Manual for Overseers, Assistant Overseers, Collectors of Poor Rates, and Vestry Clerks: As to Their Powers, Duties, and Responsibilities

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Knight, 1880 - Catalogs, Publishers' - 295 pages
 

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Page 71 - ... a convenient stock of flax, hemp, wool, thread, iron and other necessary ware and stuff to set the poor on work, and also competent sums of money for and towards the necessary relief of the lame, impotent, old, blind, and such other among them being poor and not able to work...
Page 31 - Officer of the Company, and need not be under the Common Seal of the Company, and the same may be in Writing or in Print, or partly in Writing and partly in Print.
Page 187 - The owner of any tithes, or of any tithe commutation rentcharge, or the occupier of any land used as arable, meadow, or pasture ground only, or as woodlands, market, gardens, or nursery grounds...
Page 42 - ... rates and taxes, and tithe commutation rentcharge, if any, and if the landlord undertook to bear the cost of the repairs and insurance, and the other expenses, if any, necessary to maintain the hereditament in a state to command that rent...
Page 41 - Hereditaments rated thereunto; that is to say, of the Rent at which the same might reasonably be expected to let from year to year, free of all usual Tenant's Rates and Taxes, and Tithe Commutation Rent-charge, if any, and deducting therefrom the probable average annual cost of the repairs, insurance, and other expenses, if any, necessary to maintain them in a state to command such Rent...
Page 38 - ... the rent at which the same might reasonably be expected to let from year to year, free of all usual tenant's rates and taxes, and tithe commutation rent-charge, if any, and deducting therefrom the probable average annual cost of the repairs, insurance, and other expenses, if any, necessary to maintain them in a state to command such rent...
Page 147 - ... every payment of a rate by the occupier, notwithstanding the amount thereof may be deducted from his rent as herein provided, and every payment of a rate by the owner, whether he is himself rated instead of the occupier, or has agreed with the occupier or with the overseers to pay such rate, and notwithstanding any allowance or deduction which the overseers are empowered to make from the rate...
Page 61 - ... the occupier of the land may, unless he has specifically contracted to pay such rate in the event of an increase, deduct from his rent such portion of any poor or other local rate as is paid by him in respect of such increase ; and every assessment committee, on the application of the occupier, shall certify in the valuation list or otherwise the fact and amount of such increase.
Page 243 - means a place for which a separate poor rate is or can be made, or for which a separate overseer is or can be appointed...
Page 74 - ... provided that such society shall be supported wholly or in part by annual voluntary contributions, and shall not, and by its laws may not make any dividend, gift, division...

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