The Taxes Act 1856
WHEREAS it is expedient to grant Relief in assessing the Income Tax on Lands in Scotland in respect of certain Public Burdens charged thereon, and to alter and regulate the Allowances to Clerks to the Commissioners of Income Tax, and also to amend the Laws relating to the Redemption and Purchase of the Land Tax: 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 assemble...