Taxation Act 1677

XXXI. Commissioners for Middlesex and Westminster may; appoint Assessors, who are to ascertain and rate Offices, Townships, &c. chargeable, and to return the same to the Commissioners.

Such Assessors to deliver in their Surveys signed to Commissioners.; Commissioners at General Meeting, on Perusal of Surveys, are to cast up the true Revenue of the County, &c. and to apportion a Pound Rate.

And whereas the County of Midlesex and Citty of Westminster are raised in the monethly Assesments by reason of the new buildings lately erected and that Offices are made chargeable towards the payment of such Assesments, To the end that an equall Rate may be made and imposed upon the severall Divisions Parishes and Hambletts within the said County and Citty Bee it enacted by this present Parlyament and the authority thereof That the; said Commissioners appointed for the said County and Citty of Westminster or any three of them shall (if they shall thinke it fitt) cause two or three of the honest and able Inhabitants in the severall and respective Parishes Towneshipps and places within the said County and Citty to be named and appointed Assessors who (or any two of them) are to ascertaine and rate the yearely vallue and proffitts of all Offices belonging to the Courts at Westminster and other Offices chargeable by this Act towards the payment of the said summe sett upon the said County and Citty and all Towneshipps Parishes and Places for which they are appointed Assessors and to returne the same to [X1 y^e] said Commissioners or to such person or persons as shall be appointed to receive the same, which said Assessors are to deliver in their severall Surveyes perfected and subscribed by them unto the said Commissioners or unto such person or persons as shall be appointed by them or any three of them to receive the same two or three dayes at least before the second generall meeting of the said Co[m]missioners to the end that the said Co[m]missioners may deliver, in all the severall Surveyes to be made throughout the said County at the said second generall meeting at which said generall meeting the said Commissioners or the major part of them then present shall upon view and perusall of the said severall Surveys cast up the true revenue and yearely proffitts of the whole County Citty and Offices aforesaid to the end that an equall Pound rate may be apportioned upon every Office chargeable by this Act Division Hundred Towneshipp and Parish according to the proportion and summe of money charged upon the said County and Citty by vertue of this present Act which the said Commissioners or the major part of them then and there assembled are by vertue of this Act authorized and appointed to proportion and make accordingly.

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