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paid only in respect of the principal dwelling-house on any such lands, and 

 any house or building which may be let or used as a shop, or which may be 

 let out for rent, and not on any other house or building on such lands. 



XXIX. Land not exceeding one acre to be excluded in valuation of rental 

 of house* 



XXX. Annual rent of lands and houses to be fixed by Commissioners. 

 Commissioners to be appointed by the Governor. And be it enacted, That for 

 the purpose of ascertaining the annual rent or value of houses, mines, and 

 quarries, and the extent and valuation of lands subject to such rate within 

 each ward, and the names of the owners or occupiers of the same, it 

 shall be lawful for the Governor, from time to time, to appoint such number 

 of fit and proper persons as he shall see fit, as Commissioners of Assessment 

 for each ward, and to allow to such Commissioners such remuneration as he 

 shall see fit, which remuneration shall *be paid from the Colonial Treasury on 

 the warrant of the Governor, and shall be charged against and paid out of 

 the funds of the ward. 



XXXI. After first assessment a further assessment to be made every third 

 year. And be it enacted, That a further assessment and return shall be 

 made for and in respect of each ward on or before the 30th day of September 

 next after the passing of this Ordinance, and that on the 30th day of Sep- 

 tember in the year of our Lord 1856, and on the same day of every succeed- 

 ing third year, a new assessment and return shall be made by the Commis- 

 sioners of Assessment under this ordinance. 



XXXII. Powers to Commissioners to enter on and survey lands. 



XXXIII. Commissioner may require persons in possession of any house 

 or land to make a return. Penalty for refusing to make return. And 

 be it enacted, That it shall be lawful for any such Commissioner 

 within the ward in respect of which he shall be appointed such 

 Commissioner, to require any person who may be the owner or occupier 

 of any lands within such ward, or the owner or person in the receipt of the 

 rent or any part of the rent of any house within such ward, and also any 

 person renting or hiring any such house or any parb thereof, or the attorney 

 or agent of any such person, to make a declaration in writing of the extent 

 of such lands, and the quantity of the same in cultivation or pasture, or of 

 the annual or monthly rent at which such house may be let or occupied, 

 which declaration may be in the form following, that is to say 



Ward of District of County of 



18 I, B. B., of do hereby declare that the extent 



of the lands within the ward of of which I am the owner (or 



occupier) is acres, whereof acres are in cultivation 



as cane lands (or cocoa lands) or in pasture, and acres are uncultivated, 



or (as the case may be) that I am the owner (or occupier, or as the case may 

 be) of the house [insert the local situation or other descriptions of the house], 

 and that the rent payable by (or to) me in respect of the house (or of the 

 upper or lower part of the house) rented by me to (or from) C. D. is at the 

 rate of per annum. 



(Signed) A. B. 



And any such person who shall refuse or wilfully neglect to make such 

 declaration, or who shall knowingly make any false or untrue declaration, 

 shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding 20 sterling, to be recovered in a 

 summary manner upon conviction before any justice of the peace upon the 

 complaint of the warden. 



XXXIV. Assessment to be signed by Commissioner. 



XXXV. Persons rated to have access to returns. 



