waterworks, &c., in the fire offices, and lights, and the king's printing house to pay 4s. per pound; stream or running water brought to the north parts of London, commonly called the New River, or in the Thames waterworks, or in Marybone or in Hampstead waterworks, or in any office or stock for insuring of houses in case of fire, or in any lights, or in the stock or stocks for printing of books in or belonging to the house commonly called the King's Printing House, shall pay for the same the sum of four shillings for every twenty shillings of the full yearly value thereof towards the said sum hereby charged upon England, Wales, and Berwick-upon-Tweed; and they, and all companies of merchants in London, and the Bank of England, and all salaries and pensions (taxable in London) arising and payable at the general post office, and excise office, charged by this act, shall be assessed by the commissioners nominated and appointed for the said city, or any two or more of them, for their respective shares and interests aforesaid, and the aforesaid joint stock or stocks, and for such salaries and pensions; and the same shall be paid by the governors or the respective treasurers or receivers of the said river-waters, and waterworks, and of the said offices and stocks respectively, to such person or persons as the said commissioners, or any two or more of them, shall appoint to collect the same, and be deducted at and out of their next land, Post Office, &c. to dividend; and every person having any salary in respect of any office or employment exercised in the ward of London where the said post office is situated shall be assessed and pay for the same, in the same ward, the said rate of four shillings in the pound towards the said sum by this act charged upon England, Wales, and Berwick-upon-Tweed. which assess ments, and those on all companies of merchants, Bank of Eng be paid by the governors or treasurers. Governors, &c., of the river-waters and water ing to pay, the collectors empowered to levy the sum by distress and sale. the proper 58. Provided always, and it is hereby further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that when and so often as any of the said governors, treasurers, or receivers of the said river-waters, waterworks, offices, or stocks works, refus respectively, shall, upon demand to any of them respectively made by collector or collectors, refuse or neglect to pay the respective sum or sums of money whereat all and every the said person and persons having any share or shares or interest in any of the said river-waters, waterworks, offices, or stocks respectively shall be respectively rated and assessed, then and in all and every such case and cases it shall and may be lawful to and for the said collector or collectors, or any of them, and he, they, and every of them is and are hereby authorized and required, to levy the sum so assessed by distress and sale of the goods and chattels jointly belonging to or held in trust for the persons who shall have such shares or interests in respect whereof such assessments shall be demanded and refused as aforesaid, rendering the overplus, if any shall be, (the charges of such distress and sale being first deducted,) to the governor, treasurer, or receiver of the said river-waters, waterworks, offices, or stocks respectively. King's Bench, Marshalsea prisons, &c. to be as. sessed in St. George's parish, &c. 59. Provided always, and be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that the prison of the King's Bench prison house, lands, gardens, and common side, and all the rents, offices, profits, and perquisites of the marshal and all other officers of the King's Bench prison, and also the prison house, lands, and gardens of the prison of the marshal and of the Marshalsea prison, and all other offices, perquisites, and profits of the Marshalsea court and prison, lying and being in the parish of St. George the Martyr in the borough of Southwark in the county of Surrey, and the judges of the said court, and all counsellors and attornies practising or having a right to practise in the said Marshalsea court, and all profits and fees accruing to them or any of them respectively, shall be charged and assessed to the assessment in the parish of Saint George aforesaid, and not elsewhere, at and after the rate of four shillings in the pound; any thing to the contrary in anywise notwithstanding. Officers of the Marshalsea or Court of King's Bench col missioners, may distrain. 60. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that where any officer or officers belonging to the said prison shall neglect or refuse to pay the sum or sums of money which shall be rated and assessed upon them or any of them by virtue of this act, any two or more of the refusing to commissioners appointed by this act for the said county of Surrey shall lectors, by and may certify, by writing under their hands and seals, such neglect warrant or refusal, and the sum payable by virtue of this act, to the commissioners from com for executing this act in the county or place where such officer or officers reside; and any two or more of such commissioners are hereby authorized and required, upon receipt of such certificate, by warrant under their hands and seals, to authorize and empower the respective collectors of the parish or place where such officer or officers reside to distrain the goods and chattels of such officer or officers, and the distress or distresses so made to detain and keep for the space of four days, and if such officer or officers do not pay the said sum or sums of money for which such distress shall be made as aforesaid within the space of four days, that then the said goods and chattels so distrained as aforesaid shall and may be appraised and sold by two such honest and sufficient persons as the said commissioners who shall sign the said warrant shall nominate and appoint; and the monies arising thereby shall be paid to the collectors of the said parish of Saint George for and towards satisfaction of the said sum and sums of money; and the surplus (if any be) shall be returned to the owner of the said goods, after the charge of the said distress and sale shall be deducted; but in case no goods or chattels of any such officer or If no goods officers can be found sufficient to make good the sum or sums of money so assessed or to be assessed upon him or them as aforesaid, that then it shall and may be lawful for any two or more of the said commissioners, by warrant under their hands and seals to the respective collectors, or such person or persons as they shall think fit, to cause the person or persons of such respective officer or officers of the said prisons, neglecting or refusing to pay as aforesaid, to be apprehended and taken wherever he or they can or may be found, and to be committed to the common gaol where he or they shall happen to be taken, there to remain without bail or mainprize until payment shall be made as aforesaid of the sum or sums of money so charged or assessed upon them as aforesaid, with the charges of such prosecution as aforesaid, to be allowed by the said commissioners, or any two or more of them; any thing in this act contained to the contrary thereof in anywise notwithstanding. 61. Provided also, that the prison of the Fleet prison house, lands, gardens, and the common side, and all the rents, profits, and perquisites of the office of warden of the Fleet, lying and being in the parish of Saint Bridget alias Bride's, London, shall be charged and assessed to the assessment in the said parish of Saint Bridget alias Bride's, London, and not elsewhere; any thing in this act contained to the contrary thereof in anywise notwithstanding. sufficient, officer to be imprisoned. Fleet prison to be assessed in St. Bride's parish. Officers at Stoke Damarel, near Ply mouth, to be 62. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that the officers of his majesty's dock yard now at Stoke Damarel near Plymouth shall be assessed upon this act, for the salaries and other profits within the town and parish of Plymouth, where the salaries of the old dock assessed yard at Plymouth in the year one thousand six hundred and ninety-three within the were assessed, and not elsewhere, so as the full proportion which was assessed upon the said town and parish of Plymouth in the said year one thousand six hundred and ninety-three be again assessed thereon by town of Plymouth. Hospital at East Stonehouse to be assessed also within the town of Plymouth. 201. to be paid out of the sum as sessed on the said officers to East Stonehouse. Commissioners, &c. of the stamp office to be assessed in Shire Lane ward. A certain portion of ment to be may be re- Commissioners, &c. of the victual ling office to be assessed in the manor of East Smithfield. virtue of this act, and so as the said parish of Stoke Damarel be not charged with a greater proportion, in respect of the said salaries and profits, than they were in the said year one thousand six hundred and ninety-three; any thing hereinbefore contained to the contrary notwithstanding. 63. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that the officers of his majesty's hospital for sick and hurt seamen in the parish of East Stonehouse near Plymouth shall be assessed upon this act, for their salaries and other profits of their places within the town and borough of Plymouth, where the salaries of the said officers in the year one thousand seven hundred and fifty-nine were assessed, and not elsewhere, so as the full proportion which was assessed upon the said town and borough of Plymouth in the year one thousand seven hundred and fifty-nine be again assessed thereon by virtue of this act, and so as the said parish of East Stonehouse be not charged with a greater proportion, in respect of the said salaries and profits, than they were in the said year, any thing herein contained to the contrary thereof notwithstanding. 64. Provided always, that out of the sum to be assessed on the officers of the said hospital for sick and hurt seamen there shall be paid to the collectors of the land tax for the parish of East Stonehouse the sum of twenty pounds, to be applied in aid of the assessment to be laid upon the said parish by virtue of this act. 65. And be it further enacted, that the commissioners, clerks, and other officers from time to time appointed and employed to manage the duties charged upon stamped vellum, parchment, and paper, shall be assessed upon this act, for their salaries and other profits of their places, in Shire Lane ward within the division of Saint Clements Danes and Saint Mary-le-Strand in the liberty of Westminster, where the salaries and other profits of the said commissioners, clerks, and other officers in the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty-five were assessed, and not elsewhere, so as the full proportion which was assessed on the said division of Saint Clement Danes and Saint Mary-le-Strand in the liberty of Westminster in the said year one thousand seven hundred and eightyfive be again assessed thereon by virtue of this act, and so as any other division, district, parish or place to which the said office are or may be removed be not charged with a greater proportion in respect of the said salaries and profits than it was in the said year one thousand seven hun dred and eighty-five, any thing herein contained to the contrary thereof notwithstanding: Provided always, that out of the sum to be assessed on the said commissioners, clerks, and other officers of the said duties charged upon stamped vellum, parchment and paper, there shall be paid to the collectors of the land tax for the division, district, parish or place to which the said office are or may be removed, one fourth part thereof, and also the whole of the land tax for all additional commissioners, clerks and other additional officers of the said duties which shall or may have been created since the twenty-fifth day of December in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-five, or which shall or may be hereafter created, to be applied in aid of the assessment to be laid upon the said division, district, parish or place, by virtue of this act. 66. And be it further enacted, that the commissioners, clerks and other officers from time to time appointed and employed in the office for victualling his majesty's navy shall be assessed upon this act, for their salaries and other profits of their places, in, to or for the manor of East Smithfield in the parish of Saint Botolph without Aldgate, within the Tower division in the county of Middlesex, and not elsewhere, so as the full proportion which was assessed on the said manor and parish be again assessed thereon by virtue of this act, and so as any other division, district, parish or place to which the said office are or may be removed be not charged with a greater proportion, in respect of the said salaries and profits, or any part thereof, than it was on the twenty-fifth day of December one thousand seven hundred and eighty-five: Provided always, that out of the sums to be assessed on the said commissioners, clerks and other officers there shall be paid to the collectors of the land tax for the division, district, parish or place to which the said office are or may be removed, one fourth part of the sum or sums which may be assessed on all such commissioners, clerks and other officers of the said office as have been created or appointed between the fifteenth day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand six hundred and ninety-two and the twenty-fifth day of December in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-five, and also the whole of the land tax for all additional commissioners, clerks and other additional officers of the said office which shall or may have been created or appointed since the twenty-fifth day of December one thousand seven hundred and eighty-five, or which shall or may be hereafter created or appointed, to be applied in aid of the assessment to be laid upon the said division, district, parish or place, by virtue of this act. ers of the the wards of A certain portion of ments to be paid to the such assess 67. And be it further enacted, that the commissioners, clerks and Commissionother officers from time to time appointed and employed to transact and manage the affairs and business of the navy pay office and navy office respectively, shall be assessed upon this act, for their salaries and other profits of their places, in the wards of Broad Street and Tower respectively, and not elsewhere, so as the full proportion which was assessed on the said wards of Broad Street and Tower respectively be continued to be assessed thereon by virtue of this act, and so as any other division, district, parish or place to which the said offices, or either of them, are or may be removed, be not charged with a greater proportion, in respect of the said salaries and profits, or any part thereof, than it was on the twenty-fifth day of December in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-five: Provided always, that out of the sums to be assessed on the said commissioners, clerks and other officers employed to transact and manage the affairs and business of the navy pay office and navy office aforesaid respectively there shall be paid to the collectors of the land tax for the division, district, parish or place to which the said offices, or either the district to of them, are or may be removed, one fourth part of the sum or sums which may be assessed on all such commissioners, clerks and other officers of the said offices respectively as have been created or appointed between the fifteenth day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand six hundred and ninety-two and the twenty-fifth day of December in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-five, and also the whole of the land tax for all additional commissioners, clerks and other additional officers of the said offices respectively which shall or may have been created or appointed since the said twenty-fifth day of December one thousand seven hundred and eighty-five, or which shall or may be hereafter created or appointed, to be applied in aid of the assessment to be laid upon the said division, district, parish or place, by virtue of this act. 68. [Commissioners, &c. of salt office to be assessed in Saint Martin's parish; a certain portion of such assessment to be paid to the collectors for the district to which such office may be removed.]—Expired. collectors for which such offices may be removed. Commission ers of the tax office, &c. to be assessed in the district for offices in Westminster Hall. A certain portion of such assessments to be paid to the collectors for the district to which such office may be removed. Waterworks in Southwark in Surrey. 69. And be it further enacted, that the commissioners of the tax office, and such of their officers as are taxable for their respective offices or employments under this act, shall be assessed upon this act in the district for offices in Westminster Hall, within the city and liberty of Westminster, where the salaries and other profits of the said commissioners and other officers in the year one thousand seven hundred and eightyeight were assessed, and not elsewhere, so as the full proportion which was assessed on the said district for offices in Westminster Hall be continued to be assessed thereon by virtue of this act, and so as any other division, district, parish or place to which the said office has been or may be removed be not charged with a greater proportion, in respect of the said salaries and profits, or any part thereof, than it was in the said year one thousand seven hundred and eighty-eight: Provided always, that out of the sum to be assessed on the said commissioners and their said officers there shall be paid to the collectors of the land tax for the division, district, parish or place to which the said office is or may be removed, one third part thereof, and also the whole of the land tax for all additional commissioners, clerks and other officers of the tax office which shall or may be hereafter appointed and employed, to be applied in aid of the assessment to be laid upon the said division, district, parish or place, by virtue of this act. 70. Provided always, and be it further enacted by the authority to be assessed aforesaid, that all the waterworks in the borough of Southwark shall be rated and assessed in the said borough of Southwark, and not elsewhere, by the commissioners and assessors of the county of Surrey, and not by the commissioners and assessors of the city of London, and that the said waterworks be assessed according to the clear yearly profits thereof; any thing herein contained to the contrary notwithstanding. Waterworks in Westmin ster to be assessed there. Offices, &c. and St. James to be there 71. Provided always, and be it enacted, that the waterworks in the city and liberty of Westminster shall be rated and assessed by the commissioners and assessors of the city and liberty of Westminster, and not by the commissioners and assessors of the city of London; any thing herein contained to the contrary notwithstanding. 72. Provided always, that all offices and places which were rated of Whitehall and assessed within the palaces of Whitehall and Saint James in and for the years one thousand seven hundred and three and one thousand seven hundred and four, or either of them, (except such as are exempted by this act,) shall be rated and assessed within the said palaces, and in no other place whatsoever. assessed. 22 Geo. 3, c. 82. 73. And whereas by an act of parliament made and passed in the twenty-second year of his present Majesty's reign, intituled "An Act for enabling His Majesty to discharge the Debt contracted upon His Civil List Revenues, and for preventing the same from being in arrear for the future, by regulating the Mode of Payments out of the said Revenues, and by suppressing or regulating certain Offices therein mentioned, which are now paid out of the Revenues of the Civil List," the office of paymaster of the pensions, amongst others, is suppressed, abolished and taken away; and it is thereby also enacted, that no pension whatsoever on the civil establishment shall thereafter be paid but at the Exchequer, and in the same manner as those pensions which were then paid and entered at the Exchequer under the head, title and description of pensions, and that those which were transferred thither by the said act shall be subject to no taxes or fees whatsoever, except the taxes and fees to which before the said act they were subject: and whereas the pensions which were before the passing of the said act payable at the office of the paymaster of the |