The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1868-01-21 00:00:00

WAREHAM.

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isonug.eag Cougtestoxeria. At • epeeist meeting
of Lind Tax Commissioners, beta at the Rad Lion
Hotel, on Wean,-ipisy lest, the Right Honorable John
Scott Earl of Eldon, E. J. Weld, Eq., and H.
Pickard Cambridge, Esq., were named Cononjo
for the general put peace of the Income Tex A.M.
POnt-RATtle EXCUSED !AMT.—Mears. Hilleez am(
Framwin Bennett, the Borough Justices, attended by Mr.
Faker, the Town Clerk, lost at the Towebsu, oo
Friday lest, to receive frost the eburehwardens end
overseer, of the three in-perishes the names of those
whom they remonmen led, on the ground of poverty, to
he evolved from payment of their rates. Them
bete were carefully examined by the jastiees
and the explanation of the perish Milan given
thereon. Most of those on the list were eximasid.
Other persons attended to mike their . Maim
In lemon, when, on investigation, the Lustioes did not
think they mold excuse them; and in I oee eases where
I 4.1..r0d the premises had been let to them free of
nie.•• waist their attention to the proviso in the Act
which enables the occupier to deduct his mace paid
from his ont. No doubt the wisdom of Parlia-
ment will devise Come *aheme ti remedy the
workiuc of thin difB nt cl.u.e met session. In
the meth tone the pari.h °flown§ must do the
beet they len •
with • dif•,,u t subject. The
People Iteprqentstion Aet, 1867, 30 nod 31 Viet..
nap. 102. sec. 7, ensete "That when lb* owner is
rated, at the time of the passing of this Act to the
poor-rate in respect of • dwelling•house or other
tenement, situate In • parish *bolls or partly in •
borough, instead of !be occupier, hie (the owner's)
howl'', to be rated in any future poor-rate shell cease,
...I the following enactuients shall take effect with
repeet to reline ia ell borough," I. After the miming
of this •tet no owner of any dwelling-boo., or other
imminent, situate in a parish oilier wholly or partly in
• •Or 011•11 shall I. Med 10 1b• pOOO-101, iasisa

the oesegrier, except as hereafter mentioned. 2. The
fun rateable value of every dwelling-house, Au, and
the fell rate in the pound payable by the occupier is to
be entered in the rate book. Where the dwelli ig-
house is wholly let out in apartments or lodgings, not
witwrittely rated, the ownet of such dwelling-house, km.,
shall be rated in respect thereof to the poorrate. Than
follow three provisoes, the last of which is very
material, and bee (so far as we have noticed)
never been prominently brought forward in
the various perplexing diseassimis whieb have pained at
meetings and in print, touching tbis selebnitsl seventh
nation of the People Representation Act, 1887, which
has generally been held, virtually and entirely, to
abolish in boroeehs which 'lest members of Parliunent
the lit motion of 13 and 14 Viet, e. 90, enabling
parish yeetries to rate the owners instead of the
oesepiere of edieeteente under the yearly value
of £6. The third proviso to the above section
enacts :-3, That where the occupier under •
tenancy subsisting at the time of the passing of
thia act (the People Representation Aft, 1867) of
any dwelling house or other tenement which
has been lot to him free from rates, is rated and has
paid rates in pursuance of thicket, he may dednot from
any rent dna or morning due from him in respect of the
used deelling-bottse or other tenement, any amount
paid by him on account of the rates for which he limy
be rendered liable by this set The effect of this last
proviso
atoi wherroeullied seem
vm oiz prevent
se his
the o
re. being
t srrinswilm
continue where his premises are let five of mks-
13xperienoe shows that these small Foyers think very
much more of having to pay rates than care „for lir
Privilege of • vote in small boroughs, which privilege
most cease they don't at all appreciate or value.