The Sun.
London, England, 1834-03-08 00:00:00

HOUSE DUTY.

A BILL TO REPEAL CERTAIN DUTIES ON
INHABITED DWELLING HOUSES.
Whereas by an Act passed in the forty-eighth year of the
reign of King George the Third, intituled " An Act for re-
pealing the Duties of Assessed Taxes, and granting new
Duties in lieu thereof, and certain additional Duties to be
consolidated therewith ; and also for repealing the Stamp
Duties on Game Certificates, and granting new Duties in
lieu thereof, to be placed under the management of the
Commissioners for the Affairs of Taxes," certain duties of
one shilling and sixpence, two shillings and threepence, and
two shillings and tenpence in the pound respectively were
granted and made payable yearly on all inhabited dwelling
houses throughout Great Britain, according to the value
thereof, as specified in schedule B to the said Act annexed
And whereas by an Act passed in the third and fourth
years of the reign of his present Majesty, intituled " An
Act to reduce certain of the Duties on Dwelling Houses,
and to repeal other Duties of Assessed Taxes," certain re-
duced duties were granted and made payable on inhabited
dwelling houses in certain cases in the said last recited Act
specified, in lieu of the duties so as aforesaid granted and
made payable by the said Act of the forty-eighth year of
King George the Third : _ _ _

And whereas it is expedient to repeal the said duties on
inhabited dwelling houses;
Be it therefore enacted, by the King's most excellent
Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords
spiritual and temporal, and Commons, in this present Par-
liament assembled, and by the authority of the same, that
from and after the fifth day of April, one thousand eight
hundred and thirty-four, the said duties so as aforesaid
granted and made payable on inhabited dwelling houses,
and all compositions in lieu of the said duties, shall cease
and determine, and the same are hereby repealed so far as
relates to any assessment of the duties of assessed taxes, or
of compositions in lieu thereof, to be made for any year
commencing from or after the said fifth day of April, one
thousand eight hundred and thirty-four.
And be it enacted, that where any contract of composi-
tion now in force for any of the duties of assessed taxes doth
include the duty on any inhabited dwelling house or dwell-
ing houses repealed by this Act, it shall be lawful for the
Commissioners acting in the execution of the several Acts
relating to the said duties, in their respective districts, and
they are hereby authorised and required to cause the
amount of the composition payable under such contract,
and the assessments and duplicates relating thereto for any
year commencing as aforesaid, to be reduced to the extent
of the said duty hereby repealed, and of the additional duty
payable thereon by virtue of such contract ; and such re-
duction shall commence and take effect from and after the
said fifth day of April one thousand eight hundred and
thirty-four ; and all such contracts shall be of the sa.bite,
force and effect for the recovery and enforcing payment of
the reduced instalments of composition to all intents and
purposes as if the full amount of the instalments com-
pounded for had continued payable on such contracts.

The .Literary Gazette (No. 894) of Satur-
day, March B—being an Extra sized Sheet, (in 24
quarto pages, of 72 columns, closely printed) fbr the
purpose of keeping pace with the present activity
in publication, &c.— contains a Review, with
Copious Selections, from Sir James Mackintosh's
History of the Revolution in 1688 (unpublished)--
An Engraved View of the Elevation of the National
Gallery, as it is now being built, with the Altera-
tions made in the original Design, of which an
Account is given.—The Book Trade, and Tricks
of the Society of Useful Knowledge, No. IL ;
showing the Folly of Story-Telling and False Critil
eism.—A Vivid Description of a Cornish Mine, by
Mr. John Carne ; and other Original Articles.—
The Adulteration of Teas, Brandies, and Wines.—
The other Reviews are of Four New Novels pub-
lisped within the week : Sir 'Egorton Brydges's
Imaginative Biography, Bubbles of the Brennan,
Keightley's Tales and Popular Fictions, Dyer's
Nine Years of a Strolling Player ; Sir W. Jardine's
Feline ; MlAdite's Feathered Tribes of England ;
Jesse's Gleanings in Natural History, second series ;
recent Religious Books and Practical Works ; &c.
&e.—ln the Fine Arts, Retsch's Macbeth, and
other Novelties ; the British Gallery.—Reports of
the latest Proceedings of every Learned and Scien-
tific Society.—Original Poetry, Music Concerts, the
Drama, Exhibitions and Sights, Biography, Varieties,
Literary Intelligence, &c. &c. London ;W. A,
Scripps, 7, Wellington-street.