...in order to raise money for carrying the several purposes of this Act into execution, be it further enacted, that a rate shall be made, assessed, and...assessed to the relief of the poor ; provided that the same rate shall also extend to such woods, mines, and quarries of stone, or other hereditaments, as...

...passing of the Act 5 & 6 Will. IV. c. 50, and also at the time of the making of the said rate, was not liable to be rated and assessed to the relief of the poor. From the year 1809 down to and including the year in which stat. 5 & 6 Will. IV. c. 50, was passed,...

...the Highway Act, (5 & 6 Will. IV. c. 50). By sect. 27 of that Act a highway rate is to be levied on " all property now liable to be rated and assessed to the relief of the poor." It has been decided by this Court, in Reg. v. Paynter (i), that Putney Bridge is property liable to...

...in support of the rate : Stat. 5 & 6 Will. IV. c. 50, s. 27, enacts that the highway rate shall be upon all property " now liable to be rated and assessed...to the relief of the poor " * * " provided that the same rate shall also extend to such woods, mines, and quarries of stone, or other hereditaments as...

...to the county and borough rates.2 As regards highway rates, by 5 & 6 Will. 4, c. 50, section 27, ' all property now liable to be rated and assessed to the relief of the poor ' was made liable to highway rate; and the Act further provided that ' the same rate shall also extend...