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tember in any Year, and that such Resolution shall be confirmed by the Town Council at their First Meeting to be held after the annual Municipal Election, and such Assessment may be imposed and recovered in manner herein-after provided, and the Proceeds thereof 5 shall be applied by such Town Council for the Purpose of Education within such Burgh, in such Way as they may think fit.

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37. And in regard to the Payment of the Salaries of School- Contribumasters, and the Expense of School Buildings, the Committee of tions and Advances by Council shall, subject to such Rules as shall from Time to Time be the Com10 prescribed by them, contribute, out of Funds voted by Parliament mittee of for that Purpose, a Sum equal to the Amount which may be raised for Privy Counthe said Purposes by the Heritors or School Committee or Town Council in any Parish or District or Burgh respectively; and in regard to School Buildings the Committee of Council shall advance, 15 as above provided, the Amount of the estimated Cost of such School Buildings as may be required under the Provisions of this Act, subject to Repayment of Three Fourths of the said Amount at the Rate of Six Pounds Ten Shillings per Centum per Annum for a Period of Twenty-two Years; provided that the whole Sum to be 20 contributed or advanced by the Committee of Council for the Purposes before specified, expended in any One Year, shall not exceed Seventy-five thousand Pounds, and that the Rules which may be prescribed by the Committee of Council are duly observed; and no Contribution or Payment shall be made by the said Committee to 25 or in respect of any Schools in Scotland other than those regulated by this and the recited Acts, excepting Schools maintained by Episcopalian and Roman Catholic Religious Denominations.

EDUCATIONAL ENDOWMENTS.

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38. The Commissioners shall have Power to revise all Founda- Commis30 tions, Mortifications, Endowments, or Bequests for Educational Pur- sioners to poses, which have taken effect for more than Fifty Years, and if it dowments. shall appear to the Commissioners that the Interests of Education and the main Design of the Donor may be better promoted by altering or adding to the Conditions of the same, they may alter such Condi35 tions, or add to the same, by a Statute under their Hand and Seal: Provided that the Commissioners shall have no Power to alter any such Foundation, Mortification, Endowment, or Bequest which shall be attached to any Religious Denomination, without the Consent of the Persons who have the legal Management of the same.

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39. All such Statutes shall be reported to and approved of by Her Majesty in Council before receiving effect.

Statutes to be approved by Her Majesty in Council.

Assessment to be imposed on Lands and Heritages.

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RECOVERY OF ASSESSMENTS.

40. The Assessments for the Purposes of this Act, to be called "the School Assessments," shall be imposed and levied for such Periods as may be necessary, by the School Committee of every Dis-C trict in which a School has been erected or improved under the Pro- 5 visions of this Act, or the Magistrates of any Burgh, on all Lands and Heritages situate within such District, or Burgh according to the yearly Rent or Value thereof as established by the Valuation Rolls, and such School Committee or Magistrates are hereby empowered and required to impose and levy such Assessments accord- 10 ingly, and that at such Rate in every Year as such School Committee or Magistrates shall deem necessary, in order to provide sufficient Funds for the Purposes of this Act, including such Sum as may be required to cover the Expenses of Assessment, Collection, and Management, and any Arrears of preceding Years, and the Assessment shall 15 be payable as from the Period from Whitsunday in the Year in which the same is imposed to Whitsunday in the Year immediately following, and may be levied either on the Proprietor or Tenant of such Lands and Heritages; but the Proprietor, in the event of his paying such Assessment, shall be entitled to claim from the Tenant One Half 20 the Amount thereof; and the Tenant, in the event of his paying such Assessment, shall be entitled to deduct One Half the Amount from the Rent payable by him: Provided that such School Committee or Magistrates shall not levy any Assessment in respect of any Dwelling House, Shop, or other such Premises, or any Offices or Outhouses 25 connected therewith, which shall be unoccupied and unfurnished during the whole Period to which such Assessment applies.

41. In the Case of Lands and Heritages situated within any as to Pay- Burgh, let at a Rent under Four Pounds per Annum, or for a less small Assess- Period than Half a Year, Deduction shall be allowed by the School 30 Committee or Magistrates of the Assessment for each Period of Six Months from Whitsunday to Martinmas, or from Martinmas to Whitsunday, during which any such Premises shall be unoccupied or not -furnished.

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42. The School Committee or Magistrates may, on the ground 35 mittee may of the Poverty of any Person liable in Assessment under this Act grant Relief. from Assess- in respect of any Land and Heritages in Value not amounting to Four Pounds per Annum, remit, in whole or in part, Payment of the said Assessment by such Person, in such Manner as they shall in their Discretion think just and reasonable, but upon no other 40 Account whatsoever...

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43. The whole Powers and Rights of issuing summary Warrants Mode of for Recovery of the Land and Assessed Taxes shall be applicable to recovering the Assessments of this Act authorized to be imposed and levied, ments. and Sheriffs, Magistrates, Justices of the Peace, and other Judges

5 shall grant Warrants for the Recovery of such Assessments, in the
like Form and under the like Penalties as is provided in regard to
such Land and Assessed Taxes and other public Taxes; and all
Assessments imposed in virtue of this Act shall, in the case of Bank-
ruptcy or Insolvency, be paid out of the first Proceeds of the Estate,
10 and shall be preferred to all other Debts of a private Nature due by
the Parties assessed.

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44. On an Assessment being imposed by the School Committee Exemption in any District, under the Provisions of this Act, all Lands and from AssessHeritages situate within such District shall be and are hereby Parochial 15 exempted from Assessment for any Parochial or Rural School in or Rural the Parish within which such District is situate.

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45. Any Dispute which may arise between the School Committee Disputes as or the Magistrates, or any Person or Persons acting under them to Assessrespectively, on the one Part, and any Person holding himself aggrieved summarily 20 on the other, relating to any Assessment under this Act, which it settled. not be competent or convenient to try and determine in the Sheriff Small Debt Court, shall be determined in a summary Manner by the Sheriff of the County in which such Dispute shall arise, or of the County in which the School is situate in respect of which such Assess25 ment is leviable; and such Sheriff shall, on a written Petition being presented to him by any of the said Parties, appoint them to appear before him, and shall then investigate the Matter in dispute in such Way as he may think and decide the same summarily; and proper, such Decision shall be final, and shall not be subject to Appeal or 30 Review in any Court or by any Process whatsoever.

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Further limit the Time of proceeding to Elections

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during Recess.

HEREAS by the Act of the Tenth George the Third, Preamble.
Chapter Forty-one, subsequently repealed but re-enacted

and extended, the Speaker was enabled to issue his Warrant to fill up Vacancies during Recess in certain Cases, after 5 giving Fourteen Days Notice in the London Gazette: And whereas the Spread of News has become more rapid since the Year One thousand seven hundred and seventy: And whereas unnecessary Delay in proceeding to Election is conducive to corrupt Practices : Be it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with 10 the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, as follows:

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1. That in the Cases provided for by the Twenty-fourth George the Speaker in Third, Chapter Twenty-six, the Act of the Fifty-second George the 15 Third, Chapter One hundred and fifty-four, the Act of the Twenty-first and Twenty-second of Victoria, Chapter One hundred and ten, the Speaker shall issue his Writ Seven instead of Fourteen Days after Fourteen he has notified in the Gazette that he has received the Certificates Days after [Bill 222.] prescribed Gazette.

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