An Act for the better assessing and collecting the Poor Rates and Highway Rates in respect of Small Tenements.
WHEREAS the Collection of Poor Rates and Highway Rates assessed upon the Occupiers of Tenements of small annual Value is expensive, difficult, and frequently impracticable, and it is expedient to make better Provision for the rating of such Tenements, and for the Collection of such Rates: 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 assembled, and by the Authority ...