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)
XXX. And be it further enacted, That the first Rate which shall be made
by virtue of this Act shall be for Two Quarters ending at _Christmas Day_
next after the passing of this Act, and that every subsequent Rate shall
be for One whole Year, commencing from the Expiration of the Term for
which the preceding Rate shall have been made; and that all the said
Rates shall become due and be payable immediately upon the making
thereof, but may be collected in one or several Payments, or yearly,
half-yearly, or quarterly, as the said Trustees shall from Time to Time
direct; and that such Rates and all other Monies which shall become due
or be payable to the said Trustees in pursuance of the Provisions in this
Act contained shall be and are hereby vested in the said Trustees, and
shall be paid to such Person or Persons as the said Trustees shall from
Time to Time appoint to collect and receive the same, and shall be
applied and disposed of by the said Trustees in defraying the Expences of
and incident to the Execution of this Act, and otherwise as in or by this
Act is directed or authorized.
XXXI. And be it further enacted, That if any Person or Persons liable to
pay any Rate or Rates which shall be made in pursuance of this Act, or
any Part or Parts of any such Rate or Rates, shall refuse or neglect to
pay the same, it shall be lawful for any Justice of the Peace for the
County of _Middlesex_, and every such Justice is hereby authorized and
empowered (such Defaulter having been first duly summoned to appear
before such Justice or Justices to shew Cause for such Refusal or
Neglect, and not having appeared upon such Summons, or having appeared
and not shewn good and sufficient Cause to such Justice that he, she, or
they, is or are not chargeable with such Rate or Rates) to grant a
Warrant under his Hand and Seal, authorizing the Person appointed to
collect the same Rates as aforesaid, or any other Person or Persons, to
levy such Rate or Rates, and all Arrears thereof, together with all
incidental Coats and Expences, by Distress of the Goods and Chattels of
the Person or Persons so neglecting or refusing; and if the said Rate or
Rates, and all Arrears thereof, together with all such Costs as
aforesaid, and also all Costs of and incident to the taking and detaining
the Distress, shall not be paid within Five Days next after the Distress
shall be taken, the Person appointed to collect the said Rates, or other
Person authorized by the said Warrant, shall cause the Goods and Chattels
distrained to be appraised and sold, or such Part thereof as shall be
sufficient to pay the said Rate or Rates, and all Arrears thereof, and
all such Costs and Expences as aforesaid, and the Costs and Expences of
keeping, appraising, and selling the Distress, and after full Payment of
the same, shall return the Overplus (if any) to the Owner or Owners of
such Goods and Chattels respectively, on Demand made thereof by such
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