Valuation of Lands (Ireland) Act 1831
| Year | 1831 |
(1 & 2 Will. 4) C A P. LI.
[20th October 1831]
'WHEREAS an Act was passed in the Seventh Year of the Reign of His late Majesty KingGeorge the Fourth, intituled Ireland,for the Purpose of the more equally levying of the Rates and Charges upon such Baronies, Parishes, and Divisions respectively , whereby, after reciting that a general Survey of Ireland was then in progress, Provision was made for an uniform Valuation, consequent upon such Survey, of the several Baronies and other Divisions of Land within the several Counties of Ireland liable to be separately assessed to raise and pay any Proportion of County Cess Charges and Grand Jury Rates: And whereas it is not expedient or necessary for the Purposes of the said recited Act to include, in the Valuation to be made thereunder, Houses of a perishable Nature and inconsiderable Value, nor such Houses, Buildings, and Tenements as by Law or Usage may be or ought to be exempted from Assessment for County or Parochial Rates; and it is expedient to amend the said Act in certain other Particulars:' Be it therefore enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, That no House for which a greater Sum or Rent by the Year than Three Pounds could not be obtained, or which may not be of a greater annual Value than Three Pounds, shall be included in the Valuation to be made under Authority of the said recited Act of the Seventh Year of the Reign of His late Majesty KingGeorge the Fourth, any thing in the said Act contained to the contrary notwithstanding.
II Outbuildings to be valued with the House to which they belong.
II. And be it further enacted, That, in making the Valuation by the said recited Act directed and authorized, all Outbuildings, Barns, Stables, Warehouses, Yards, and Offices belonging or contiguous to any House, and occupied therewith by one and the same Person or by the same Persons, or...
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