Proportion of Rates to be paid by Persons removing.
XXIII. Provided also, That in all Cases where any Person shall remove from or quit any House, Building, Tenement, or Hereditament, which shall be rated or assessed by virtue of this Act, such Person shall be liable to such Rate or Assessment in Proportion to the Time that he or she occupied the same; and in all Cases where any Person shall come into or occupy any House, Building, Tenement, or Hereditament, rated or assessed as aforesaid, out of or from which any other Person, who shall have been rated or assessed for the same, shall be removed, or which at the Time of making any Rate or Assessment was empty or unoccupied, the Person coming into or occupying the same shall be liable to pay such Rate or Assessment in respect thereof in Proportion to the Time that he or she occupied the same; which said respective Proportions, in case of Dispute, shall be settled and ascertained by the said Commissioners.