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art, or calling of such person or persons not declared, and shall make an entry of such name and rank, or trade, or dealing, or profession, or art, or calling, and of the amount such person or persons have to contribute on his assessment roll.
XIII. Every person rated under this Regulation may at any time before the 1st day of July in each year by writing addressed to the Chief Civil Commissioner object to his rate, or to that of other persons whom he may have declared, and such objection or bom objections objections shall be decided by a committee to be composed of the Chief Civil Commis- sioner and the members of the Board of Civil Commissioners, and such committee shall assemble between the 20th and the 25th day of the month of July, both days inclusive, every year, and every decision of such committee shall be final, and shall during or at the expiration of such period be forwarded to the warden, who shall inform such persons objecting of the decision of the Committee on their respective objections and amend his assessment roll accordingly.
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XIV. Every person rated as aforesaid shall on or before the 1st day of August in each year pay or cause to be paid to the warden of the ward of that portion of the said immoveable property whereon the said occupier resides, or to any person duly authorised to act on his behalf as herein-after provided, the amount of rate due by him for the current year, and upon such payment such warden or such duly authorised person shall deliver to such person a receipt for the sum paid.
XV. It shall be lawful for the Chief Civil Commissioner to authorise some other person than the warden of the ward wherein any declaration has been made under Clause VIII. of this Regulation to receive payment of the rates declared to be due in virtue of such declaration, and to authorise such person to give a valid receipt therefor: Provided always, that such person so authorised as aforesaid shall pay the sum or sums so received by him into the treasury to the credit of the ward wherein such rate would otherwise have been paid: And provided also that such person receiving such rates inform, as soon as possible after the receipt thereof, the warden of the ward to whom such rate should otherwise have been paid and the amount paid in relation thereto; provided also that the five per cent. commission mentioned in Clause V. of this Regulation shall in such cases be still received by the warden of the ward wherein such rates were primarily payable.
XVI. It shall be lawful for the Chief Civil Commissioner to appoint two or more places within any single ward for the making of declarations under Clause VIII. of this Regulation, as well as for the payment of rates made in virtue of such declaration; ations and pay Provided that it shall be the duty of the wardens in their respective wards to notify by public notices to be posted in such localities as shall be designated by the Chief Civil Commissioner the places at which the said declarations can be made and the said payments effected. Such public notice as aforesaid shall be posted up previous to the 15th day of the month of May in each year.
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XVII. If on the 1st day of August in any year any rate or any rate and surcharge of rate due under the provisions of this Regulation have not been paid by such persons by whom such rates are due, as herein-after provided, the occupier of the immoveable property on which such persons reside, and by whom such persons were declared, shall be held responsible for such rates or rates and surcharge of rates, and such rate or rate and surcharge shall be recovered from such occupier in the manner herein-after provided.
XVIII. It shall be lawful for every such occupier, who, being held responsible for the rates of the persons residing on the immoveable property of which he is the occupier, has paid such rates to recover the same from such person, but no surcharge of rate shall be recovered by such occupier from such
person,
XIX. If after the 1st day of August in any year any rate and surcharge of rate due under the provisions of this Regulation shall have remained unpaid the persons held responsible as aforesaid shall be prosecuted before the district fudge, who upon con- viction shall sentence the person so prosecuted to pay double the amount of rate, or rate and surcharge, for which such person shall be prosecuted, and in default of such payment to undergo one day's imprisonment for each shilling of the amount such person has been sentenced to pay.
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XX. The date at which the contribution of labour shall be made by those who under Notice to be gires Clause VI. of this Regulation have elected to labour shall be fixed from time to time by in labour is required an officer authorised to do so by the Chief Civil Commissioner, which officer shall give from such persons na to such persons a reasonable notice of not less than one week of the date when such work.
may have elected to contribution shall be required.
XXI. If such person does not obey, or does not show any reasonable cause for not Penalty for refusing obeying such notice, the district judge shall, on proof that such notice has reached such to work. person, condemn such person to imprisonment at the rate of two days imprisonment for every day's labour for which such person shall have been declared liable.
XXII. Prosecutions under this Regulation shall be made by any member of the police Proscentions, by force before the district judge.
whom to be made.
XXIII. The word "person" in this Regulation shall be held to include females as Interpretation of well as males.
terms,
take effect.
XXIV. This Regulation shall come into force from the 1st day of January in the Regulation, when to year 1875.
Passed by the Board of Civil Commissioners at Port Victoria, Mahé, the 13th day of August 1874.
A. E. HAVELOCK,
Acting Chief Civil Commissioner. Confirmed this 25th day of August in the year of our Lord 1874.
ARTHUR H, GORDON,
CLASS I.
SCHEDULE.
Every owner or occupier of immovable property the amount of the annual locative value of which is not less than one hundred pounds sterling.
CLASS II.
Every owner or occupier of immovable property, the amount of the annual locative value of which is not less than fifty pounds sterling, and does not amount to one hundred pounds.
CLASS III.
Every owner or occupier of immovable property, the annual locative value of which is not less than twenty pounds sterling, and does not amount to fifty pounds.
CLASS IV.
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Twenty-four shillings, and twelve shillings additional for every addi- tional 100% of annual locativė value.
One pound sterling,
Fourteen shillings.
Every owner or occupier of immovable property, the annual locative Twelve shillings,
value of which is not less than ten pounds sterling, and does not amount to twenty pounds.
CLASS V.
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Every person deriving from whatever source an annual income of not❘ Twenty-four shillings, and twelve
less than one hundred pounds sterling.
shillings for every additional 100%. of income.
CLASS VI.
Every holder of a license other than a fishing or toddy license, and Sixteen shillingi.
every person deriving from whatever source an income of not less than three but not exceeding four pounds sterling per mensern,
CLASS VII,
Every employer of any other person in business or labour of any kind
not rateable under any of the foregoing classes.
CLASS VIII.
Twelve shillings.
Every person deriving from whatever source an income of not less Eight shillings.
than one pound sterling and not exceeding two pounds per mensem.
CLASS IX.
Every male between the age of fifteen and fifty years not included in
any of the previous classes,
Six shillings.
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