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BRITISH LEGISLATION. 
ACTS PASSED 7n the FSRST YEAR of the REIGN of GEORGE THE FOURTH, ov in : 
the SECOND SESSION of the SEVENTH PARLIAMENT of the UNITED KINGDOM. | 
AP. CX. For repealing the Duties 
imposed on Husbandry Horses, and 
to make perpetual several Acts for ve- 
ducing the Duties on certain Hor-es and 
Mules. 
CAP. CXI. Yo. empower the Cum- 
missioners in Great Britain for the Ex- 
ecution of several Acts for authorizing 
the Issue of Exchequer Bills for carry- 
ing on of Public Works and Fisheries, 
and Employment of the Poor, to extend 
the Time for the Payment of certain 
Advances under the said Acts. 
CAP. CXII. To grant, for the Term 
of Five Years, additional Stamp Du- 
ties on certain Proceedings in the Courts 
cf Law, and to repeal certain other 
Stamp Duties in Ireland. 
CAP CXIUL—To continue several 
Acts for the Relief of Persons com- 
pounding for Assessed Taxes from an 
annual Assessment, for a further Term; 
and to amend the Acts relating to As- 
sessments and Compositions of Assessed 
Taxes. 
I. Assessments for the Year ending Sth 
April, 1822, to remain to the same Amount 
if compounded for, in respect of Windows 
and Houses for Six Years, and in respect 
of the other Assessed Taxes for Five Years. 
IV. No Composition shall be entered 
into or renewed under this Act, for any 
Duty or Duties of Assessed Taxes, other 
than the Duties on Dwelling Houses men- 
tioned in the Schedules of an Act passed in 
the Forty-eighth Year of the Reign of His 
late Majesty, marked (A. and B.;) and 
the other Duties of Assessed Taxes on the 
following Articles, forming the Establish- 
ments of the Persons or Person so com- 
pounding, and retained, employed, kept, 
and used for their, his, or her own Use, 
and not for or to the Use, Benefit, or Pro- 
fit of any other Person or Persons, or to 
be lent or let to hire: viz. the Duties on 
Servants mentioned in the Schedule of the 
said Act, and in the Schedule of another 
Act, passed in the Fifty-secoud Year of the 
Reign of His said late Majesty, marked 
(C.) No.1 and No. 2; on Carriages men- 
tioned in the Schedules of. the said Acts 
respectively, marked (D.) No. 1, No. 2, 
and No. 4; on Horses, Mares, and Geld- 
ings, mentioned in the Schedules of the 
said Acts respectively, marked (E.) No. 4 
and No. 3, and (F.) No. 1, whether such 
Horses, Mares, or Geldings are subject 
to the Rates mentioned in the said Acts, 
or to anyreduced Duty by any subsequent 
Act or Acts; on Dogs mentioned in the 
Schedule of the said Acts, marked (G.;) 
cn Persons in respect of using or Wearing 
Hair Powder, mentioned in the Schedule 
of the said Act, passed in the Forty-eighth 
Year of His late Majesty King George the 
Third, marked (1;) and on Persons in res- 
pect of using or wearing Armorial Bearings 
or Ensigns, mentioned in the Schedule of 
the said last mentioned Act, marked (K. ;) 
and every such Composition which shall 
comprise apy other Duty or Duties than 
the Duties enumerated, shall be yoid and 
of no Effect in respect of such other Duties, 
and for which the Party shall be subject to 
Assessment as if no such Composition had 
been entered into, accordiug to the Laws 
in force relating to such Assessments. 
Y. Persons assessed to the Duties on 
Houses for the Year ending the 5th April, 
1822, may compound on the Amount as- 
sessed in that Year, paying an additional 
Duty of 51. per Cent. 
Vi. Exception as to Taxes in respect of 
Articles kept for Trade, &e. 
VII. Compositions on Dwelling Houses 
to be renewed on the same Terms. 
VIII. Compounders on the other Assess- 
ed Taxes may renew the same on the 
Amount charged thereby, together with a 
further Duty of 51. per Cent. 
IX. Persons desirous of continuing their 
former Compositions to deliver their Con- 
tract or Copy with Notice before the Sth. 
April, 1822. 
X. Persons having Compounded and re- 
duced their Establishments may Compound 
de novo, on the Assessment of 1822, on 
Notice within Three Months, and a Re- 
turn. 
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XI. Persons who, since Compounding. 
have succeeded to Estates and kept larger 
Establishments, excepted from the Benefit 
of Renewal, but may contract de novo on 
the next Year’s Assessment. Persons 
haying Compounded on a less Amount of 
Duty than ought to have been included, 
excepted from the Benefit of Renewal, but 
may contract de novo on the next Year’s 
Assessment. 
XVII. Compounders entitled to the like 
Privileges of opening Windows, increas- 
ing Establishment, &c. as under former 
Acts. 
XVHI. Compositions on Houses and on 
the other Assessed Taxes although in the 
same Contract, to be deemed distinct Com- 
positions, Compositions on the other As- 
sessed Taxes to include the whole Assess- 
ed. Persons Assessed in Two or more 
Places to deliver Certificates of the 
Amount ; 
