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POLICE AND LIGHTING RATES ORDINANCE.
V. It shall be lawful for any Person continued or appointed under
Valuators may in exe- this Ordinance to require the Owner or Occupier of any Tenement to cution of this Ordinance furnish him with such particulars as are set forth in Form I in the require Occupier or Own Schedule hereunto annexed, and from time to time to enter into and of the Rent or annual er to furnish particulars
upon such Tenement for the purpose of making any Valuation Value of any Tenement authorized by this Ordinance; Provided always that in every case in and may enter the same. which it shall be necessary for any such Person to enter any Tenement, and when the Owner or Occupier thereof shall oppose or refuse to allow such entry, such Person shall give One Day's notice to the Owner or Occupier of such Tenement requiring to be permitted to enter the same and at any reasonable time after the expiration of such Notice it shall be lawful to make such entry, such Person doing as little damage as may be in the execution of the powers hereby granted; Provided also that in every case in which such Penalty for prevent- Owner or Occupier shall refuse or fail to furnish such particulars for ing such entry or refusing the
to furnish correct parti- of One Week from the Day on which he shall have been
culars. required so to do or shall knowingly furnish false or incorrect part- iculars, or shall after the expiration of the Notice aforsaid hinder obstruct or prevent any Person continued or appointed under this Ordinance from entering or inspecting any such Tenement he shall be liable on conviction before a Stipendiary Magistrate to a penalty not exceeding One Hundred Dollars.
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VI. In every Valuation to be made under the provisions of this
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Annual Value how to
Ordinance the Person so appointed to make such Valuation as afore- be ascertained. said shall cause every Tenement to be separately valued and such Valuation shall be made upon an estimate of the gross annual Rent at which such Tenement might reasonably be expected to let from Year to Year. The value of a Tenement so estimated shall not include the value of any Machinery therein.
Valuator to distinguish all Religious Edifices, Houses of a public nature or used for Charitable Purposes, &c., which shall be exempted from Assessment.
VII. In making out the Lists or Tables of Valuation hereinafter mentioned the Valuator shall distinguish all Religious Edifices, Hospit- als, Cemeteries and Tenements or portions of the same of a public nature or used for Charitable purposes or for the purposes of Science, Literature or Fine Arts as specified in an Act of the Imperial Parliament made and passed in the Session thereof holden in the Sixth and Seventh | Years of the Reign of Her present Majesty, Chapter Thirty-six, and the value of the same shall be deducted from the gross amount of the Valuation of the Tenements comprised in such Lists or Tables, and all such Edifices, Hospitals and Cemeteries and all such Tenements or portions of the same so distinguished and deducted shall for the purposes of this Ordinance be deemed exempt from all Assessment whatever so long as they shall continue to be exclusively of a religious or public nature, or used exclusively for the purposes
aforesaid. VIII. At a period of not less than Fourteen Days preceding the time fixed for appeal as hereinafter provided, it shall be the duty of the Persons so appointed to make such Valuation to leave or cause to be left with the Occupier of the Tenement so valued or with some Person resident therein a Notice in writing of such Valuation having been made and of the amount thereof; Provided always that non-compliance with this enactment by such Persons shall not have the effect of invalidating the Valuation of such Tenement or of relieving the party liable from payment of the rate or assessment in respect thereof.
IX. When and as soon as the Valuation of the Tenements so directed to be made as aforesaid shall be completed, the Person so appointed to make such Valuation shall prepare and make out a List or Table of the several Tenements so valued and of their respective Valuations and shall lay the same before the Governor and shall at the foot of such List or Table make and subscribe in the presence of the Governor or Colonial Secretary a Declaration to the effect that the same contains a true account of all Valuations made by such Person and
Notice of Valuation in writing to be given to the Occupier and of the amount thereof.
Lists of Valuation when completed to be laid before Governor, at be subscribed declaration the foot of which is to that the same contains an account of all Valu- . ations and is in other
respects correct.