London Streets, etc. Act 1690

XI. Assessment how made for the Highways.

To be levied by Distress.; Amount of Assessment in any one Year.

And whereas there are many Common Highwayes within the said Parishes which cannot be sufficiently amended repaired and supported by meanes of the Lawes now in force without the helpe of this present Act Bee it enacted That for the better amending and repairing the same one or more Assessment or Assessments upon all and every the Inhabitants Owners and Occupiers of Lands Houses Tenements and Hereditaments or any Personall Estate usually ratable to the Poore within any of the said Parishes shall be from time to time made levyed collected and allowed by such person and persons as the said Justices at such their Generall Quarter Sessions shall direct and appoint in that behalfe and the Money thereby raised shall be employed and accounted for according to the Order and Direction of the said Justices for and towards the amending repairing and supporting such Highwayes from time to time as need shall require And the said Assessment shall be levyed by Distresse and Sale of the Goods of every person soe assessed (not paying the same within fourteene dayes after demand) rendring the Overplus of the Value of the Goods soe distrained to the Owner and Owners thereof the necessary Charges of makeing and selling such Distresse being first deducted Provided alwayes That noe such Assessment or Assessments to be made in any one yeare shall exceede the Rate of foure pence in the pound of the yearly value of any Lands Houses Tenements and Hereditaments soe assessed nor the Rate of eight pence for every twenty pounds in Personall Estate.