Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Report of the Poor Law Commissioners on Local Taxation
From the first appointment of the Poor Law Commission, the attention of the Commissioners has, from various causes, been unceasingly called to the subject of the Poor's Rate. The Poor Law Amendment Act imposed on the Commissioners the duty of regulating the accounts to be rendered by the persons concerned in the assessment, collection, and expenditure of that tax, and the appointment of paid Auditors under that Act has produced in all parts of the country an increased attention to its legal purposes and its applications. The questions that arise upon the powers of Overseers and Guardians in disposing of its proceeds, and upon the duties of the Auditor in allowing, or disallowing, or reducin charges, are very numerous and various in their character, a constantly afi'ord examples of the Operation of the law, and Bug' gest instances of defects in its provisions. Moreover, the Paro chial Assessments Act, passed in the year 1836, invested the Commissioners with new duties in respect of the valuation of pro perty for the purposes of the tax, and gave rise to much dis cassion, the whole Of which has proved a daily subject of the correspondence of the Commission.
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