Militia (City of London) Act 1820

XVI If the Aldermen, &c. neglect to provide Men, or pay or levy Rates, the Commissioners may levy and apply them ; to be made from the last Assessment of the Land Tax or Watch Rate ; and may call for the last Assessments from the Clerk, who shall produce it and give Copies on Penalty of 20l.

And be it further enacted, That if the Alderman or Deputy and Common Councilmen of any Ward, or the major Part of them, shall refuse or neglect to provide all or any of the Men to be raised by such Ward as herein-before directed, or to supply such Vacancies as may happen from the Time of Service of any Man being expired, or from Death or Discharge as aforesaid, according to the Precepts issued to them for that Purpose, or shall neglect or refuse to pay the, Sum of Fifteen Pounds for every Man not so provided or supplied as aforesaid ; and if th6 said Alderman or Deputy and Common Councilmen of any Ward, or the major Part of them, shall neglect or refuse to make, levy, and raise the said Rates, or to assess and levy the Proportion of the Trophy Tax of such Ward, the said Commissioners shall and are hereby further authorized to make, assess, levy, and raise the said Rates, and also the Proportion of the Trophy Tax of such Ward, the Alderman or Deputy and Common Councilmen of which shall make such Default, in like Manner and with the like Powers and Authorities as the said Alderman or Deputy and Common Councilmen are hereby empowered to make, raise, levy, and assess the same ; and the better to enable the said Commissioners to make the said Rates and assess the said Tax, they are hereby authorized and empowered, if they find it requisite and necessary so to do, to call at their Option, either upon the Clerk to the Commissioners of, the Land Tax for the City of London to produce before them the Book or Books containing the last Assessment or Assessments of the Land Tax upon each and every of the Wards in the said City, or upon the several Ward Clerks of the said City, to produce before them the Book or Books containing the last Rate or Rates for defraying the Expence of paving, lighting, and cleansing the said City; and the said Clerk or Clerks is or are hereby respectively required to produce the said Assessments or Rates when called upon, and also to furnish the said Commissioners with Copies of such Parts as may be by them required of him or them, upon receiving a reasonable Compensation or Allowance for his or their Trouble therein ; and in case he or they or any of them shall neglect or refuse to produce such Book or Books, Rate or Rates, or to furnish such Copies, he or they respectively shall, for every such Neglect or Refusal, forfeit and pay not exceeding the Sum of Twenty Pounds; and the said Commissioners shall apply the said Rates when received and recovered, in providing the Quota of Men, or so many of them as shall be wanting, for the Ward so neglecting Or refusing, and to the other Purposes of this Act.