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Land Rents 1879
GEMS FROM THE WISBECH SAINT MARY PARISH
RECORDS
(in the "Wisbech Advertiser" Wednesday 10 December
1879)
WISBECH NORTHSIDE DRAINAGE
At the General Annual Meeting of the
Commissioners appointed by and under certain Acts of Parliament
made and passed in the fifteenth and forty-ninth years of the
Reign of His Majesty King George the Third, "for draining and
preserving certain lands and grounds in the parishes of Wisbech
St Peter and Wisbech St Mary and in the hamlets of Wisbech
Murrow, and Wisbech Guyhirn, in the Isle of Ely, and County of
Cambridge", holden at the Rose and Crown Inn, in Wisbech, on
Tuesday the 13th day of May 1879,
IT WAS (amongst other things)
ORDERED that a rate or acre tax of Three Shillings an acre
should be, and the same was assessed, rated, taxed, and charged
upon all and every the Owners and Occupiers of all and singular
the Lands and Grounds in the said Acts mentioned and described,
except the Lands and Grounds lying in a certain place called the
"Nine Hundred" in Wisbech St Peter aforesaid, and that a rate or
Acre Tax of One Shilling an acre should be, and the same was
assessed, rated, taxed, and charged upon all and every the Owners
and Occupiers of all and singular the Lands and Grounds lying in
the "Nine Hundred", in Wisbech St Peter aforesaid, to and for the
purposes of the said Acts or one of them.
And it was also ORDERED that the
said rates, taxes, and charges so laid as above mentioned, should
be payable and paid to the Collector, or to me the Receiver
appointed under the said Acts, at my office in Wisbech aforesaid,
before or on the 3rd day of November then next; and that in case
the said rates, taxes, and charges, or any of them, should not be
paid to the said Collector or Receiver, before or on the 15th day
of December then next, then that a penalty of One Penny for every
Shilling of the said rates, taxes, and charges which should be so
in arrear and unpaid, should attach upon and be payable and paid
by the Owners or Occupiers so omitting or neglecting payment of
the same.
Dated 25th November 1879
Wm GODDARD JACKSON,
Clerk to the Commissioners.
This page was compiled by Brian Payne, a
local historian living in the village of Wisbech St Mary. Brian
is also Vice-Chairman of the Parochial Church Council and is
currently engaged in raising £20,000 for urgent repairs to
our beautiful fourteenth-century parish church [see appeal
page]. If you found these pages, which give an insight into the
past social life of the parish, interesting, you might wish to
make a donation to the Appeal. Any offerings would be most
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