Paid as the Consideration for Terms of Years and laid out in repairs in addition to the Rent reserved and
the Land tax if such Land Tax be paid by the Tenant (which the Petitioner submitted was the meaning of
the said Resolution tho' it be not so expressed) is excessive in that the several Persons coming within the
Description of the said first Resolution have laid out their Money in such way that the Principal is
extinct and they having no permanent Property in the Premises ought to be rated according to their
Property in the Estimate whereof regard should be paid to the Duration thereof And also for that
the said first Resolution by which eight Pounds per Cent, is imposed applies to Terms of between
thirty and forty years and by the second resolution a less sum vizt. seven pounds per Cent only is
added to the Rent for such Expenditures upon longer Terms of Years to wit from forty to seventy years
according to which Calculation the shorter the Term the several Inhabitants of Chelsea possess the
greater the Property they enjoy And also for that by the said second Resolution a sum of seven pounds
per Cent. is added to the reserved Rent in all cases where Houses have been sold at Twenty Five or
Thirty pounds per Cent. less than they have cost the Builder or under the measure and value
price at the time they were built by which Resolution the Committee appear to have rated such
Houses without having regard to the present real and true value thereof And also for that by the
said third Resolution the sum of four pounds ten shillings is added to the Assessed annual
value of Houses built by persons occupying and residing in the same that have never been
let since so built in addition to the Ground Rent and value of the Land which Resolution
the Petitioner submitted was unjust it being according to the direct words and meaning thereof
a Resolution of the said Committee to assess beyond the annual Value of the Premises. That
the Petitioner was the Occupier of a Messuage and Slaugther House in a certain Street called
Duke Street Chelsea in which he carried on his business of a Butcher and holds the same by
virtue of a Lease thereof and of another Dwelling House adjorning thereto bearing Date the
26th. day of July 1784 which Lease was granted to him by Lord Cudugan and the Right
Honourable Wilbore Ellis< no role > To Hold to the Petitioner for a Term of Thirty one Years and an half
from Midsummer Day 1784 at the Rent of six Pounds for the first half Year and seventeen
pounds per Annum for the residue of the said Term payable Quarterly. That the Petitioner
underlets one of the said Messages to Richard Blay< no role > at the Yearly Rent of seven pounds
seven shillings who duly pays the several Parochial Taxes in respect thereof and the Rent of the
Petitioner is thereby reduced to the annual sum of nine Pounds thirteen shillings. That antecedent
to the Time the said Lease was granted the Petitioner held the same premises upon a former Lease
thereof at the like Rent and the Term thereby demised being nearly expired and the Premises
being considerably out of repair the Petitioner obtained the above mentioned Lease at the Time of
Granting which the Petitioners Landlords being convinced that the Rent thereby reserved was the utmost
annual value thereof not only allowed the Petitioner the sum of two pounds ten shillings out of the
first half years Rent but also for gave him one full years Rent towards making the necessary
repairs of the said Premises. That no Premium or Gratuity whatsoever was given as the
Consideration for the said Lease and the Petitioner humbly inserted that the Rent thereby rescued