County rate (1808)

Post date: Feb 27, 2012 8:32:52 PM

Notice in Kentish Gazette 25th March 1808:

Kent. AT the General Quarter Sessions of the Peace of our Lord the King, holden at the Old Castle of Canterbury, and for the County of Kent, on Tuesday the 12th day January, 1808. In pursuance of an act passed in the last session of Parliament, to make a fair and equal County Rate for the said county, a County Rate was granted for the whole of the said county, and it was ordered that the said Rate should be levied and raised in the sums respectively under written on the several parishes in East Kent, being two-pence in the pound, according to the rentals thereof under-mentioned, to be paid to Mr. William Bristow, the Treasurer for the Eastern Division of the said county, or before the next Quarter Sessions; and it was further ordered, that the said Rate should be levied and raised in the sums respectively underwritten on the several parishes in West Kent, being one penny in the pound, according to the rentals thereof undermentioned, to be paid in like manner to Robert Parker, esq. the Treasurer for the Western Division of the said county, or before the next Quarter Sessions. And notice is hereby given, that all persons or parishes, who may feel themselves aggrieved by the said Rate, may appeal against the Same at the next General Quarter Sessions of the Peace to be holden in East and West Kent respectively.

J. F. CLARIDGE,

Deputy Clerk of the Peace.

Aloesbridge.

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