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Page: 282↓

Court of Session Inner House Second Division.

Friday, December 19. 1884.

[ Lord Kinnear, Ordinary.

22 SLR 282

Commissioners of Supply of Fifeshire

v.

Magistrates of Dunfermline and Others.

Subject_1Burgh
Subject_2Rating
Subject_3Assessment
Subject_4Lunatics (Scotland) Act 1857 (20 and 21 Vict. c. 71) — Militia (Scotland) Act 1854 (17 and 18 Vict. c. 106) — Contagious Diseases Animals Act 1878 (41 and 42 Vict. c. 74) — Prisons Act 1877 (40 and 41 Vict. c. 53).
Facts:

A district, 1000 acres in extent and consisting of villages and farms, lay within the royalty of a burgh, as extended by a local Act, but was beyond the Parliamentary boundary as defined by the Reform Act 1832. Held that the commissioners of supply for the county in which the burgh was situated were not entitled to impose assessments on the lands and heritages within this district for the purposes of the Lunatics (Scotland) Act 1857, the Militia (Scotland) Act 1854, or the Contagious Diseases (Animals) Act 1878.

Counsel:

Counsel For Pursuers— J. P. B. Robertson— Gillespie. Agent— William Black, S.S.C.

Counsel for Defenders— Trayner— Shaw. Agents— Morton, Neilson, & Smart, W.S.

 1884

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