illegal. And further take notice, that you are to produce at the time of hearing this appeal, the said rate, purporting to have been made on the 25th day of May, 1830, as aforesaid. And also, all the rates or assessments made for the relief of the poor, repair of the highways, and cleansing the streets of the said several parishes, since the year 1828. Dated the 6th day of October, 1830.

Your's, &c.

A. B. C. D. &c.

Attorney for the appellants, the Gas Light and Gas Company.

N. B. On hearing the appeal, the sessions confirmed the rate.

36. Petition of

appeal against a
poor's rate (a).

To the Worshipful His Majesty's Justices of the Peace, in and for the county in their general quarter sessions of the peace, assembled.

of

The Petition and Appeal of A. B., an inhabitant, assessed to the poor's rate of
in the said county.
the parish of

Sheweth,

That a rate or assessment was made on or about the

day of

last past, and published [or said to be published] in the church

day of

lest

of the said parish on or about Sunday, the
past, by the churchwardens and overseers of the poor of the said parish, and for
other the purposes therein mentioned, by virtue whereof your petitioner and
other inhabitants of the said parish, are charged and assessed in divers large
sums of money for the purposes aforesaid.

That your petitioner is in and by the said rate assessed for the rateable property occupied by him in the said parish, at a larger sum of money than he ought to be assessed at, in respect of the annual value of the same; and also that your petitioner [state the other causes of appeal, as in the notice].

That the names of E. F. and G. H., persons occupying rateable property in the said parish, are omitted in the said rate or assessment, and are not charged or assessed in the said rate for two messuages, tenements, or dwelling-houses, which they respectively occupy within the said parish of

Your petitioner, therefore, conceiving himself to be aggrieved by the said rate or assessment, doth hereby appeal to your worships against the same, and requests that a day may be appointed, in this present session, for the hearing and determining the said appeal, and that you will thereupon quash the said rate or alter and amend the same in such manner, and grant to your petitioner such relief in the premises, as to you shall seem meet.

And your petitioner will pray, &c.

E. F., Solicitor to the Petitioner.

37. Order for

hearing appeal,
appointing

time, &c.

to wit.

At the general quarter sessions of the peace, of our lord the king,
holden in and for the county of
at the sessions-house for
day of

the

the said county, on in the year of the reign of our sovereign lord George the Fourth, by the grace of God, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, and in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and It is ordered by this court, that the churchwardens and overseers of the poor of the parish of in this county, have notice of the within appeal, and that they and all persons concerned do attend this court at the sessions-house aforesaid, on instant, at the hour of nine in the forenoon of the same day, to hear and abide the judgment and deter mination of the said court, touching the said appeal.

next, the

day of

By the Court,

(a) This petition and the following order are required on an appeal in the county of Middlesex. In most counties the petition is dispensed with, the entry of the appeal with the clerk of the peace

being deemed sufficient; and semble, that as an appeal is matter of right, there can be no ground, in any case, to require a petition.

To the Churchwardens and Overseers of the Poor of the parish of

county of

and also to

and

in the

Take notice that inhabitants and occupiers of messuages, and rated as lands, tenements, and hereditaments in the said parish of such in the rate or assessment hereinafter mentioned, do intend, at the next general quarter sessions of the peace, to be holden at

on

the

the

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in and for the said to prosecute, and try an holden at

38. Notice of trial of an appeal against poor's rate, which appeal had been several times res

day

pited.

county of
day of
appeal entered at the general quarter sessions of the peace,
aforesaid, on
day of
and there respited by the jus-
tices until the then next sessions; and which appeal has been further respited from
sessions to sessions, until the said sessions, to be holden on the said
against a rate or assessment, intituled, "An assessment, &c.," and
two of the justices of the peace in and for the
the grounds of which said appeal

and

day of

of
allowed by
said county, on the
are fully set forth and declared in the notice thereof, under my hand, bearing
date the

day of

Dated this

day of

Attorney for the above named

A. B.,

the appellants.

the Churchwardens and Overseers of the Poor of the parish of ounty of and also to E. F., esquire, G. H., I. K., L. M., N. O., P. Q., [naming several others.] Take notice, that A. B., and C. D., inhabitants and occupiers of messuages, peal against a lands, tenements, and hereditaments, in the said parish of such in the rate or assessment hereinafter mentioned, do intend, at the next general quarter sessions of the peace, to be holden at

county of appeal entered at the last general quarter sessions of the peace, holden at aforesaid, on last past, and there respited by the justices until the then next sessions, against a rate or assessment, intituled, an assessment for the necessary relief of the poor, and for the other purposes also on certain in the several acts of parliament mentioned relating to the poor, for the parish

overseers, and

persons either day of not rated or un

being the second rate at one shilling in the pound," derrated.
clerks, two of his

day

in the county of in the year and allowed by the reverend Majesty's justices of the peace in and for the said county, on the of one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one. And the grounds of such appeal are, that it is not sufficiently distinguished, and doth not appear in and by the said rate or assessment, in respect of what property the said rate is made and assessed upon the said A. B. and C. D., and upon the said G. H., 1. K., &c., and other inhabitants and occupiers in the said parish. And because the said rate is not made from any correct, fair, and impartial estimate of the property assessed, with reference to the difference in value, quality, situation, and other particulars, but is throughout erroneous and defeclive in principle.

And because the said A. B. and C. D., are by the said rate assessed for the messuages, lands, tenements, and premises, occupied by them respectively, in the said parish of with reference to the annual value of the same, at larger sums than they ought to be assessed at, in comparison with the sums at which the said G. H., I. K., &c., are by the said rate severally assessed for the messuages, lands, tenements, and premises in their occupations, with reference to the annual value thereof respectively.

And because the said G. H., I. K., &c., are by the said rate severally assessed for the messuages, lands, tenements, and premises in their respective occupations, at less sums, and in a different proportion than they ought to be assessed, in comparison with the sums at which the said A. B. and C. D., and other inhabitants and occupiers are assessed for the messuages, lands, tenements, and premises in their respective occupations in the said parish.

And because the said A. B. is rated and assessed for a larger quantity of land than is in his occupation in the said parish, and for a certain plantation which is not rateable property.

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illegal. And further take notice, that you are to
this appeal, the said rate, purporting to have be
1830, as aforesaid. And also, all the rates
of the poor, repair of the highways, and e'
parishes, since the year 1828. Dated

Attorney for the
N. B. On hearing the app

36. Petition of To the Worshipful His
in their ge
The Petition and A

appeal against a
poor's rate (a).

Votice of of an apagainst a

's rate, un41 Geo. 3,

23, s. 4, to Marchwardens

am overseers.

unds of peal.

the parish of
Sheweth,

That a rate

ons having rateable to the said rate for the illegally struck out of or ouses and gardens in their

and illegally rated for a certain by him, and in the respective occu

ated and assessed in the said rate for occupation in the said parish.

rated and assessed in the said rate for or in ine or engine in his use and occupation, in the

and O. P. are not, or one of them is not, rated for the house and garden in their occupation in the

R. S. is not rated and assessed in the said rate, fər a ¿land, stables, and premises, in his occupation in the sand

e said T. U. and Y. Z. are not rated and assessed in the said barns in their respective occupations in the said parish. of the said se the said G. H., &c., are altogether omitted to be rated and past, by the said rate, for the cottages, tenements, gardens, and premises, in etive occupations in the said parish, and for which they ought to have other i rally rated and assessed.

other th

sums

because the said A. B. and C. D. are respectively over-rated for the 7 ages, lands, tenements, and premises, in their respective occupations in pead parish.

And because the said G., H., &c. are severally under-rated for the messunges, zás, tenements, and premises, in their respective occupations in the said parish. And you the said churchwardens and overseers, are hereby required to produce an the hearing of the said appeal, the hereinbefore mentioned rate or assessment, and the books or minutes in which has been entered or copied, the scheme or plan wpon which the said rate or assessment has been made, and all other rates and assessments for the relief of the poor of the said parish, from the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-seven to the date of this notice, together with the overseers' books, vestry books, and all other books, accounts, and documents whatsoever, in which the several proceedings of the said parish, with respect in rating and assessing to the relief of the poor of the said parish, have been usually entered for the space of ten years last past.

Dated this sixteenth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one.
Attorney for the above-named A. B. and C. D., the appellants.

To the Churchwardens and Overseers of the Poor of the parish of

in the county of

This is to give you and every of you notice, that I,

being an inhabi

tant and occupier of certain lands and tenements, [or, “a certain messuage and
premises,”] in the parish of
in the county of

at

and being rated

as such, in a certain rate and assessment, intituled “an assessment,” &c., [set out the title of the rate,] do intend, at the next general quarter sessions of the peace, to be holden in and for the said county of in the said county, to try a certain appeal by me, the said as appellant, lodged and entered at the last general quarter sessions of the peace, holden at aforesaid, in and for the county aforesaid, against the said rate or assessment; and that the grounds of such appeal are, that C. D. E. and E. F., &c., are in the said rate or assessment respectively under-rated in respect of the yearly value of their respective messuages, lands, tenements, and premises, by them which appellant occupied in the said parish of and also that I, the said

the said rate or assessment over-rated, in respect of the yearly value of the lands, tenements, and premises, by me occupied in the parish aforesaid, and also that it doth not appear in and by the said rate or assessment, in respect of what an relief of the that the said rate or assessment doth not appear to be made for the relief of the property the said rate is made and assessed upon me the said

other purposes

poor.

and also

ach and every of you, notice, that it is intended, at essions of the peace, to be holden in and for the aursday, the thirtieth day of April, instant, to try a vy or on the behalf of Sir R. B. B., bart., at the last ns of the peace holden at N., aforesaid, in the county certain rate or assessment, intituled "An assessment for f of the poor, and for the other purposes in the several acts entioned, relating to the poor of the parish of C., in the county nd assessed the seventh day of November, one thousand eight twenty-eight, being the sixth rate, at one shilling in the pound, sent year, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight," for the , amongst other reasons:

Because the said rate or assessment has not been made, published and sed, in due course of law.

2nd. Because the said Sir R. B. B., is therein rated and assessed for property, nder the description of "saleable underwoods," though he does not occupy any property of that kind within the parish of C., aforesaid.

3rd. Because the said Sir R. B. B. does not occupy any property of that description within the said parish, which is, by law, subject to assessments for and towards the poor's relief.

4th. Because the said Sir R. B. B., if liable to be rated and assessed as the occupier of any such property, within the said parish, is overrated, in respect of the yearly value or profits thereof.

Eight several grounds of appeal.

5th. Because the names and descriptions of the woods or coppices, in respect of which the said Sir R. B. B. is rated, are in the said rate or assessment omitted, and because it doth not appear, in and by the said rate or assessment, in respect of what particular woods or coppices, or for what quantity of saleable underwoods the said rate or assessment is made or assessed upon the said Sir R. B. B. 6th. Because you, the Right Honourable L., Lord S., and you, the said Right Honourable the Earl of W. and N., are respectively omitted to be rated or assessed in the said rate or assessment, in respect of certain lands occupied by you respectively, and in respect of the profits of your respective saleable underwoods, in the said parish.

7th. Because you, the said T. J., J. T., T. L., E. P., T. B., Widow W., T. S., T. S. B., S. B., and E. C., are respectively omitted to be rated or assessed in the said rate or assessment, for or in respect of the messuages, houses, lands, buildings, and premises, occupied by you respectively within the said parish.

8th. Because you, the said T. C., are overrated, and you, the said J. B., T. B., M. P., and W. H., and each and every of you, are and is respectively underrated, in and by the said rate, in respect of the yearly value of the several messuages, lands, and premises, occupied by you respectively within the said parish, and are thereby respectively rated and assessed in an undue proportion, with reference to the assessment made upon other inhabitants, and occupiers of lands, houses, and other rateable premises, within the said parish.

And, lastly, because the rate and assessment is, in other respects, illegal, unequal, partial, oppressive, and unjust.

And I do hereby give you, the said churchwarden and overseers, notice to produce, at the hearing of the said appeal, the said pretended rate or assessment, and all other rates and assessments made for the relief of the poor of the said parish, for the twenty years last preceding the date hereof; likewise certain valuations or regulating levies made by J. L., J. C., J. C., and T. B., some or

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Notice to produce.

40. Notice of trial of an appeal against a poor's rate, un der 41 Geo.3,

c. 23, s. 4, to churchwardens and overseers.

Grounds of appeal.

Some underrated, and appellant overrated, and

that the property,

in respect of which appellant is rated, is not

stated in the rate,

and that the rate

was made for other purposes

And because the said L. M., O. P., &c., being persons having rateable property in the said parish, and being liable to payment to the said rate for the relief of the poor of the said parish, are unduly and illegally struck out of or not charged with the payment of the rate for the houses and gardens in their respective occupations in the said parish.

And because the said R. S. is improperly and illegally rated for a certain messuage, homestall, lands, and premises let by him, and in the respective occupations of the said T. U. V. W., &c.

And because the said G. H. is not rated and assessed in the said rate for certain lands called Brackland, in his occupation in the said parish.

And because the said I. K. is not rated and assessed in the said rate for or in respect of a certain weighing machine or engine in his use and occupation, in the said parish.

And because the said L. M. and O. P. are not, or one of them is not, rated and assessed in the said rate for the house and garden in their occupation in the said parish.

And because the said R. S. is not rated and assessed in the said rate, for a certain close of pasture land, stables, and premises, in his occupation in the said parish.

And because the said T. U. and Y. Z. are not rated and assessed in the said rate, for certain barns in their respective occupations in the said parish.

And because the said G. H., &c., are altogether omitted to be rated and assessed in the said rate, for the cottages, tenements, gardens, and premises, in their respective occupations in the said parish, and for which they ought to have been severally rated and assessed.

And because the said A. B. and C. D. are respectively over-rated for the messuages, lands, tenements, and premises, in their respective occupations in the said parish.

And because the said G., H., &c. are severally under-rated for the messuages, lands, tenements, and premises, in their respective occupations in the said parish. And you the said churchwardens and overseers, are hereby required to produce on the hearing of the said appeal, the hereinbefore mentioned rate or assessment, and the books or minutes in which has been entered or copied, the scheme or plan upon which the said rate or assessment has been made, and all other rates and assessments for the relief of the poor of the said parish, from the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-seven to the date of this notice, together with the overseers' books, vestry books, and all other books, accounts, and documents whatsoever, in which the several proceedings of the said parish, with respect to rating and assessing to the relief of the poor of the said parish, have been usually entered for the space of ten years last past.

Dated this sixteenth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one.
Attorney for the above-named A. B. and C. D., the appellants.

To the Churchwardens and Overseers of the Poor of the parish of

in the county of

This is to give you and every of you notice, that I,
tant and occupier of certain lands and tenements, [or,
premises,"] in the parish of
in the county of

being an inhabia certain messuage and

and being rated assessment," &c., [set quarter sessions of the

at

in the said as appellant, lodged and

as such, in a certain rate and assessment, intituled "an
out the title of the rate,] do intend, at the next general
peace, to be holden in and for the said county of
county, to try a certain appeal by me, the said
entered at the last general quarter sessions of the peace, holden at
aforesaid, in and for the county aforesaid, against the said rate or assessment;
and that the grounds of such appeal are, that C. D. E. and E. F., &c., are in
the said rate or assessment respectively under-rated in respect of the yearly
value of their respective messuages, lands, tenements, and premises, by them
occupied in the said parish of

and also that I, the said

am in

the said rate or assessment over-rated, in respect of the yearly value of the lands, tenements, and premises, by me occupied in the parish aforesaid; and also that it doth not appear in and by the said rate or assessment, in respect of what property the said rate is made and assessed upon me the said

and also

than relief of the that the said rate or assessment doth not appear to be made for the relief of the

poor.