The National Register.
London, England, 1819-07-11 00:00:00

COMPOSITtON ON ASSESSED TAXES.

The act for allowing a certain composition on the
Assessed Taxes has now passed, and a brief account
of it may be useful to some of our readers. It ap-
pears that the assessments made fir the year ending
on the .sth of April last shall remain at the same
amount, to all persons who shall compound for the
payment thereof, for the term of three years. The
composition is an addition of 5 pet cent on the pre-
sent assessment ; and the advantage resulting front
it is this—that if last year a man paid fiw window
tax five pounds, he is by the act allowed, far five
shillings tame, to open double or treble the number
of windows, at his own discretion ; and in the same
way for horses, carriages, and other assessed articles
—with this proviso, that the increase in his csta.
Willson be made in articles of the same kind. A
person, for instance, may, after paying his composi-
tion-money upon one horse, keep two or more with-

out any additirmal charge of tax ; but if to kis horses
he atlas a carriage, lie is still liable to the carriage
tax. No composition can be emend into under the
act with any person who has becomw chargeable in
the present year, by reason of any different or addi-
tional establishment set up bet:ire the sth of last

April, to a putter amount of duty than has been

charged upon him in his Lt t msc::sment,
witho►tt including as well the am►►unt of duty so
charged in the aid asst..ssinent, as the increased
amount of duty so becoming chargeable by reason of
such different or additional establishment.

similar meetings held at Spa-fields, we doubt not but If a person wish to take advantage of the tempo-
Government will take strung measures to preserve sition only for three years in enlarging his establish-
that peace, the disturbance of which is, probably, the mcnt, he is required to give six months' previous
wish of these wodhy gentlemen. The law, as it is, notice of his intention to discontinue the same, and
is sufficient to do this, and we believe the civil must actually have ceased to keep the sante ow r
power will achieve it without the intervention of calendar lawals prior to the expiration of the said
the military. We dare predict there will be as period of three years. This is a point which we
complete an exhibition of treason-spouting as was would rceounnesid to all compounders to bear in

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mind, otherwise they may find themselves unwarily
involved in a very serious expense, greatly exceeding
their means or wishes to pay.
Compositions on dwelling houses are to cease at
the end of the year of removal, and on °Cwr articles
by the death of the party coat:wattling.
The monies to arise by virtue of the composition
entered into under this act, are to be payable at the
SWIM times, in ►he saute proportions, and to the
same persons, as the duties of Assessol Taxes arc
now payable. By the said act, too, any person may
by laying his composition in advance, gain the ad-
vantage of a discount of 3 per cent. per annum, cal-
culated for the period or periods by which each
respective sum shall be paid sooner than the period
prescribed for the payment thereof. But a moiety
of the annual sum payable by the composition
entered into, is to be paid within ten days after the
date of the certificate of composition ; which com-
position cannot b 3 entered into after the 31st
October, 1819.

We have stated the leading features of this act
with a perspicuity sufficient, we trust, to make them
perfmtly understood by those who have no oppor-
tunity to read, or patience to examine, the act itself.
We are not very sanguine in our expectations that
the revenue will be greatly benclitted by the adop-
lion of this plan ; though it is manifest that. math
accommodation will result to individuals by an
arrangement which will increase their comforts with-
out burdening their incomes ; and we doubt not
many who have no idea of enlarging their establi,h-
ments will enter:into composition, merely to avoid the
trouble and vexation of repeated surcharges, and to
be rid of an evil almost as great as that of the as-
sessed taxes themselves—that of appealing to the
Commissioners from the unjust demands of an in-
terested and overbearing surveyor.

AN ANECDOTE VF.RSMIED.
(/'nun an .4asiricaa P iper.l

A Pat--an odd joker—and Yankee more sly,
Once riding together, a gallows pars'd by :
Said the Yankee to Pat, •• If I don't make too free,
" Give that gallows its due, and pray where would you be
" Why, honey," said Pat, " faith that's eadly known ;
" I'd be riding to town by myself All alone."

A letter from Gibraltar, of' the 19th nit stirs :
" The Emperor of Morocco is about to take the
field with an immense army against a large tribe of
Arabs who lately defeated and wounded one of his
sous, and succeeded in making one of his wives a
primmer. Tiade at Gibraltar continues in a molt
distiessed state, and no demand whatever for any
kind of produce."
A SPECIMEN OF TILE TIMES —Fifty •I wit clothiers
have, during the last 20 years, carried on bosioess
at a borough town in Wiltshire, and at their various
manufactories afforded employment to a numerous
population ; but now, the inhabitants of the place
are sunk into pauperism and wretchedness, for of
their 32 employers, 9 are dead, 17 have failed, 24.
have declined, and only two remain in hosines..
Nor is this a singular ease, for there are within 8
codes of the above place, 4 other manufactaring•
towns, in each of which the depression of trade has
been equally severe.
Mercantile letters reeeived fmtn Palermo, and
other ports in the Mediterranean, to the Bth June,
give the same gloomy accounts, AS to the state of
trade, us those from most other parts Of Europe anti
Americo. They, however, contain the most grail.
lying act-mints of the abundance of the crops of every
description of grain anti fruit, whitst are said to be
great and laautiagt Leyytal WI Canter precedent.

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