Towns Improvement (Ireland) Act, 1854

Assessment Book to be made up, and Objections how to be entered and disposed of by the Commissioner.

Copy of Assessment Book to be given to Collector.

LXI. The Clerk of the Union shall, on the Requisition of the Commissioners, produce the Rate Book of the Union, and the said Commissioners shall annually cause to be made up a Book of Assessment, to be signed by the Chairman and Two others of the Commissioners, showing the net annual Value of the whole Premises in the Town under the Poor Law Valuation liable to be assessed under this Act, and according to which, the Assessments under this Act are intended to be levied; and such Book of Assessment shall be open to Inspection by all Ratepayers, in the Hands of the Clerk; and the Commissioners shall have Power to rectify any Mistake or Error, upon the ground of any Variance from the last Assessment for Poor Rates, or on the ground of any Change of Occupation of Premises since such last Assessment for Poor Rates; and in each Year a Copy of the said Book of Assessment, as finally adjusted by the Commissioners, signed by the Chairman and Two Commissioners, and countersigned by the Clerk, shall be delivered over to the Collector, as the Rule for levying and collecting the annual Assessment under this Act, and shall be deemed to be Evidence of each and every separate Assessment for the Purposes of this Act.