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clarati•oh, which oaths they are tespettiVely 'autbb-
rized berAy to administer to any number of such
vestry not in any case exceeding 'seven, diligently to
inquire, and true presentmentS make of-the amount
of •inceme of the respective claimants, to the. best of
-their belief and-judgment. 'The overseers, church'.
wardens; or elders, ,respedively, may 'examine the
Claimants, and- require the attendance of persons
competent to give.evidence, and elainine them touch-
ing the income of such „claimants, and,after such
'inquiry, the Jury or major part of them,' shall. by
their verdid under their hands ascertain the amount
'of such incorhe,;ind deliver the same to the Commis-
sioners, who may-grant the-allowitnces (AI an exatni-
nation of the Assessors ; •and in case the number of
substantial inhabitants should be so numerous as to
require selediOn, may seled seven tor the purpose of
the aforesaid. inquiry, or, ifa snffiCient number should
not attend such Vestry, to appoint seven substantial
inhabitants for that purpose, out of any adjoining
parish,. Joint tenants may severally claim abate-
ments, except for. farms in. one demises and not in
exclusive-PosSession. Commissioners for Offices are
authorised- to proceed with calms
.to exemptions, or
allowances for pensions or stipends; but in every case
of a claith for exemption, abatement, or allowance;
the claiM must be verified.on oath; if the'Commis-
siimers for. Genera- Purposes shall think proper to
require it. In -cases of double assessments, the Coth7',
mis'sionets shall- cause . the douhle assessment to be
vacated .on the. produdion of a Certificte from- the
CoMmissioners. of-the distrid wherein the property
, was,first assessed. The Finishes are to be aceountablt-
fOr the Collators, laud in case of default, the arrears
of t.lte. duties to .be leyiedby.a re-assesstnent. The
.
assessments to be for one ear; payable by font, in.-
stalments, on- the 20111 day .ofeJune, 20th of Sep-
tember, 20th "of teCember,-and 'on the 20th of
March. •
• With respell to 15..n•sons shiftieg their residence; it
i:senacted;_that,notices, shall: froth time be
given by'the Wieder or Assessor, or Inspe6.lof, to
residents not 'before charged, • in order to their being
assessed, and that persons coming to reside in a
distra,who shall not, on notice being left with them,
declare where charged, or. deliver a statement"; for
the_ parpoge of being assessed, •or who shal renloye
out of a parish or place uitlibut first discharging the
assessment, or leaving sufficient goods to satisfy the
arrears, to forfeit•twenty pounds. Arrears.* to tie
levied in the distrid - where . the parties reside,
and if sufficient etfeas cannot be found, the de-
ficiency shall be recovered as a debt of record.
The Commissioners are authorized to' settle any dif-
ferences.between landlord and tenant'; bet na•conj-
trads between landlords and tenants, or other per-
, sons, can be binding contrary to this All. Persons
whO shall fraudulently change their residence, or Con-
vert their property, or deliver in fa'lse statements, in
order to evade.being charged and. assessed according
to the true 'intent and meaning of thiS Ad-, shall
be charged with double the amount of the charge
which ought to have been made upon such per-
sobs. Those who shall give false evidence,,_ or
swear falsely in any affidavit, deposition, or lit;firmation,
firmation, authorised by this Aa, shall be liable
to,the penalties of perjury, and-the indidruents• for
such perjury may be tried in the County where such
affidavit- wss exhibited. To forge or alter the cer-
tificates or receipts under this Act, is Made felony,
subject to transportation fel- fonf-teen••years. • The
Ad then goes on to reghlate the mode Of carrying on
the•money transactions bttween the Treasury and
the Bank, and provides for
.the transmission of-the
monies collated through . the several hands thMug-h
which it is Ick pass till it arrives at: the Bank.—
It contains a clause providing- for its amendment or
repeal during the preseufsession,s and also aut horis-.
ing the grqut of voluntary contributions which may
hereceived at the Bank. Letters Patent are declared
insufficient, to exempt any person from the duties
- imposed by this Aa. It concludes with the forms' of
the Oath to be taken by the several Officers to be em-
ployed in.the. execution of its provisions. • •

mutts in the-Arks; of :the: Commissioners to: the
TaX-Office, ai-atotibiirk.:nehhifirahCefsand Receivers
Crenern.. Such persolis. as desire to pay intosthe Bank
of England' or. to Deputy ReceiVers and Colleaoi-s,
'by a nahibCY.OHetter;':may-616 sO by having dupli-
Cates-4eilvered:with su6h number, Withikit
Mentibnipg's'ao person's narne, and the warrantfor
receh-hig the'Siteneh The Bill next p'rovidei for' the
"collealon of the:duties ou -all profits . arising, un
all salaries,' fees, or emoluments whatsoeVer. '
to be made-to the Trustees of the Bri-
Aisii-Mnstinn, and `exemptions to be allowed in the
same inlinnet as now allowed to Charitable' Institu,
a party be snr-c4„l::ged,' the double dPty may
l aioided by giving in at any tithe preVions to the
tinie appointed for hearing appeacs,a trne,perfea, and
Complete schedtile'of the annual 'value of all his,,pro-
perty, it ought to he estimated according to this
.A t, with an.riffidavit to 'that effea.
lti
.case the surcharge should be -confirnied,7donble
tliesluty shall lie
The following is'' the 'clause for regulating- the
-scale :-according ;to' which:incomes between- fifty
pout:in-, which are to be exempted fi-otti the tax, and
one hundred pounds, at which the full amount of
"ten per cent: is to be leyied, are tote assessed under
'this Aft : , • -
" Ptovided 'always, and be it farther enabled, that
every person Whose annual amount of income,,eSti-
`mated according to this Mt, shall be less than tool.
and who shall:be assessed to the tinties -eharged on -;
the.prOkrties'or profim described in the schedule- of
particulars' contained in this clause,- or any of them,
or who Shall, be liable to the payment of 'duty by
way of -dedtiCtiOn, iii respea thereof, shall be 'eti:
titled, on proi-ing, 'as hercitiFfter mentioned, that .
s'ieh income doth not exceed 501. to be- exempted
from the payment of duties charged on such of
them a§- shall have been charged on the properties
Or profits so described in the said schedule Of parti-
tulars, or any of them, and from all payments by-
way of deduction in respect thereof as aforesaid ; and
in all such cases where 'such income shall exceed
'fiftY:poiands, and Shall be less than one hundred
f:outids, such person shall be entitled to an allowance
but of the duties chatged on the properties or profits
So described- in the. said Schedule of Particulars, or
any of them,' or payable in-tespe& thereof as afore-
said, at and after the rate of two shillings for every
'twenty shi:iings, by. which the income proved and
allowed a&cording to this Aa shall be less than one
Inindfed pounds,' and in that pro ortion for any lesser
sum than twenty shillings, provided that the duties
Charged on the prOperties or profits so described, or
payable in respect thereof, as aforesaid, Shall be saf-
ficient for that purpo§e, and so far as the -said allow-
ance can be satisfied out of said duties."
The operation of this Clause will be, to • sub-
jea an income of fifty-five 'pounds to 'll. duty an-
of sixty to 21. of sixty ive to -31. of seventy.
to 41. of seventy-five to 51, of eighty to 61. of eighty-
five to 71. Of' ninety to 81. of nicety-five to DI. and
of one liuiidred to 101: being in the proportion of 4s.
in the 11.1dr every pound by which the income shall
exceed fifty pounds undet one hundred.
All persons' Claiming exemptions or allowances
muter this are •to make declarations of shell
claims in- writing to the Commissioners, who may
allow' the same, 'and grant a,certificate of exemption
br abatement: A penalty of 201. shall be incurred
by any persims guilty
of fraud in making such claims,
or obtaining such certificate.
The particulars of the properties and profits upon
which the allowance and reduCtion 'of duty may be
tnade : • •
• First-,e-Profits arising from tythes, payment in lieu
of tythes„. composition for tytheS and land, profits of
quarries:mines, find iron works. '2dly—Profits-arising•
from the occupation' of lands 'and tenements. . Third-
ly---Profits arising from "any trade, manufaaure, ad-
venture or concern - in the nature of trade, or fro
any profession, employMent, or", Vocation, estimated
in the first-instance at an average of three years, and
in the.seriOnd, on the amount of the -last year's pro-
fits. Fonrtitly—PrOfits arising frben-atiy office or
employment. • Fifthly—The'amount of any-pension
Or Stipend payable out the pahlic revenue : and
Sixthly, the amount of any'annhity or annuities for
life; 'or for terms of years, arising out -of any kind'
Of property whatsoever.
The rules for,estimating .the- incomes upon which
en exemption or allowance may be granted, are,
first; in cases of aggregate income, where any
part thereOf shall arise 'from profits or prOperty not
included -in the partiCtilars, for 'whiCh the allowance
or exeMption is ordered to be made, the duties
charged by this Act upon such profit or'property are
to be dednaed from the estimate of such income,
but are to be charged andlevied, as if no such clause
to exctUption-Or allowance had been made Seoond,'
the income arising front the occupation of lands or
tenements shall
,be estimated" in England at three-
tOurths of the annual ihdite 'thereof, in Scotland, at
one-half ditto, and, the Meanie arisinsfrom a lease of
tytheS, at one-fourth -of-the annual 'value thereof,
and the-exemption or allowance shall be granted
on the amount of income so estimated. Tltird, in
cases of partnership, none but acting partners shall;
be adriaitted to claim 'such, exemption or allowance.
Fourth, in cases of joint occupancy of lands, none
but the occupiers' persoikally acting therein 'shall • be
admitted to make :Such claim : and fifth, no ptirson,
in any of such cases, shall be denied the benefit of
such claim, by reason of the property or capital bona
fide 'till.b.)yeci in or about such concern, or under
pretence that the profits arising therefrom are de-
rived from- the property or capital so employed."
The claiM for such exemptions must be made
where the claimant resides; or if non-resident, by
affidavit. The certificates of such allowances are to
be'delivered to the party, and by him to the Col-
teCtor; and will operate either by satisfying the as-
sessment unpaid, or by entitling the bearer to re-
payment. Such certificates are; to be delivered a&,
terwards' to the Corrimissionets by- the Collector,
who shall [hereon receive a schedule of discharge.
In all cases.- where the return of incoMe .shall not
exceed' 501. arising :wholly from profit's • within the
parish or place, the assessor, on receiving any decla- •
ration of claim to an. e'keMption thereon, slian forth-
with fie -.-e; the 'same qo. the Churchwardens and
(31;eer, rS•of the Poor; or one of them, in Englat A;
and it, acotland to one-of -the elders of the parish
or place, who shall 'respeCtively 'forthwith call a
vestry of the prinCipal inhabitants of the 'place-5 to
inquire upon their oaths' into the ti-u 0) of s•uch do-

FAIRS. OF INDIA.

•
The sailors belonging to the Prussian Vessels de-
taine4 in the Thames tre loud in theh• execrations of
-the French Govern:4tent for its fatal influence over
their Country; and, in consequence of their, pay
'being stopped while. the Ships are under embargo,
several hundrelis of them are soliciting employffetit
in our merchants' service.

At Baronhay, in the parish of Coylton, an ewe of'
the English • breed, last Week, yeaned four. fine
lambs. This ewe has .yeaned thirteen lambS in five
years, viz. one the first year, Three the second, three
the iird, two the fourth, and four in the present.
One of these last mentioned was killed for. baying
too little room in the pen; the rest are all likely to
do well. The ewe is of a peculiar breed, and was
sent to Scotland by Colonel *FULLAirroN. Its wool is:-
aluiost as soft: as and the mutton of the breed
One of the.new houses building at Whitechapel,
and which was nearly completed, fell on Friday \vial
,a dreadful crash, and mater-rally injured another -be-
hind it. NO persons were hurt by the accident,: the-
- workmen having all retired tn dinner.
A 'Gentleman at Limehouse has a terrier dog which
is upwards of 20 years of age. Being almost blind,
his Master-caused 4 pair of - gogglers to be made for
him, by which he is. enabled, to go out. On missing
his,master, he searches through the neighbourhood
till he finds him, when he pulls him by the coat to
go home; after which the glasses are taken from.
his head but he never fails to pine till they are put
rl on again.
Yesterday se'nnight the ,body of an. apparent-
ly new-born female infant was found at a place called
. Rawlin's Marsh,
.at the South part of the town of
Lynn, where was washed up by the tide.; it was
carried to the, Workhouse in the Parish of South
Lynn, where the Coroner and Jury attended-, but
no proofs could be produced. •
Pleasure has for some days engrossed the atten-
tion of all ranks of our holiday deVotees. They
will.now naturally return to. those Matters which
.more immediately concern their welfa.re and interest,
and there is one Which numerous individuals will
shortly experience to bo capable 9f rendering them
merry and happy throughout their- lives.- The pre-
sent rich and most
_advantageous. Lottery Scheme
invites their embrace. But the 12th ofzext month,
when, the LYraWing commences, will soon
,arrivet
and an advance on the price of Chances may in con=
sequence be Speedily. expeded. ' *

....M...,•401.1.

EAST LVDLI ATT,IIRS,

LctlL FROM THE TAPERS LAID B FOF.t TILE
HOUSE OF COMMONS, RELATIVE -TO TIIE

(Continued from our Paper of Satrda.y.)

Before I proceed to the inferences suggested by
the present information, I think it proper to make
some- remarks on Jilt charaeters, competency, and
evidence of the witnesses to whom I have appealed ;
and as so much depends upon the evidence of Zeh-
seen Ali Khaun, the Credibility due to it must be
.weighed with the utmost attention.
It is liable to two objeaioni,:--First, that hav-
ing been latterly.ill-treated by the. Nabdb, his evi-
'-dence may be presumed to be dictated by resent-
ment.

Secondly :—That it has variations, which, if.
-they- cannot be reconciled or. eplained; subjea•
:leis 'evidence to a suspicion of falseh&ct or iliac-

curacy. •
On the firk ,point it is to be observed that the
account which Zehseen originally oave to the. Re-
sident and Minister, of the birth of Vizier Ali,
previous to any disagreement • between -himan&the
Nabob, at a perk.xl when he was. in favour with
him, and•when they' were ,not without suspicion
that Zehseefi was secretly in his interest, ffoni his
daily communications with his father7in-law, Sheri
Ali, -and that the account which he then delivered
tended strongly to confirm ,the popular belief 'that
Vizier. Ali was not the son of the Nabob,: although
it did not amount fo the'proOf that he 'Was positively
the sot) of his reputed father, a Fraush.
It-is father to be observed,' that the' opinion- of
Vizier Ali's spurious birth not only preceded his in 7
formation and all inquiries on the subjeel, but has
over and imiriably existed froth the moment` of his
first prodUetion by the late
.Nabob ; 'Zehseell's ac=
count, therefore, was not the source of it, but an
explanation of. the grounds of it, and goes only to
"substantiate the bpi n ion whiCh has always preVailed,
although the circumstances which gave rise, to it may
tlot have been generally known,. a in the. elapse of.
seventeen years may hav .;e been forgotten. - .
If Zehseen had been aauated by the resentment
--against Vizier Alt, his 'evidence *ould. have been
idire6ted against him alone, and in favour•of some of
his brethren. It operates against all. This appears-
to me a snfacient answer to the first objection, pro-
vided the second,. which arises frOmenntraSting the
account stated to have been deliVered by Zehseen .to
the Resident: and MinisWr (and stated in my Mi-
'mites of the 94th NOvember) 'with that which he
has detdiled since my arrival at Luenow; can also lie
• obviated. •

vv
In the former he is said to assert, -that Rhemut,
the mother of Vizier Ali, both in the ease-Pf his
birth and that of the fernier son, Mahbined
Ameen; was sent from -the .Zenana to be deliver;
ed in his house, and the inference which is
suggested
,was this, that the Nabob certainly
knew of her prelaiancy, 'Might suppose hiMself the_
father of 'the child, and confined the mother, during
-ther delivery, to the care'of Zehseen-; and, under
such circumstances, neither: the low estate of the
mother, nor the place of her rieliveiy, us it then
appeared, 'could have been 44initted as a bar to the
validity of his 'title, as la son of Asoph ud Dowlah.
The account which he. has since given is, that she
came of herself to his house, and the Nabob did not
even know of her previous pregnancy. "Phis_ is the
6fittadiaioni to 'which the obje&ion applies.
To appreciate the weight of it, I desired the Re-: ,
sideilt to call-upon the Minister, in the presence of
Zehseen, to sta,te his recolleaion of the account de-
livered_ by him, arid communicated unofficially by
the Resident to myself, and I annex his report And
explanation.
T4e IViinister's recolleEtion did not enable him to
speak positivAy or accurately on the subjea ; he,
hoWeVer, perfealy remembers that Zehseen had
mentioned that Vizier Ali's mother was .a servant,
receiving only four -rupees per month, a circum-
stance omitted by the Resident in his report.
, When the conversation took
_place with - lehseen
bn the snbjett of birth, the suspicions
which-the-Resident and Ministet then entertained- of
Zehseen's
,attachment to the Minister, as well as
.other: reasons,' precluded any minute examination of
him.; And the Resident, who Wrote the account
substantially on the followingrday, will not venture
to assert that he did not Mistmderstand Zehseen,
why positively maintains the correctness of his
_in-!
formation then given, and imputes any apparent
f.. inconsistency to the-misconception of the Resident.
He himself is' inclined tobelieve it j and his miscon-
ceptiOn arose from the caution observed in question-
ing. Ze,ll§ePn,, in the desire of himself and.tbe Mi-
nister to avoid appearing minute in their inquiries,
and that a patti6,6liir 'exarhination Might have led- to
the same detail'which kas since Leen

In this conclusion I concur. The Reitlei-it had,
always previously observ4that toe mother of Vi.zier
Ali was one of the feinalei in the Harem, and -this
impression would easily lead to a Misconception on
his part of the account given by `Zehseen. That eir-
ettmstance'in Zehseen's information which the Mi-
nister recolletts is incompatible With such a suppo-
sibion, and renders it highly probable that he misun-
derstood Zehscen ; for, as bejustly observes, if the
circumstance had not escaped his yeeolledion, he
could -never have understood - that Rhemut, the
mother of Vizier Ali, was received into the Zenana
in-the same manner with the otbei women whdse
children the Nabob purchased. The first informa,
tion of Zeliseen-, was 'general, and by cmitteaing
with it-the circumstance recoileCted by the Minister;
and forgotten by the Resident, it admits of an easy
reconciliation with his subsequent
The stated objections, therefore, to the,ififornia7
tion of Zehseen are in-my opinion done away.
In favour of Zehseen's evidence the following olj-,
servations occur: _

The candour of his declaration in affirthing, most
positively, that the deceased Nabob was adu-ally the
• lather of two children. The tad was unsupposed,
and the assertion uncallecttOri a4d-as Zehseen could
not be ignorant of the object of these inquiries,' he
would naturally, upon a supposition of fafsehood on
his part, have concealed a circumstance operating so
strongly against the inferences deducible from his
information on other points and his candour adds
much to LI., weight of his general testimony.

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