A. D. 1737. Anno decimo Georgii II. C. 22. 271 lions to be held for the faid City of London, who are hereby impowered and required to fummon and examine Witnefles upon Oath, and finally to hear and determine the fame ; and in cafe of Conviction to iffue a Warrant or Warrants for levying and compelling by fuch Means as aforefaid the Payment of the faid Penalties and Forfeitures. XV. And it is hereby further enacted by the Authority aforefaid, That all the Penalties to be levied by Vtn^lxiti ho-j» virtue of this Act fhall be paid and applied in Mariner following ; that is to fay, one Moiety thereof to t0 be a PP lied ' the Perfon or Perfons who (hall inform and profecute for the fame, and the other Moiety to the Alder- man of the Ward where fuch Offence (hall be committed, to be by him paid and applied for and towards defraying the Charges and Expences of the Nightly Watch and Bedels and other Charges incident there- to within fuch Ward. XVI. Provided always, and be it further enacted, That in cafe there fhall be any Deficiency in any Deficiency in pne Year's Rate or Affeflment fo to be made as aforefaid in any of the Wards within the faid City or ? a f CS h ^'?. c Liberties thereof, either by Houfes, Shops, Warehoufes, Buildings or other Tenements being empty, e upp e "* or by the Infolvency or Removal of any of the Inhabitants, Tenants, Occupiers, or otherwife, for which or upon whom fuch Rates and Affeffments are respectively charged or chargeable by this Act, fo that the Wages and Allowances to Watchmen and Bedels and other incident Charges cannot be fully fatisfied, paid and difcharged in that Year ; then and in fuch Cafe the Deficiency fo happening in the faid Ward ihall be paid out of the next fucceeding Year's Rate and Afleffinent ; and if there fhall happen to be any furplus Money collected by fuch Rates and AfTeffments as aforefaid in any of the faid Wards in any one Year, fuch Surplus (hall be carried on to the Credit of the Account of the next Year's Rate and Affeffment, and fhall be applied for fuch Ufes, and in fuch Manner, as the Rates and AfTeffments col- lected in fuch Ward are by this Act directed to be laid out and applied, and to no other Ufe or Pur- pofe whatsoever. ' XVII. And whereas many Houfes in feveral of the Wards of the faid City are by the feveral Land- ' lords or Owners thereof let out in Lodgings or Tenements to divers Tenants, whereby it will be dif- ' ficult to rate and aflefs fuch Houfes, or to recover fuch Rates and AfTefTments when made ; ' ■For Remedy whereof be it enacted by the Authority aforefaid, That from and after the twenty-fifth Houfes !e« out Day of December, which fliall be in the Year of our Lord one thoufand feven hundred and thirty-feven, j n Lo t ds i" E V it (hall and may be lawful to and for the Alderman of each respective Ward, by and with the Con- fefled.° ■fent of his Deputy and Common Council Men, or the major Part of them, from time to time and at all Times when they are directed by the Lord Mayor, Aldermen and Commons of the faid City, in Common Council affembled, to make any Rate and Affeffment on the Inhabitants of their refpedtive Wards, to rate and afTefs the Owner or Owners of all fuch Houfes or Tenements as fhall be let to or occupied by three or more Tenants ; which Rate and Afleffment fhall be paid by one or more of the Occupiers of any Part or Parts of fuch Houfes ; and in cafe any Occupier or Occupiers of any Part of fuch Houfes or Tenements (hall refufe to pay the fame, then the faid Rate and Afleffment (hall be levied by Diftrefs and Sale of the Goods of him, her or them fo rehiring to pay the fame ; which Diftrefs and Sale (hall be made in like Manner as Diltreffes and Sales of the Goods of other Parties neglecting; or rehiring to pay the Rates .and Affeffments impofed and directed to be impofed by virtue of this Act are directed to be made ; and fuch Occupier and Occupiers of fuch Tenements are hereby required and authorized to pay fuch Sum and Sums of Money as fhall be.fo.rated, impofed or affeffed on the Owner or Owners thereof in purfuance of this Act, and to deduct me -fame out of the Rent thereof ; and the Landlord or Owner or Owners thereof are hereby required to allow fuch Deductions and Payments upon Receipt of the Refidue of their Rents ; and every Tenant paying fuch Affeffment or Affeffments fhall be acquitted and difcharged for fo much Money as the faid Affeffment or Affeffments fhall amount ■unto, as if the fame had been actually paid to fuch Perfon or Perfons to whom his, her or their Rent fhould have been due or payable. XVIII. Provided always, and it is hereby enacted and declared, That no Perfon or Perfons, who fliall Perfons rated be rated and affeffed and pay to any Rate and Afleffment to be made in purfuance of this Act, (hall be not liable to liable to any Watch or Ward by virtue of the Statute commonly called The Statute of Winchejier, made any " in the thirteenth Year of King Edward the Firft, or any other fubfequent Statutes relating thereto, but fhall be and are hereby difcharged of and from the fame. XIX. And whereas by an Act of Parliament made and paffed in the twenty-fecond and twenty- Aft 22 k 1.3 third Years of the Reign of his late Majefty King Charles the Second, intituled, An Alt for the better paving and cleanjtng the Streets and Sewers in and about the City of London, it is enacted (amongft other Things) That from thenceforth the fole Power and Authority of ordering, deilgn- ing and regulating of the pitching and paving all the Streets, Lanes and Paffages whatfoever within the faid City and Liberties, with the Order and Manner thereof, fhould be and remain in the Mayor, Commonalty and Citizens of the faid City, to be executed by fuch Perfons as by the faid Mayor, Al- deimen and Commons, in Common-council affembled, fhould be appointed, or by any Seven or more of them, being all Members of the faid Court ; and it is alfo thereby further enacted, That for the better enabling the faid Mayor, Commonalty and Citizens, to perform the Works by the faid Statute appointed to be done, and for defraying the Charge thereof, it (hould be lawful for the faid Perfons fo to be authorized, or any Seven of them, as often as Need (hould be, to impofe any reafonable Tax or Affeffment, .as well upon the Tenants and Occupiers, as alfo upon the Owners of Houfes, Shops or other Tenements or Hereditaments, whereof there fhould be no _prefent Occupier, " *' to Car. 2, c. 17.
