another of the said transcripts shall be deposited in the registry of the consistory court of the lord bishop of London, to be kept and preserved as aforesaid; another of the said transcripts shall remain and be kept in the vestry of such respective parish, for a perpetual memorial as before mentioned; and the remaining transcript shall be delivered within three days after such subscription to the incumbent of such respective parish, and the said assessments shall continue in force and be acted upon until any new assessment shall be made in pursuance of this act. VII. And, for the further and better payment of the said respective sums of money so to be assessed or taxed, towards raising the maintenance of the said respective parsons, vicars, and curates of the said respective parishes as aforesaid; be it further enacted, that all and every such respective sum and sums of money so to be assessed and taxed as aforesaid towards the raising of the said maintenance, shall be payable to the said respective parsons, vicars, and curates of the said respective parishes, and their successors respectively or their agents, receivers, or collectors, on the following days in every year, that is to say, the twenty-fifth day of December, the twenty-fifth day of March, the twenty-fourth day of June, and the twenty-ninth day of September, or within thirty days after each of the said days, by equal payments free and clear of all manner of taxes, assessments, and deductions whatsoever, affecting the said respective sums of money. 1804. Fixing the time for payment of sums as sessed. tors to continue to pay what they accustomed to pay. have been VIII. And whereas in certain of the parishes herein-before Improprianamed there are impropriations; and the impropriators were, as herein-before is mentioned by the said recited act, directed to pay and allow what really and bona fide they had used and ought to have paid and satisfied to the respective incumbents of the said parishes before the said fire, which said payments were to be esteemed and computed as part of the maintenance of such incumbents; be it therefore further enacted, that in the parishes of St. Bridget otherwise St. Bride's, St. Bennet Fink, St. Mary Aldermanbury, St. Stephen Coleman Street, Alhallows the Less, Christ Church, St. Lawrence Jewry, St. Lawrence Pountney, and St. Mary Cole Church, the impropriators shall continue to allow and pay to the respective incumbents of the same parishes what they have been accustomed to allow and pay before and since the passing of the said recited act of the twenty-second and twenty-third years of the reign of king Charles the second, which said sums shall be paid to the incumbents of the same respective parishes, in part of the respective sums herein-before appointed to be the certain annual maintenance of the same respective incumbents. IX. And whereas two-third parts of the impropriate tythes of the parish of St. Sepulchre are vested in trustees, in trust for the Directing the vicar of chre's to receive the full sum directed by this act, in stead of the one third part of the impropriate tythes he is entitled to. 1804. parishioners of that parish; and the vicar of the said parish is endowed with the remaining third part of the said impropriate tythes; be it therefore further enacted, that the said vicar shall, from and after the twenty-ninth day of September one thousand eight hundred and four, receive the full sum directed by this act to be paid him for his maintenance, in lieu of the third part of the said impropriate tythes to which by virtue of his endowment he is entitled from the several inhabitants, of or from or out of, or for, or in respect of the several houses, tenements, and other hereditaments situated within that part of the said parish of St. Sepulchre which lies within the liberties of the city of London, but exclusive of and over and above the third part of the tythes to which he is entitled, from the inhabitants of, or from, or out of, or for or in respect of the several houses, tenements, or other hereditaments situate within that part of the said parish which lies within the county of Middlesex; and that, from and after the said twenty-ninth day of September one thousand eight hundred and four, the said third part of the said impropriate tythes, due from the inhabitants of or from, or out of, or in respect of the several houses, tenements, or other hereditaments situate within that part of the said parish of St. Sepulchre which lies within the said liberties of the city of London, shall cease and determine, and be no longer paid or payable. For continuing certain com out of the city cham of houses taken X. And whereas in several of the aforesaid parishes divers houses and other buildings have been taken down, for the improvement of pensations the city of London, by order of the lord mayor, aldermen, and common council of the said city, or have been taken down or altered by ber, in lieu other corporate bodies or publick companies or persons for other purposes; and as a compensation in respect thereof, certain down, &c. yearly sums have been regularly paid by the chamber of the said city, or by such corporate bodies or publick companies, or persons, to the incumbents of the parishes wherein the houses and buildings so taken down were respectively situate, which yearly sums are equal to the yearly sums paid under the before recited act, to the said incumbents, in respect of the said houses and other buildings so taken down; and it may happen that other houses and buildings may be hereafter taken down or altered for similar purposes; be it therefore further enacted, that the several yearly sums of money, which such incumbents respectively have been accustomed, or are or may be entitled to receive from the chamber of London, or from any other corporate body or bodies, company or companies, or from any person or persons whomsoever, in respect of the said houses and other buildings so taken down, shall respectively be and continue to be paid and payable to the said incumbents respectively, and their respective successors, in aid and as part of the several sums herein-before authorized to be raised by assessments, for the benefit of the said incumbents respectively, but so nevertheless as not to exonerate any dwelling-house, shop, warehouse, or other building, in the occupation of any private person or persons, from the payment of the sum or sums for tythes or in lieu of tythes to be assessed by virtue of this act; but that the said sum or sums so to be assesssed and paid for or in respect of any such dwelling-house, shop, warehouse, or other building, shall be received and taken by the incumbent of any parish in which the same shall be situate, in part of the sum or sums by this act authorized to be raised for the benefit of such respective incumbent. 1804. ney shall be case of re fusal of pay XI. And be it further enacted, that if any of the inhabitants in Directing any of the respective parishes aforesaid shall refuse or neglect to pay how the moto the respective incumbents of any of the said respective parishes recovered in any sum or sums of money to him or them respectively payable, or appointed to be paid by virtue of this act, or any part thereof, ment. contrary to the true intent and meaning of this act, (being lawfully demanded by the said respective incumbents, or their agents or receivers, or collectors either in person or by writing left at the house or houses, wharf, quay, crane, cellar, or other premises out of which the same is payable) that then it shall be lawful for the lord mayor, or any other magistrate of the city of London for the time being, upon oath to be made before him of such refusal or neglect, to give and grant warrants for the officer or person appointed to collect the same, with the assistance of a constable, in the day-time, to levy the same sums of money so due and in arrear and unpaid, by distress and sale of the goods and chattels of the party or parties so refusing or neglecting to pay, or the goods and chattels of the occupier or occupiers for the time being, of the tenements or hereditaments in respect whereof such arrears shall be due or owing, restoring to the owner or owners the overplus of such goods, or the overplus of the monies produced by such sale, over and above the said arrears of the said monies so due and unpaid, and the reasonable charges of making such distress, which he is to deduct out of the monies raised by sale of such goods. Proviso that if the sums assessed shall be paid in manner tioned, they after men shall not be raised as XII. Provided always nevertheless, and it is hereby further enacted and declared, that notwithstanding any thing herein-before contained, in case, and when and so often as all or any of the respective annual maintenances or sums by this act appointed to be raised and paid or so much of them respectively, or of any of them, as shall exceed what the respective impropriators before mentioned are by this act enjoined respectively to allow, shall respectively be before diassessed and raised, by the ways and means and in the manner herein-after authorized and directed, and paid to the said respective incumbents, or their respective agents or collectors, or receivers, within thirty days next after the several quarterly days herein rected. 1804. Power for churchwar dens, &c. to assessments. before appointed for the payment thereof, without any deduction or abatement whatsoever, then and in every such case from time to time, such of the same respective annual maintenances or sums, or such part or parts thereof respectively as shall be so paid, shall not be raised or paid as herein-before is directed, but by the ways and means and in the manner herein-after authorized and appointed in that behalf. XIII. And be it further enacted, that it shall be lawful for the churchwardens or churchwarden (if but one) of the respective pamake yearly rishes wherein the maintenances aforesaid, are respectively to be assessed, and to and for any one or more of the parishioners, to be yearly appointed in vestry by the inhabitants of such respective parishes (the first of such vestries in each parish to be summoned by the said respective churchwardens or churchwarden, and held within twenty-one days next after the passing of this act) to assemble and meet together yearly and every year at some convenient and seasonable time before the thirty-first day of July next after such appointment, in some convenient place within every of the respective parishes wherein the maintenances aforesaid are to be assessed; and the said churchwardens or churchwarden, and the parishioner or parishioners to be appointed as aforesaid, or the major part of them so assembled in and for each respective parish, are hereby authorized and empowered yearly before the twentyfirst day of August in every year, by an equal rate upon all houses, shops, warehouses, cellars, wharfs, quays, cranes, waterhouses (each waterhouse to be paid for in the parish where it stands only) tofts of ground, remaining unbuilt, or other hereditament or hereditaments whatsoever (except parsonage and vicarage houses) within such respective parish, to assess the whole of the respective sum by this act appointed to be paid in lieu of tythes within such respective parish, for or towards such maintenance as aforesaid, or so much of it as shall exceed what the respective impropriators (if any) are herein-before by this act enjoined respectively to allow, together with the charges of making such respective rate or assessment, and collecting the money so assessed, and all other incidental charges relating thereto, the same to be payable and paid quarterly on the several days first herein-before appointed for the payment of the said maintenance; and the said churchwardens or churchwarden, and parishioner or parishioners, to be yearly appointed as aforesaid, or the major part of them so assembled in and for each respective parish, shall and they are hereby further authorized to collect and receive the sums so by them to be assessed, as and when the same shall become due, and with or out of the same or otherwise to pay and discharge the respective maintenance for and in respect whereof the same shall have been assessed respectively, within thirty days next after each quarterly day of payment first herein-before appointed for the payment of such maintenance, without any deduction or abatement whatsoever, and thereupon also to retain, pay, and discharge all such incidental charges and expences as aforesaid. 1804. tioned as XIV. And be it further enacted, that in case any person or per- Power of appeal sons shall think himself, herself, or themselves aggrieved by any against the rate or assessment to be made as last aforesaid, it shall be lawful last menfor him, her, or them respectively, to appeal to the court of mayor sessments. and aldermen of the said city, whose decision shall be final and, conclusive: provided always, that notice of such appeal shall be left in writing at the office of the town clerk of the said city, and also at the house of the churchwarden or of the vestry clerk of the respective parish for which the assessment complained of shall be made, within ten days next after the sum so rated and assessed shall be demanded, and such appeal shall be made to the next court of mayor and aldermen of the said city, after such notice shall be so left as aforesaid. Power for recovering the sums the church XV. And be it further enacted, that if the owner or owners, or occupier of any house or other hereditament which shall be rated and assessed by virtue or in pursuance of this act, by the ways and assessed by means, and in the manner last hereby authorized and directed, wardens, shall refuse or neglect by the space of fourteen days next after his, &c. her, or their respective rate or rates, assessment or assessments shall be due, and shall be demanded by the churchwardens or churchwarden, and parishioner or parishioners to whom the same ought to be paid (such demand being left in writing at the house, shop, warehouse, cellar, wharf, quay, crane, waterhouse, toft, or other hereditaments or premises possessed, rented or occupied by him, her, or them, so rated, and assessed) to pay such rate or rates, assessment or assessments, so demanded as aforesaid, unless notice of appeal shall have been left as last before mentioned; or if any such notice be left, and if such appeal shall not be made accordingly, to the next court of mayor and aldermen as aforesaid, then and in every such case it shall be lawful for such churchwardens or churchwarden, and parishioner or parishioners, every or any of them, having a warrant or warrants under the hand and seal of the lord mayor, or any other magistrate of the said city, (which warrant or warrants the said churchwardens or churchwarden, and parishioner or parishioners, is and are hereby required to apply for, and the lord mayor or any other magistrate of the said city, is hereby authorized and required to grant,) and with the assistance of a constable, or any peace officer of the ward, county, city, or liberty, where the person or persons, party or parties, so refusing or neglecting, shall reside, there to seize and distrain any of |