# Taxation: Members of Parliament Act 1700, Section LXXXIV: LXXXIV. Reasons for this Enactment.


Justices of New Romney to act as Commissioners for Orwelstone and Bromhill; How far.; Commissioners of Lydd to assess Orwelstone and Bromhill.
And forasmuch as the Borough of Orwelston and the Parish of Bromhill are Members of the Towne and Port of New Romney one of the Cinque Ports in the County of Kent and within the Libertie and Jurisdiction thereof and Division of Justices of the same Towne and Port notwithstanding which they have lately paid Land Taxes with the Towne of Lydd a Member also of the said Port of New Romney by reason that the Proportions of the said Orwelston and Bromhill in Kent were included in the Proportion of Lydd And whereas by the severall Acts of Parliament for granting and continueing to His-Majestie severall Rates and Duties upon Marriages Births and Burialls and also for granting and continueing to His Majestie severall Rates and Duties upon Houses the Justices of the Peace for every particular Libertie and Jurisdiction are required to put the said severall Acts in Execution within their respective Liberties Be it therefore enacted by the Authority aforesaid for preventing all future Difficulties and Disputes in this Behalfe and for the better assessing levying and collecting the said Duties and Sum[m]s of Money granted by the said Acts That the Justices of the Peace of the said Towne and Port of New Romney shall from henceforth be and act as Commissioners and put all the said Acts and every Clause and Thing therein conteined in full Execution within the said Borough of Orwelstone & within the said Parish of Bromhill Any Clause Article or Provisoe in the said severall Acts of Parliament or any of them to the contrary notwithstanding And that the Comissioners for the Towne of Lydd shall and may continue to assesse the said Orwelstone and Bromhill in Kent to all Land Taxes onely for so long Time as the Proportion on Orwelstone and Bromhill aforesaid shall be included in the Proportion of the said Towne of Lydd and no longer nor otherwise in any Case whatsoever

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/aep/Will3/12-13/10/section/LXXXIV (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/taxation-members-of-parliament-act-1700/section-LXXXIV
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