The Local Taxation Returns Act 1860
WHEREAS Rates, Taxes, Tolls, and Dues to a large Amount are levied for Purposes of local Government and Improvements in England, and it is proper that Parliament should be informed annually of all Sums so levied, and the Expenditure thereof, but in many Cases no sufficient Provision has been made for that Purpose: Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assemb...