Inclosure Act 1845

120 Expences to be raised by rate. E+W

All salaries and allowances to field reeves and other persons, and all expences in and about the management of every such regulated pasture, and the repairs and erection of buildings thereon, under the directions of such meetings of owners as aforesaid, and all other expenses of such regulated pasture, shall be paid and defrayed by the owners of the respective stints therein; and for that purpose it shall be lawful for the field reeve or one of the field reeves, under the directions of any such meeting of owners, from time to time to make a rate on the respective owners for such sum as the majority of owners present at such meeting shall think requisite; and every such rate shall be apportioned and paid by the owners according to the rule of rating established for such regulated pasture, and shall be paid to the field reeve on demand thereof, and, in case the same shall not be paid within fourteen days after demand thereof, shall be recoverable by distress; and it shall be lawful for any field reeve to exclude from such regulated pasture the stock or animals of any owner or his tenant whose proportion of the rate shall be in arrear and unpaid for fourteen days after demand thereof, until the proportion of such rate so in arrear shall be fully paid; and any such demand or distress may be made of or on the occupier of any such stint, as if the occupier were the owner liable to the payment of such rate, and such rate may be paid by any such occupier on demand thereof, and the money so paid by such occupier shall be deemed a payment on account of his rent, and shall be allowed by his landlord accordingly.