Form of renewed Contract of Composition for Assessed Taxes. ESTABLISHMENT. Servants Amount of Duties. Schedules C. N°I. Know all Men, That we, Two of the Commissioners acting in the Execution of the Acts in relation to Assessed Taxes for the Division of in the County of have contracted and agreed with A. B. Assessed Taxes, as stated in the Mar- Upon Servants, Horses, and other Articles of Establishment on the Amount expressed therein, together with the additional Rate granted by the said Act. Which several Amounts are to be 1st Instalment on or before the And so yearly during the Term of The Condition of the above Composition is, That the above-named shall duly pay or cause to be paid to the Collectors for the said or One of them, on or before the Days above mentioned, upon Demand, the yearly Sum of by Two Instalments, in even Portions, taking their or his Receipt in Writing for the same; otherwise the said Composition shall be levied of the Goods and Chattels of the said or sued for and recovered by any of the Ways and Means by which the Monies due on Assessments may be sued for and recovered. N.B. With the Consent of the Commissioners the Collector of the Parish may witness the Signature of the Party to the Contract. Form Form of Contract of Compositions under the Act of the Fifth William the Fourth. The Condition of the above Composition is, That the above-named shall duly pay or cause to be paid to the Collectors for the said or One of them, on or before the Days above mentioned, upon Demand, the yearly Sum of by Two Instalments, in even Portions, taking their or his Receipt in Writing for the same; otherwise the said Composition shall be levied of the Goods and Chattels of the said or sued for and recovered by any of the Ways and Means by which the Monies due on Assessments may be sued for and recovered. 7 G. 4. c. 62. N.B.-With the Consent of the Commissioners the Collector of the Parish may witness the Signature of the Party to the Contract. CA P. LV. An Act to amend Three Acts, made respectively in the Seventh Reign of His late Majesty King George the Fourth, intituled An Act to make Provision for the uniform Valuation of Lands ' and Tenements in the several Baronies, Parishes, and other Divi'sions of Counties in Ireland, for the Purpose of the more equally levying of the Rates and Charges upon such Baronies, Parishes, ' and Divisions respectively; and the said Act was amended by Two Acts passed respectively in the First and Second Years and in the Second and Third Years of the Reign of His present Majesty: And whereas it is expedient, for the Acceleration of the said Valuation, and for other Purposes, that the said Act 'should be further amended:' Be it therefore enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, That it shall and may be lawful for the Commissioner of Commissioner Valuation appointed in or for any County or Counties under the of Valuation Provisions of the said recited Acts to nominate and appoint such may appoint Number of Persons to be Valuators for each such County as the Lord Lieutenant or other Chief Governor or Governors of Ireland as the Lord shall from Time to Time fix and appoint; any thing in the said Lieutenant recited Acts limiting the Number of Persons so to be appointed to the contrary hereof notwithstanding. such Number of Valuators shall fix and determine. Committee of Valuation to be II. And be it enacted, That where an Appeal shall have been made to any Committee of Appeal, under the Provisions of the said recited Acts, by or on behalf of any Parish, or the Owners or Occupiers of Land within any Townland of any Parish, against the Valuation or any Part of the Valuation of the same, or of any other Parish or Townland or Townlands within the same Barony, no Appeal and it shall appear to such Committee of Appeal that just Cause shall have been has been shown to warrant such Committee to direct that a new lodged in reValuation shall be made of any such Parish or Parishes, Town- spect thereof. land or Townlands, in respect of or on behalf whereof such Appeal may have been made, then and in such Case it shall and may be lawful for the said Committee of Appeal, with the Consent of the Commissioner of Valuation for such County, or of his Assessor, to direct that a new Valuation shall in like Manner be made of any other Parish or Parishes, Townland or Townlands, within the same Barony, the Valuation whereof shall appear to the said Committee to have been defective or erroneous in the same respects, or to which the same Ground of Appeal may appear justly applicable, although no such Appeal shall have been made in respect of or on behalf of such other Parish or Parishes, Townland or Townlands. When the has been made a List of the III. And be it further enacted, That when and as the Valuation of each or any Barony within each County shall have been made by such Valuators, and transmitted to the Commissioner of Valuation for such County, and decided on by the Committee of Appeal appointed under the Provisions of the said recited Act of the Seventh Year of the Reign of His late Majesty, the said Commissioner of Valuation shall prepare and make out, in the Form of the Schedule to this Act annexed, a List or Table of the several Parishes within such Barony, and of the several Townlands or other Sub-denominations or Divisions of Land within pared and each such Parish, distinguishing the Number of Acres contained published. in every such Parish and Townland or other Sub-denomination or several Parishes and the Divisions of Land shall be pre within them During the Period herein described all County Cess, &c. shall be levied according to the Propor tions therein specified; but not to affect the relative Proportion borne by such Barony. Repealing so much of recited Act as autho rizes the altering of the Amount of Valuation of any Barony as compared with another Barony. or Division as aforesaid, and the Value of the Land and Houses in each such Parish or Townland, or other Sub-denomination or Division respectively, according to the Survey and Valuation thereof so decided upon; and each such List or Table shall be signed by the said Commissioner of Valuation and Three Members of the said Committee of Appeal, and shall be transmitted, so signed, to the Office of the Chief Secretary of the said Lord Lieutenant or other Chief Governor or Governors of Ireland; and thereupon it shall and may be lawful for such Lord Lieutenant or other Chief Governor or Governors, if he or they shall so think fit, to direct such List and Valuation, so signed as aforesaid, to be published in the Dublin Gazette; and from and after the End of the Assizes next ensuing the Day of such Publication, and until the End of the Assizes next ensuing the Day on which the List and Valuation of all the Baronies within the same County, as completed and finally agreed on by the Committee of Revision appointed under the Provisions of the said recited Acts, shall have been published in the said Dublin Gazette in the Manner and Form by the said recited Acts prescribed, but no longer, all Grand Jury Rates, and the usual and accustomed Proportion of all County Cess Charges whatsoever, imposed or to be imposed on such Barony by Presentments of the Grand Jury, or to be raised off such Barony, or any Parish and Division thereof, and all Parish Rates imposed or to be imposed or levied off any Parish or Townland or other Sub-denomination or Division of such Barony, under the Authority of any Law or Statute, shall be assessed and levied off such Barony, and off every Parish, Townland, or other Sub-denomination or Division therein, according to the Proportions specified in such List and Valuation so to be signed by the Commissioner of Valuation and Three Members of the Committee of Appeal, and published as herein-before directed. IV. Provided always, and be it enacted, That the Publication of the List and Valuation of any Barony under the Provisions of this Act shall not alter or affect the relative Proportion of County Cess or Charges which by any Laws or Usage may be or have been borne by such Barony as compared with any other Barony or Baronies. V. And whereas it is enacted by the said recited Act of the Seventh Year of the Reign of His late Majesty, that in case it shall happen that any Committee of Revision shall alter the Amount of the Valuation of any Barony, as compared with another Barony, either by increasing or diminishing such Amount, such Alteration in the Valuation of any Barony shall not affect the proportionate Valuations of the several Parishes or Townlands within such Barony with respect to each other, but that the Valuation of each and every such Parish and Townland respectively shall be altered so that each may bear to cach the same relative Proportion as was originally fixed, or. as was confirmed or allowed by the Committee of Appeal: And whereas it may happen that the Amount of a Valuation of a Barony may be altered by the said Committee of Revision on a Principle or for a Cause applicable to One or more Divisions ' of of such Barony, and not to all Divisions of such Barony; and it is therefore necessary that Power should be given to such Com'mittee to direct the Increase or Diminution of the Valuation of any Sub-denomination or Division of a Barony as well as of the whole Barony;' be it therefore enacted, That the herein-before recited Provision of the said Act of the Seventh Year of the Reign of His late Majesty shall be and the same is hereby repealed. Valuation of VI. And be it enacted, That whensoever any such Committee Committee of Revision shall think fit to alter the Amount of the Valuation of Revision of any Barony as compared with any other Barony it shall and may alter the may be lawful for them to alter the Amount of the Valuation of any Division any Parish or Parishes, Townland or Townlands, or other Division of a Barony, of such Barony, and the Proportion originally fixed or confirmed as well as of or allowed by the Committee of Appeal of such Barony between the whole. the several Parishes and Townlands of such Barony, in such Manner and to such Extent as the said Committee shall think just with regard to the Reason or Principle on which the gross Amount of the Valuation of such Barony may have been altered by them. VII. And be it enacted, That all fractional Parts of a Pound Fractions of Sterling may be rejected from the total Value of any Barony, a Pound may Parish, Manor, or other Denomination as stated in any List and be rejected, &c. Valuation prepared under Authority of the said recited Acts or this Act, for the Purpose of computing the Proportions in which the same shall be respectively rated. tion of Barony is completed, Commissioner to lodge a Copy of Field Book and a Field Map in Office of Treasurer of County. VIII. And whereas it is desirable that the said Valuation When Valuashould be made available to the Purpose of Applotment, as well as to ascertain the Proportions in which Grand Jury Cess and Parish Rates shall be assessed upon the several Divisions ⚫ and Subdivisions of each County;' be it therefore enacted, That when and so soon as the Valuation of all the Parishes within any Barony shall be completed the Commissioners of Valuation shall make out a Copy of the Field Book of each Parish, and shall make out a Field Map, showing the several Portions of Land which may have been separately valued, and distinguishing and numbering the same so as to correspond with the said Field Book; and the said Commissioners shall deliver such Copies of the Field Book and Maps, attested by his Signature, to the Treasurer of the County, who shall keep the same in his Office, there to remain open to public Inspection; and any Owner or Occupier of Land within such Parish shall be at liberty to make Copies thereof or Extracts therefrom without Fee or Reward. IX. And be it enacted, That every such Treasurer shall furnish Copies of such Field Books, as and when the Valuation therein contained shall have been confirmed or amended and finally agreed on by the said Committees of Appeal and Revision respectively of such County, in manner by the said recited Acts or by this Act provided, and of such Field Maps, marked and numbered to correspond with such Field Books, to any Person or Persons requiring the same for the Applotment of Grand Jury Cess; and such Copies shall be prepared under such Regulations as Treasurer to furnish Copies of Field Books quiring same for Applotment of Grand Jury to Persons re Cess. |