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the rate be made payable to the Board of Works ; and 

 that the required sum be then advanced by it. 



We recommend that powers be given to enforce the 

 rate by entry and distress. And as the benefit of the im- 

 provement for which the rate is levied will be enjoyed by 

 all existing lessees who are in possession, and by all above 

 them as they come into possession, and as the immediate 

 landlord of a tenant who holds only from year to year may 

 be considered as if in possession, there being no lease 

 against him, and as we think it desirable that the rate 

 should be borne by the head landlord after the determina- 

 tion of existing leases, we recommend that it shall be pay- 

 able by the occupying tenant ; but that if he hold from 

 year to year, he shall be authorized to deduct the amount 

 from his immediate landlord, and that all future lessees 

 shall also be authorized so to do. We also recommend, 

 that it shall be redeemable by the proprietor within a cer- 

 tain time, on his paying off the sum in respect of which 

 it has been laid on ; that if he redeem it, he shall be autho- 

 rized to have it transferred to any person from whom he 

 may borrow money for the redemption of it, or to a trus- 

 tee for himself ; that if he omit to redeem, the Board of 

 Works shall be authorized to sell it ; that it shall thence- 

 forth be transferable, as an annuity in the public funds, in 

 a book to be kept at the office of the Board of Works for 

 the purpose, and be redeemable only by the proprietor on 

 his paying such a price for it as would, at the time he re- 

 deems, purchase a perpetual Government annuity of equal 

 amount. 



