the said clerk of the peace, or his deputy, the receipt shall produce of such chief constables, or one of them, for such duplicate, the peace the then and in such case such clerk of the peace, or his de- chief conputy, shall deliver or transmit the warrants against such ceipt, then the chief constables, or such of them who shall have signed such fine shall be receipt, to the proper constable or constables to whom the constables. same shall be directed, that the same may be executed as aforesaid, and the warrant or warrants for levying the fine or fines upon such assessor or assessors shall not be executed.

levied on said

paid to the

8. AND be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the fines to be set and imposed upon such chief constables and assessors as aforesaid, shall, after the same shall be so levied and recovered, be, by the person or persons who shall levy and recover the same, paid to the treasurer Fines to be of the county, riding, or division, wherein the same shall be treasurer of levied or recovered, or the lawful deputy of such treasurer, the county, to be applied and disposed of as part of the county stock, under the direction of the sessions of such county, riding, or division.

&c.

ments are not

clerk of the

9. AND be it further enacted, That whenever any assess- When assess. ment shall not have been made by the assessor or assessors made, and reof any parish or place, and returned to the chief constable, turned to the and by the chief constable to the clerk of the peace, by the peace, justices neglect or default of any person concerned therein, it shall inay order and may be lawful for the said justices at the said quarter made and resessions, or any two justices for such county, riding, or di- turned forthvision, out of sessions, to order and direct such assessment

them to be

with.

or assessments forthwith to be made and returned in manner aforesaid; and such assessments, so made and returned, shall have the same and the like effect as if made and returned at the time and in the manner herein-before directed.

10. AND be it further enacted, That if any person or persons shall be dissatisfied, or shall think himself or themselves aggrieved by any determination of the said commissioners of the land-tax, it shall and may be lawful for such person or persons to appeal against such determination to the general quarter sessions of the peace for the county, riding, or division, within which such commissioners shall act, which shall happen next after the cause of complaint shall have giving 10 days arisen, giving ten days notice of such appeal to one of the

Persons aggrieved may appeal to the quarter sessions;

notice.

commissioners signing the duplicate of the said assessment, and also to one of the assessors of the parish or place where the estate belonging to the person or persons who shall think himself or themselves aggrieved, shall lie; and the justices assembled in such sessions are hereby authorized and required, by examination upon oath (which oath the said justices are hereby authorized to administer), to hear and determine the matter of such appeal, and to amend Justices may such assessments where they shall think necessary; and

award costs.

Any person, whose name, on appeal,

also to award such costs as to them in their discretion shall seem reasonable; and by their order or warrant to levy the costs which shall be so awarded, by distress and sale of the goods and chattels of the person or persons against whom the same shall be so awarded, rendering the overplus (if any) to the owner or owners, after deducting the reasonable charges of such distress."

11. AND be it further enacted, That if the said commissioners, upon any appeal before them, and also the said justices in sessions upon any appeal before them, shall find it requisite to insert in such assessments, or the duplicates shall appear to have been im- thereof, the names of any person or persons, which shall approperly left pear to such commissioners, or to such justices, to have out of any assessment,shall been improperly omitted, such person or persons shall be be deemed to taken and deemed to be rated in such assessment or ashave been rated therein. sessments, as effectually, to all intents and purposes, as if the name or names of such person or persons had been originally inserted in such assessment by the assessors. 12. AND whereas disputes have arisen, whether the hustitled to bands of women entitled to the dower or thirds, at common the estates of law, out of the estates of their former husbands, shall be their former entitled to vote in the election of members of parliament, husbands, may vote in respect unless dower has been assigned and set out, by metes and thereof, al- bounds, for such women; be it therefore further enacted, said dower has That where any woman, the widow of any person tenant in

Husbands of women en

dower out of

though the

not been set

out by metes

or bounds.

fee or in tail shall be entitled to dower or thirds, by the common law, out of the freehold estate which her husband died seised or possessed of, and shall intermarry with a second husband, such second husband shall be entitled to vote in respect of such dower or thirds, if such dower or thirds shall be of the clear yearly value of forty shillings, or upwards, although the same has not been assigned or set

out by metes or bounds, if such second husband shall be in the actual receipt of the profits of such dower, and the estate from whence the same issues is rated to, and contributes to the land-tax in the name of the actual owner of the lands or tenements, from whence such dower or thirds arises or is

sues.

may be in

13. AND be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That it shall and may be lawful for all and every person or persons, at all seasonable times, to resort to and inspect the said duplicates, or any part thereof, in the hands of Duplicates such clerk of the peace, or his deputy, paying for every spected. search into, or inspection of, such duplicates, or any part thereof, one shilling, and no more; and the said clerk of the peace, or his deputy, is hereby required and directed, Clerk of the upon demand, to deliver a true copy or copies of all such peace to de signed duplicates, or of such part or parts of them, or any of them, copies of of which a copy shall be demanded, to any person or per- demand, duplicates, on sons who shall demand or desire the same, (such copy or copies to be signed by such clerk of the peace, or his deputy, purporting the same to be a true copy or true copies,) and for which copy or copies such clerk of the peace, or his deputy, shall be paid at and after the rate of sixpence, and no more, for every three hundred words or figures, and so in and being paid proportion for any lesser number of words or figures; which 6d. for every said duplicates, and also a true copy of them, or any of them, or any part of them, signed as aforesaid, and also the duplicate of any assessment in the possession of the commissioners of the land-tax, or in the possession of the receiver-general of the county, or a copy of the said duplicates, signed by such commissioners, and purporting the same to be a true copy, shall, at all times and in all places, be allowed and admitted as legal evidence of such assessments, &c. to be Duplicates, certificates, memorials, and books of entries, in all cases deemed legal whatsoever; and such copy shall be delivered in reasonable evidence. time after the same shall be demanded.

370 words.

peace, or his

election of a

candidate :

date to pay

14. AND be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, Clerk of the That such clerk of the peace of every county, riding, or deputy, to atdivision, in whose office such duplicates shall be filed as tend at every aforesaid, or his deputy, shall, upon reasonable notice, at- knight of the tend at every election of a knight or knights of the shire shire, with orifor such county, with the said original duplicates, at the cates, at the ginal duplirequest of any candidate, or the agent or agents of any request of any candidates; the person or persons requesting the same making such clerk of the peace, or his deputy, a satisfac- Such candition for such attendance, at and after the rate of two him 21. 2s. for guineas for each day of his attendance at such election, to- each day's atgether with an allowance of one shilling and sixpence a is. 6d. per mile for the costs and charges he may be at, or put unto, mile for train his journey from the place of his abode to and from the charges. place of such election. 15. AND be it further enacted, That after issuing any writ any writ for or precept for the election of a knight or knights of the county mem shire for any county within that part of Great Britain called ber, the clerk England, or the dominion of Wales, the clerk of the peace, shall attend or his deputy, shall, and he is hereby required to attend, gratis, from 9

tendance, and

velling

After issuing

election of a

of the peace

to 3 each day,