THE CENSUS OF 1851-SCOTLAND. POPULATION ENUMERATED IN DIVISIONS AND REGISTRATION COUNTIES, 1801, 1811, 1821, 1831, 1841, AND 1851; AND THE RATES OF INCREASE PER CENT. FOR THE HALF CENTURY, 1801-1851, THE ANNUAL RATE OF INCREASE FOR THE SAME PERIOD, AND THE RATE PER CENT. 1841-51. POPULATION ENUMERATED IN THE ISLANDS, 1821, 1831, 1841, AND 1851; WITH THE RATES OF INCREASE FROM 1821 To 1851. NOTE-Jersey, Guernsey, and the Isle of Man were not included in the general Censuses of the population in 1801 and 1811. HOUSES AND POPULATION OF ENGLAND AND WALES, OF SCOTLAND, AND OF THE ISLANDS IN THE BRITISH SEAS, ON MARCH 31ST, 1851. ABSTRACTS of the CENSUS of IRELAND taken in the YEARS 1841 and 1851. The date of the present Census being 68 days earlier than that of the preceding-5841 persons should be added to the gross population of 1841, that being the number of harvest labourers who it was ascertained had left Ireland previous to the 7th June in that year. Neither of these Abstracts include the Army serving in Ireland. Number of Persons in 1821, 6,801,827. in 1831, 7,767,401. in 1841, 8,175,124. in 1851, 6,515,794. (No previous Census.) Ditto Ditto FAMILIES. FEMALES. Decrease 165,785 Decrease 832,849 Decrease 816,481 THE INHABITED HOUSE DUTIES ACT, 14 & 15 VICT. c. 36. ON DWELLING-HOUSES Received the Royal Assent, 24th of July, 1851. WHEREAS under and by virtue of an Act of the forty-eighth year of King George III. c. 55, certain duties are now payable in England, Wales, and Berwick-uponTweed and in Scotland respectively upon dwelling houses, and are assessed and levied according to the number of windows or lights therein as set forth in the Schedule marked (A) to the said Act annexed; and it is expedient that in lieu thereof the duties on inha bited dwelling-houses set forth in the Schedule to this Act annexed should be assessed and levied according to the annual value of such dwelling-houses: Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows: : 1. From and after the fifth day able according to the annual value II. The said duties shall be de- of re ing, raising, levying, collecting, receiving, accounting for and securing the said duties hereby granted, and otherwise in relation thereto, so far as the same are or shall be applicable, and are not repealed or superseded by and are consistent with the express provisions of this Act, as fully and effectually to all intents and purposes, as if the same powers, provisions, rules, regulations, directions and exemptions, fines, forfeitures, pains and penalties, were particularly repeated and enacted in this Act with reference to the said duties hereby granted: excepting always out of this enactment any provisions for or in relation to compositions for the said duties set forth in the said Schedule marked (B), the exemption in Case II. of exemptions contained in the same schedule, and all the provisions of an Act of the session holden in the third and fourth years of King William IV. c. 39, and of an Act of the session holden in the third and fourth years of Her Majesty, c. 17. III. Provided always, That no market garden or nursery ground occupied by a market gardener or nurseryman bona fide for the sale of the produce thereof, in the way of his trade or business, shall be included in the valuation of any dwelling-house and premises in charging the duties made payable by this Act. IV. The duties granted by the said Act of the forty-eighth year of King George III., and now payable in England, Wales, and Berwick-upon-Tweed and in Scotland respectively, upon dwelling houses, according to the number of windows or lights therein as set forth in the Schedule marked (A), to the said Act annexed, shall, at and upon the respective periods appointed for the commencement of the duties granted by this Act, severally cease and determine; save and except as to any of the said duties hereby repealed which, having been assessed or charged, shall not have been collected, levied, recovered and accounted for, and also as to all arrears of any of the said duties, and all penalties and forfeitures incurred at or before such respective periods, all which said duties and arrears of duties and penalties and forfeitures, shall respectively be collected, levied, recovered, paid and accounted for as if this Act had not been passed. V. And whereas a certain rate of duty is now payable in respect of armorial bearings or ensigns used or worn by persons chargeable to the duties on houses, windows or lights made payable by the said Act of the forty-eighth year of King George III. All persons who shall be chargeable to duty under this Act shall in respect of armorial bearings or ensigns used or worn by them be subject to the same rate of duty as they would have been liable to if they had been chargeable to the said duties made payable by the said Act. VI. And whereas assessors of the duties of assessed taxes have in many parishes and places been already appointed for the present year: the persons so appointed such assessors shall, without any further or other appointment or authority, become and be assessors of the duties granted by this Act for the said year in and for the same parishes and places respectively. The SCHEDULE referred to; Containing the duties by this Act |