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ORDINANCE No. 5 OF 1863 . 551


Police and Lighting Rates.
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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 machi
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nery contained therein .
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7. In making out the lists or tables of valuation hereinafter mentioned the valuator Valuator to dis
tinguish all L
shall distinguish all religious edifices, hospitals, cemeteries and tenements or portions religious edifices,
houses of a
of the same of a public nature or used for charitable purposes or for the purposes of public nature or
used for charit
able purposes,
science, literature or fine arts as specified in an Act of the Imperial Parliament made &c., which shall
be exempted
and passed in the Session thereof holden in the sixth and seventh years of the reign of from assessment.
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Her present Majesty, chapter thirty-six, and the value of the same shall be deducted 1
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 por 1
tions of the same so distinguished and deducted shall for the purposes of this Ordi
nance 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.

8. At a period of not less than fourteen days preceding the time fixed for appeal Notice ofvalua
tion in writing if
as hereinafter provided , it shall be the duty of the persons so appointed to make such to be given to 7
Occupier and of
valuation to leave or cause to be left with the occupier of the tenement so valued or the amount
thereof.
with some person resident therein a notice in writing of such valuation having been
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made and of the amount thereof ; Provided always that non-compliance with this Lo
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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.
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9. When and as soon as the valuation of the tenements so directed to be made as Lists of valuation P
when completed I
aforesaid shall be completed, the person so appointed to make such valuation shall to be laid before
Governor, at the
foot of which is
prepare and make out a list or table of the several tenements so valued and of their to be subscribed
declaration that
respective valuations and shall lay the same before the Governor and shall at the foot the same con +
tains an account
of such list or table make and subscribe in the presence of the Governor or Colonial of all valuations
and is in other
Secretary a declaration to the effect that the same contains a true account of all valu respects correct.
ations made by such person and that the said list or table is to the best of his know #
ledge and belief correct in all other particulars.

10. The Governor shall cause to be deposited with some person such list or table List or copy to
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or an examined copy thereof, and notice of the place where the same may be inspected with liberty to
owner or oceu
shall be published in the Government Gazette, and any person in whose custody such pier ofa tene
ment to inspect "
such list or table.
list or table or copy thereof may be shall at any reasonable time within fourteen days #
from the publication of such notice permit every owner or occupier of a tenement
included therein to inspect the same and take any extracts therefrom without payment
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of any fee or reward in that behalf.
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11. If any person shall think himself aggrieved by such list or table on the Parties allowed
to appeal against
ground that such list or table includes any tenement for which he is not rateable such list or table
to the Court of
under this Ordinance, or that it places his rateable tenement beyond its full and fair Summary Juris
diction.