The Laws Relating to the Land Tax Author:Samuel Miller Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: 3. The enactments relating to particular subjects of assessment, and to particular places ; and 4. The persons and subjects exempted from the tax. Sect... more »ion 2. As to the Powers, Duties and Qualifications of the Commissioners and other Officers. The commissioners appointed for putting the act into execution were those appointed by the Land Tax Act, passed in the year 1797; and they are directed to meet together at the usual places of meeting, and ascertain and set down in writing the several proportions which ought to be charged upon every hundred, lathe, wapentahe, rape, ward, or other division respectively within England, Wales, and Berwick-upon-Tweed, towards raising the sum charged upon the county, city or places for which they were appointed commissioners, subdividing themselves if necessary, so that three or more should be appointed for the service of each hundred, lathe, wapentake, rape, ward, or other division (s. 7). The commissioners within the several hundreds,« less