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Commissioners for the Purposes of the Act to be chosen from the Commissioners of Land Tax, at a General Meeting convened buy Sheriffs.
Manner of choosing acting commissioners,
and for supplying Vacancies.
For want of Land Tax Commissioners other fit Persons residing in the District may be named.
Or from adjoining District.
None other to act.
With Powers to Commissioners before appointed to continue to act.
Time of holding the First Meeting.
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IV. And whereas it is expedient to appoint Commissioners for the General Purposes of this Act, from and amongst the Persons appointed Commissioners for the Execution of an Act, passed in the Thirty-eighth Year of the Reign of His present Majesty, intituled, An Act for granting, an Aid to His Majesty, by a Land Tax to be raised in Great Britain, for the Service of the Year One thousand seven hundred and ninety eight, to act in the Execution of this Act, so far as relates to the Powers hereby vested in such Commissioners; be it further enacted, That the several Persons appointed, or to be appointed to be Commissioners for putting in Execution the said Land Tax Act, in the respective Parts of Great Britain therein mentioned, being respectively qualified to act as Commissioners in the Execution of the said Act, shall meet at such Place within each County, Shire, or Stewartry, and within each Riding of York and Division of Lincoln, and within each City, Borough; Cinque Port, Town, and Place, for which they are respectively appointed Commissioners of the said Land Tax Act, as shall have been the usual and common Place of holding the General Meetings of Commissioners under the said Land Tax Act; or if such General Meeting shall not have been usually held in any such County, Riding, Division, Shire, Stewartry, City, Borough, Cinque Port, Town, or Place, then at the usual Place where the Quarter Sessions shall be usually held therein, in the Week after the Close of Easter, or next after Easter in every Year; which Meetings shall be convened by the respective Sheriffs of Counties in England and Wales, and by the respective Sheriffs Depute or Substitute of Counties or Shires in Scotland, and by the respective Chief Magistrates of all Boroughs, Cinque Ports, Towns, and Places in Great Britain, and shall be held between the First Day of March and the Fifth Day of April yearly, in every Year, after Notice given to such Officers by the Commissioners for the Affairs of Taxes; and at each such General Meeting the said Commissioners of Land Tax, or the major Part of them then present, shall choose and set down in Writing the Names of such of the Commissioners appointed as aforesaid, who shall respectively be qualified as herein-after is required, and who shall be fit and proper to act in the several Hundreds, Rapes, Lathes, Wapentakes, or Wards, within the said Counties, Ridings, or Shires, Stewartires, or Divisions, or in the several Parishes or Wards of the said Cities, Boroughs, Cinque Ports, Towns, and Places within the same, observing always in forming such Districts the same Limits which shall have been settled for the Districts under the said Land Tax Act; and the Names of such Persons who shall be so chosen, shall be set down in the Order in which the major Part of the Commissioners then present shall judge fit they should respectively be appointed Commissioners in their respective Districts, and any Seven, or any less Number than Seven not being in any Case less than Three, of the Persons so set down, and in the Order in which they shall be so set down, in such List, shall be Commissioners for the general Purposes of this Act, and of the Duties granted by the said recited Act, and they are hereby required to take upon themselves the Execution of this Act as aforesaid, and of the said Duties, as such Commissioners for general Purposes; and any Seven, or any less Number than Seven not being in any Case less than Three, of the Persons so set down next in Order to the List of Names before mentioned, shall be Commissioners to supply Vacancies as the same may arise, in the Manner herein-after mentioned: Provided always, that if the Commissioners appointed as herein is first mentioned, shall not find amongst themselves, and set down the Names of Seven Persons to act, and Seven others to supply Vacancies for each District, within such County, Riding, Division, Shire, Stewartry, City, Liberty, or Place, it shall be lawful for them to appoint any Person or Persons residing within such District, who shall respectively be qualified as herein-after is required, and who in their Judgement shall be fit and proper Persons to be Commissioners for the the Purposes aforesaid, until the Number of Seven in each such List shall be completed, although such Persons shall not have been appointed to act as Commissioners in the Execution of the said Land Tax Act: Provided also, that if at such Meeting the Commissioners shall not find and set down Fourteen Persons of the Descriptions before mentioned to act as Commissioners, and to supply Vacancies in each such District, it shall be lawful for them to select such Number of Persons as shall be requisite, from the Persons acting in or for any adjoining or neighbouring District of the same County, Riding, Division, Shire, Stewartry, City, Town, or Place, in order that there shall be no Failure in the Execution of this Act as aforesaid; and the Names of such respective Persons who shall have been so chosen as aforesaid, shall be transmitted to the Tax Office in the Order in which they shall have been set down in such Lists: Provided always, that where Seven Persons qualified as herein-after is required, shall be chosen to act as Commissioners for any District as aforesaid, no other Person shall interfere as a Commissioner in the Execution of this Act, so long as such Seven Persons shall continue to act, except in the Districts herein-after mentioned: Provided also, that where any Commissioner or Commissioners appointed to execute the said Act of the Forty-third Year of His present Majesty, for granting the said recited Duties, and acting as such at and immediately before the passing of this Act, shall signify to such Meeting, either personally or by Writing, his or their Consent to continue to act as such Commissioner or Commissioners, then and in such Case the said Commissioners of Land Tax present at such Meeting, shall be confined at such Meeting to the Appointment of such and so many Persons to be Commissioners for the Purposes of this and the said recited Act, or to supply Vacancies, as shall be necessary to complete the Number required by this Act, above the Number so consenting to act as aforesaid: Provided also, that such General Meetings as aforesaid, shall and may for the present Year be holden at any Time before the Tenth Day of October next after the passing of this Act.
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