Highway Act 1835

XXXI Errors in Rates may be rectified.

And be it further enacted, That whenever it shall appear to the said Surveyor as aforesaid that there has been any Omission or Error in any Rate or Assessment made in pursuance of this Act of or in the Name of any Person, Parson, or Vicar, or of any House, Shop, Warehouse, Coach-house, Stable, Cellar, Vault, Building, Workshop, Manufactory, Garden Ground, Land, Tenement, Wood, Tithe, Mines, Pits or Quarries of any Mineral, Stone, or other Matter whatsoever, or Hereditament, liable to be rated for the Purposes of this Act, it shall be lawful for the said Surveyor as aforesaid, with the Consent and Approbation of the Justices at a Special Sessions for the Highways, to cause to be added or corrected in the said Rate or Assessment the Name of the Person, Parson, or Vicar omitted or Erroneously stated, and a Description of the Property in respect of which he ought to be rated; and every such Addition or Correction made in any of the said Rates, and signed by such Justices, shall be as valid and effectual as if the same had been Part of the original Rate, at the Time when it was first made.