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The Statement seems at this Period to stand
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thus.
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Poors Rate at 4s. in the pound4s-..d
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Lamp Watch and Scavenger2-..
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Improving Tax under Commission..-6
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£..-6-6
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So that exclusive of the Land Tax the Parochial
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Taxes which the Tenants now pay amount to 6s/6d in
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the Pounds on the Rack Rents.
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There are great complaints among the Tenants of the
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deadness of the local Trade and other Circumstands of
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disadvantage which with the Present unusual burthens
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of temporary Taxes. al together seem to make it
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difficult to determine what alteration can take place in
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the Rental so as to satisfy the just expectation of
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the
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Hospital
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without distressing the Tenantry
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It is not easy to ascertain the respective advantages
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which the Premises have derived from these
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Improvements which have been the foundation of this
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Investigation I would therefore respectfully suggest
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to the Governors that if they should determine upon
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raising the rents that the most eligible mode would
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be to oblige the Tenants in future to pay on
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additional Sum equal to the half of the Present
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Land Tax which therefore will be and Increase
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to the Annual Produce of £65.
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On, if the Governors should be of Opinion that a
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greater rise should take Place the Tenants might have
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notice to pay the whole of the Land Tax which their
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would be an increase of £130.
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Saml. Robinson
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June 1799.
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Tenants at will of
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the above estate to
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pay land tax.
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We have ordered that the several Tenants
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at Will of the above Estate be charged with the
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whole of the Land tax payable for their respective
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Houses in addition to their rent
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Plan of Premises
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We have ordered that the Surveyor do make
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a Plan of the Premises in
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