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Minister to lodge said return with town clerk,
notice given on the next Sunday,
and access thereto for 15 days,
may appeal to sessions,
who may impannel a jury, and after verdict may alter or correct such valuations,
if confirmed, ed. 20s. on appellant,
valuation finally settled at session,
registered at vestries.
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XXXVII. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That after such valuation and affidavit as aforesaid, shall be made and returned to the ministers of the said respective parishes, they shall forthwith lodge the same in the hands of the town clerk of the said city of Waterford, and cause notice thereof to be given to the parishioners on the next Sunday, in the usual manner, at or after divine service in their respective parish churches, and that for fifteen days after such notice as aforesaid, every person shall and may have access to such valuation in the hands of the said town clerk; and if any person or persons shall think him or themselves aggrieved by such valuation, he and they may within the said fifteen days lodge their appeal and complaint to the justices for the said city of Waterford, in their sessions, who shall at their next sessions, consider of the merits of such several appeals, and at their discretion may, if they think fit, order the sheriffs at such sessions to impannel and return a jury for a trial of any matters of fact, and after a verdict, or otherwise, shall and may alter and correct such valuations in the points complained of, or confirm the same, and dismise such respective appeals, and shall award twenty shillings by way of penalty against every appellant, whose appeal they shall dismiss, to be levied and applied in such manner as herein after mentioned; and such valuations as shall be finally, settled and agreed upon by the said sessions in case of any appeal, and in case of no appeal, such valuations as shall be returned by the valuators to be appointed in pursuance of this act, after fifteen days from notice being given to the parishioners as aforesaid, shall be final and conclusive to the respective owners and proprietors of the respective houses, out-houses and premisses aforesaid, as to all purpuses of this act, and the respective valuations of the said several parishes after the same are established as aforesaid, shall be transcribed and registered at the expences of the respective parishes, in a book of registery to be kept in the vestries of the several parishes aforesaid, among the records thereof, in which book one or more blank leaves shall be left between the registery of the valuations of the several parishes for the purpose of making entries therein of the future valuation of new buildings as aforesaid.
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