An Act to Provide for the Paving, Gravelling, Lighting, and Watching Certain Footways and Carriageways in and Near Brompton Square: In the Parish of Saint Mary Abbotts Kensington, in the County of Middlesex and to Provide for the Maintenance of a Garden and Shrubbery in the Said Square.Anonymous
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An Act to Provide for the Paving, Gravelling, Lighting, and Watching Certain Footways and Carriageways in and Near Brompton Square: In the Parish of Saint Mary Abbotts Kensington, in the County of Middlesex and to Provide for the Maintenance of a Garden and Shrubbery in the Said Square.
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Great Britain. Laws, statutes, etc.; Kensington (London, England)
XXVI. And be it further enacted, That to enable the said Trustees to
carry this Act into Execution it shall be lawful for them from Time to
Time to make such Rates as they shall deem needful upon the Tenants and
Occupiers of all Lands, Houses, Shops, Coach-houses, Stables, Erections,
Buildings, and other Tenements whatsoever within the Jurisdiction of this
Act, in such Sums of Money as the said Trustees shall think proper, so
that such Rates shall be just and equal Pound Rates, according to the
annual Rent or Value of the Premises thereby assessed, and so that the
Costs and Expences of and incident to the enclosed Area of the said
Square shall be wholly borne by the Tenants and Occupiers of Houses in
the said Square, and so that in every such Rate it shall distinctly
appear what Part thereof shall be raised in respect of the said
last-mentioned Costs and Expences, and so that the said Rates shall not
in any One Year exceed the Sum of Two Shillings in the Pound of the
annual Rent or Value of the Property rated, except as to Houses in the
said Square, after such Lease of the enclosed Area of the said Square
shall be obtained as aforesaid, and during the Continuance of every such
Lease, and so that in the last-mentioned Cases the Rates in respect of
the Houses in the said Square shall not in any One Year exceed the Sum of
Two Shillings and Sixpence in the Pound of the Rent or annual Value
thereof; and in making the said Rates, all Stables, Coach-houses, and
other Buildings which shall belong to or be held and occupied with any of
the Houses in the said Square, and within the Jurisdiction of this Act,
shall be respectively rated with such Houses, and not as separate
Buildings; and to facilitate the making of the said Rates, it shall be
lawful for the said Trustees, or any Person or Persons appointed by them,
at all seasonable Times to examine the Books of Assessment to any Public,
Parliamentary. Parochial, or Local Tax charged upon or affecting the
Houses, Buildings, or Tenements within the Jurisdiction of this Act, or
any of them.
XXVII. And be it further enacted, That in every Rate to be made as
aforesaid, the Landlord or Proprietor of every House or Tenement within
the Jurisdiction of this Act, which shall be occupied by any Ambassador,
Foreign Minister, or other Person not compellable by Law to pay such
Rate, shall be deemed to be and shall be rated as the Occupier thereof
respectively.
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