ISBN: 9781458985767

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustra… More...

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1896 Excerpt: ... ASSIMILATION OF OTHER RATES TO THE POOR-RATE Having traced the development of the poor-rate down to the present time, we must now go back to the seventeenth century, and endeavour to follow the steps by which the practice of local authorities, the decisions of courts of law, and the enactments of Parliament have caused the whole of local rates, with trifling exceptions, to be little but additions to the poor-rate. The old rates levied by common assent of the ratepayers, or by the authority of the governing body of a corporation without statutory sanction, gradually died out or were replaced by modern statutory creations. The relics of them which still existed in the towns just before the Municipal Corporations Reform Act of 1835 will be found described in the Appendix to the report of the Municipal Corporations Commission. There was, for example, at Folkestone a chamberlain''s rate on property and an ability tax of is. 6d. per head on persons, which certainly suggests that the Folkestone measurement of ability was decidedly rough.1 At Pevensey, we are told, a rate called the town scot is almost every year imposed by the magistrates upon the property within the liberty occupied by persons residing within 1 House of Commons Papers, 1835, No. 116 (in vol. xxiv.), p. 983. the liberty. Property owned by non-residents is not rated. The scot is sometimes id. in the pound, sometimes 2d. on the poor-rate assessment.1 Probably there is not now any town or other locality which even claims the power to levy a non-statutory rate, unless the rate of the nature of a county rate, which the City of London believes it could raise, belongs to this class.2 In any case, we may be sure that if the City were reduced to levying such a rate, it would levy it like a modern sta... Edwin Cannan, Books, History, The History Of Local Rates In England; Five Lectures Books>History General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1896 Original Publisher: Longmans, Green Subjects: Municipal finance Poor laws England Business<

ISBN: 9781458985767

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustra… More...

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1896 Excerpt: ... ASSIMILATION OF OTHER RATES TO THE POOR-RATE Having traced the development of the poor-rate down to the present time, we must now go back to the seventeenth century, and endeavour to follow the steps by which the practice of local authorities, the decisions of courts of law, and the enactments of Parliament have caused the whole of local rates, with trifling exceptions, to be little but additions to the poor-rate. The old rates levied by common assent of the ratepayers, or by the authority of the governing body of a corporation without statutory sanction, gradually died out or were replaced by modern statutory creations. The relics of them which still existed in the towns just before the Municipal Corporations Reform Act of 1835 will be found described in the Appendix to the report of the Municipal Corporations Commission. There was, for example, at Folkestone a chamberlain''s rate on property and an ability tax of is. 6d. per head on persons, which certainly suggests that the Folkestone measurement of ability was decidedly rough.1 At Pevensey, we are told, a rate called the town scot is almost every year imposed by the magistrates upon the property within the liberty occupied by persons residing within 1 House of Commons Papers, 1835, No. 116 (in vol. xxiv.), p. 983. the liberty. Property owned by non-residents is not rated. The scot is sometimes id. in the pound, sometimes 2d. on the poor-rate assessment.1 Probably there is not now any town or other locality which even claims the power to levy a non-statutory rate, unless the rate of the nature of a county rate, which the City of London believes it could raise, belongs to this class.2 In any case, we may be sure that if the City were reduced to levying such a rate, it would levy it like a modern sta... Edwin Cannan, Books, History, The History Of Local Rates In England; Five Lectures Books>History, General Books LLC<