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Section 109 Such allotments how to be let.C1

The allotment wardens shall from time to time let the allotment under their management in gardens not exceeding a quarter of an acre each, to such poor inhabitants of the parish, for one year, or from year to year, at such rents, payable at such times, and on such terms and conditions, not inconsistent with the provisions of this Act, as they shall think fit: Provided always, that the commissioners may frame such regulations, not inconsistent with the provisions of the Act, for the letting of such allotments as aforesaid, as they may think advisable, and such regulations shall be obligatory on the allotment wardens during five years from the date thereof, or during such shorter period as the commissioners shall direct: Provided also, that the gardens so to be let shall be let free of all tithe or tithe rent-charge, (if any,) rates, taxes, and assessments whatsoever, and shall before the first letting thereof, and one at least in every ten years after such first letting, be valued by a competent person to be appointed by the allotment wardens for that purpose, who shall estimate the full rent which the same would be worth to be let by the year for farming purposes, all tithes or tithe rent-charges, rates, taxes, and assessments, being borne by the landlord, and shall verify such valuation by solemn declaration under the statute; . . . F1 and the allotment wardens shall, for the purposes of all rates and taxes, be deemed the occupiers of such allotment, and shall pay all rates and taxes, tithes and tithe rent-charge, (if any,) in respect thereof: Provided always, that no building whatsoever shall, under any such letting as aforesaid or otherwise, on any pretence, be erected for or used as a dwelling on any such garden or on any part of any such allotment; and in case any such building shall be erected or used as aforesaid contrary to this provision, the allotment wardens shall forthwith pull down the same, and sell and dispose of the materials thereof, and the produce of such sale shall be applicable in like manner as the rents of such gardens.

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Words repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1891 (c. 67)

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S. 109 amended by Commons Act 1876 (c. 56), s. 26