10 II 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 WINDOWS, OR LIGHTS. NUMBER OF WINDOWS, Duties to be chargec Duties to be charged According to which the dwelling-houfe fhall be for windows in every for windows in every O 8 I JO 2 10 O 3 5 4 4 15 5 10 0 16 I 15 4 13 0990 6600600 moo moo moo Moo Moo Moo mão moo mog ༠ 6 5 7 O 6 18 7 15 7 13 8 10 8 9 5 3 ΙΟ O 9 18 10 15 11 10 10 13 II 3 13 0 12 18 WINDOWS OR SKYLIGHTS. All fkylights, and all windows, however constructed, in ftair-cafes, garrets, cellars, paffages, and all other parts of dwelling-houies, to what ufe foever applied, and whether, in the exterior or interior parts, to be charged. Where any charge in the occupation fhall take place after the affeffment, then the duties on the occupier fhall be levied upon and paid by the occupier, landlord, or owner, for the time being, or on both or all, according to their times of poffeffion, without any new affeffment, notwithstanding fuch change in the occupation; but where a tenant fhall quit, on the termination of the leafe or demife, after an affeffment made, and fhall have given notice thereof to the affeffor, the duty fhall be difcharged by the commiffioners for the remainder of that year, if it fhall appear to the commiffioners, at the end of fuch year, that fuch houfe fhall have continued wholly unoccupied for the remainder of fuch year. feet fix inches in height, fhall be charged as two windows, except fuch as fhall have been made of greater dimensions, prior to the 5th of April, 1785; except alfo the windows in fhops, workshops, and warehoufes, and except the windows in the public room of any houfe licensed to fell liquors by retail, ufed for the entertainment of guests; and the windows in darjes, farm-houfes, excepted from the duties in chedule (R) or in any dwelling-house not chargeable to the duties mentioned in the faid schedule. Where any dwelling-house shall be divided into different tenements, being dif tinct properties, every fuch tenement shall be fubject to the fame duties, as if the fame were an entire house, to be paid by the occupiers; but every_fuch tenement in England, Wales, or Berwick-uponTweed, which fhall not contain more than feven windows, fhall be charged at the rate of three fhillings for every window, and in Scotland two fhillings and fixpence for every window. houfes. HOUSES. For every fuch houfe, which, with the houfehold and other offices, yards, and gardens, therewith occupied, fhall be worth the rent following, there fhall be charged the yearly fums following, viz. Where any houfe is let in different apartments, tenements, lodgings, or landings, The duties payable on all inhabited dwellingand shall be inhabited by two or more perfons or families, the fame fhall be charged as if inhabited by one family only; and the landlord or owner fhall be deemed the occupier, and, fhall be charged with the duties; but where the landlord fhall not refide within the limits of the collector, or the fame fhall remain unpaid by fuch landlord for twenty days after due, the duties charged may be levied on the occupier, and fuch payment shall be allowed out of the next, on account of rent. In the pound. 51. and under 2ol. rent, by the year lo 1 4 20l. and under 40l. rent, by the year 30l. rent by the year, and upwards o 2 6 SERVANTS. 020 The duties payable annually for every malefervant, employed in the capacities men tioned herein. Every houfe, whereof the keeping is left to any fervant, shall be subject to the like duties, as if inhabited by the owner or a tenant, and if fuch fervant fhall not pay Number of Servants. rates to the church and poor, the said duties fhall be paid by the owners or tenants. 2 3 When a partition or divifion between For. I fuch fervant two or more windows, fixed in one frame, is of the breadth of twelve inches, the window on each fide shall be charged as a diftin&t window. Every window extending fo far as to give light into more rooms, landings, or Itories than one, fhall be charged as fo many feparate windows. Every window, including the frame, partition, and divifions thereof, which by due admeafurement of the whole space on the aparture of the wall of the building, on the outside of fuch window, fhall exceed in height twelve feet, or in breadth four feet nine inches, not being less than three 9 IO II and upwards For every fuch fervant employed by any male perfons, never having been married,over and above the before duties, the further fum of 1 10 0 1. The faid duties to be paid by the matter 3 R 2 or or mistress, and to be payable for every male fervant in any of the following capa. cities: maitre d'hotel, houfe-fteward, master of the horse, groom of the chamber, valet de chambre, butler, under butler, clerk of the kitchen, confectioner, cook, houfe porter, footman, running footman, coachman, groom, poftillion, ftable boy, or helper in the stables of the master or. miftrefs, gardener, park keeper, gamekeeper, huntfinan, whipper-in, or by whatever name or names male-fervants, really acting in any of the faid capacities fhall be called, or whether fuch male-fervants fhall have been retained or employed an one or more of the faid capacities, or in any other bufinefs jointly, and to any fuch fervant let to hire with any carriage or horfes, for one year or longer. 2. The duties fhall extend to all fervants before-mentioned, employed in taverns, coffee-houfes, inns, ale houfes, and in eating or victualling houses, and in hotels or lodging houfes, being eating and victualling houfes, although not licensed, except oftlers and helpers in ftables, and drivers employed to drive carriages let out to hire, in fuch manner that the ftamp-office duty fhall have been paid, and except waiters. 3. The said duties on gardeners fhall extend to every gardener who fhall have contracted for the keeping of any garden, and to every person who fhall have been hired to work in any garden wherein the constant Jabour of one perfon fhall be necessary, or where one perfon fhall have been conftantly employed, to be paid by the perfon for whofe ufe, and in whofe garden, fuch perfon shall have been employed. 4. The faid duties fhall extend to all apprentices employed in any of the capacities aforefaid, except fuch as fhall have been impofed upon any matter, under the pow ers given to magiftrates, and parish officers by acts of parliament, fo as the number shall not exceed two, not wearing livery, nor being employed as livery fervants. 5. The faid duties on game-keepers fhall extend to every perfon employed to kill or preferve game for the ufe of any other, whether lawfully appointed or not, to be paid by the perfon employing fuch perfons; except game-keepers, being the fervants of other qualified perfons, charged to the duties as fervants. any manufacture or trade, where the mafter fhall be chargeable with duty for any carriage (other than a taxed cart) or for two hories for riding or drawing carriages. 7. The faid duties thall extend to every perfon employed as a groom, ftable-boy, or helper in the ftables of the matter, to take care of any horfe the property of fuch master, kept for the purpose of racing or running, or in training for the faid purpoles. Clafs 2. The duties payable annually for male fervants employed in the feveral capacities herein-mentioned. For every gardener, or perfon employed to work in any garden, under any perfor chargeable to the duties mentioned in Clafs 1, and for every gardener employed in any garden wherein the constant labour of one perfon fhall not be neceffary, 5s. To be paid by fuch perfon in whofe garden such person shall be employed. EXEMPTIONS. Any perfon employed by the day or week, to work as a day-labourer, at the ufual rate of wages for day-labourers in agriculture in any garden belonging to a exempted as fuch from the duties in clafs dwelling-house, being a farm-house, and 2, or in any garden belonging to a dwelling-houfe not chargeable to the duties mentioned in the faid fchedule, fuch garden not requiring the conftant labour of one labourer. Clafs 3. The duties payable annually for every male-fervant, employed in the capa cities herein-mentioned. For every male perfon employed by any merchant or trader as a traveller or rider where one, and no more, fhall be employed 21. 2s. And where more than one fuch traveller or rider fhall be fo employed, for each 31. 38. For every male perfon employed by any perfon in trade, or execifing any profeffion whatever, as a clerk or book-keeper, or office-keeper, except apprentices where no premium, or a premium lefs than twenty pounds has been paid, the duties following, viz. Where one fuch clerk, book keeper, br office-keeper, and no more fhall be fo employed, 11. 1s. And where more than one fhall be fo employed, for each 21. 28. For every male perfon employed by any perfon in trade as a fhopman, warehouseman, or porter (except apprentices as aforefaid) for the purpose of expofing to 2 fale fale or felling goods, whether by wholefale or retail, Il. IS. For every male fervant employed as a waiter (except occafional waiters, above the ordinary number ufually kept) in any taverns, coffee-houfts, inns, ale-houses, or other licensed houses,or in eating or vicualling-houses, or in hotels, or lodging-houles, being eating or victualling-houses, 21. For every male fervant retained by any ftable-keeper to take care of any horfe of any other perfon, kept for the purpose of racing or running, or any horfe in training for any of the faid purpofes, whereby fuch table-keeper fhall gain a livelihood or profit, il. is. For every male fervant bonâ fide retained for the purposes of husbandry, manufacture, or trade, by which the mafter fhall gain a livelihood or profit, and at any time employed in any domeftic employment in any of the capacities in fchedule (C, No. 1) and not chargeable to the duties in the faid fchedule, 5s. For every male-fervant bonâ fide retained for the purposes of husbandry, or any manufacture or trade by which the master fhall gain a livelihood or profit, and at any time employed in the capacity of a groom, table-boy, or helper in the ftables, where the master shall be chargeable for one horse, and no more, to the duty on horses kept for riding, or drawing a taxed cart, or the dury on fuch taxed cart, and not on any other carriage, 5s. The faid duties to be paid by the em ployer. Clafs 4. The duties payable on fervants let to hire. For every coachman, groom, poftillion, or helper, kept for the purpose of being let to hire, for any period of time less than one year (and in fuch manner that the ftamp office duty payable on horses let to hire hall not be payable) by persons licenfed to let poft horfes, or by any coachmaker or maker of fuch carriages, or other perfon, zl. The faid duty to be paid by the perfons letting the fame to hire; but if the perfons hiring the fame shall not make a return thereof, then the progreffive duty payable in Clafs 1, fhall be chargeable. STATE OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS, An ACCOUNT prefented to the HOUSE of COMMONS, fhewing how the MONIES, given for the SERVICE of the YEAR 1803, have been difpofed of, distinguished under their Several HEADS, fo far as relates to GREAT BRITAIN. For ordnance for fea fervice for the 40,000 men For additional General and Staff officers 31,000 70,000 For the office of ordnance for land fervice 637,947 282,065 35-751 1,747,570 38,345 143,891 For appointing effective Captains to the troops and companies lately held by the Colonels, Firft Lieutenant-Colonels, and First Majors For the embodied Militia For contingencies for the Militia For cloathing the militia For the increafed rates of ubfiftence to be paid to innkeepers and others, on quartering the Militia For the Supplementary Militia. For the further charge of volun. teer corps of cavalry and infantry For the further charge of the barrack department in Great Britain For the further charge of the barrack department in Ireland Towards the extraordinary fervices of the army in Great Britain Towards the extraordinary fervices of ditto in Ireland 145,000 416,000 300,000 58,333 54,907 1,400,000 127,512 200,645 Upon account of the reduced offi For difcharging exchequer bills 2,781,532 cers 358,152 For ditto 27,474 For half-pay and allowances to the reduced officers of British FOR THE On account of feveral officers late in the fervice of the States General For penfions paid to widows of CIVIL ESTABLISHMENTS UNDER-MENTIONED, VIZ. officers of the land forces 8,900 7,665 New Brunswick 4,650 Inland of St. John 2,214 For foreign corps 159,672 Cape Breton 1,840 For medicines, bedding, and hof Newfoundland 1,515 pital contingencies 4,100 of the army For the extraordinary expences Bermudas 580 For full pay to fupernumerary Dominica 600 (Nothing paid) New South Wales 9,124 SERVICES. |