Metropolis Management Act 1855

CLXXV Provision for assessing and levying Rates in Places where there is no Poor Rate. Mode of making the Assessment. Allowance to Assessors.

The Sums which may be assessed from Time to Time upon any Place mentioned in Schedule (C.) to this Act, or such Part thereof as may not be comprised within any Parish, or the City of London, shall be raised by means of a Rate to be made and levied as herein provided ; that is to say, the said Metropolitan Board shall from Time to Time, by Warrant under their Seal, appoint a proper Person to be an Assessor, for the Purpose of assessing the full and fair annual Value of all Property in every such Place, or such Part thereof as aforesaid, which, if the same were not extra-parochial, would be liable to be rated to the Relief of the Poor, and rating the same to a Rate to be levied under this Act; and such Assessor shall, within Forty Days after the Delivery to him of the Warrant of his Appointment, make, sign, and return to the said Board an Assessment for the Place named in such Warrant; and the Assessment shall be fairly written in a Book, and shall specify, in different Columns, the Names of the respective Inhabitants or Occupiers of all Messuages, Lands, Tenements, and Hereditaments, the full and fair annual Value of the same, and the Amount of Rate charged on the Inhabitants or Occupiers thereof, and when the Premises are unoccupied, the full and fair annual Value thereof to let; and every such Assessor shall be allowed for his Trouble and Expenses such Remuneration as the said Board may think fit; and the same shall be paid out of the Amount of the Rate which shall be collected after such Assessment; and the said Rate to be levied as aforesaid shall, for the Purposes of the Provisions of this Act relating to Exemption from and Reduction or Allowance in respect of Sewers Rate, and relating to Deduction and Repayment of Sums paid on account of Sewers Rate, be deemed a Sewers Rate.