f the poor within the said parish or place,
such full and fair annual value to be computed in all parts
of the metropolis, exclusive of the city of London,
according to the last valuation for the time being acted on
in assessing the county rate, or, where there is no county
rate, according to a like estimate or basis; and no liberty,
precinct, or place, shall be exempt from the rate leviable
for the purposes of this Act by reason of its being
extra-parochial or otherwise; and in default of proper
officers in any liberty, precinct, or place, to assess or
levy the said rate, the Board may appoint such officers, and
add the amount of any expenses so incurred to the amount to
be raised by the next succeeding rate in such liberty,
precinct, or place.

Overseers shall, for the purposes of levying any amount
required to be levied by them under this Act, have the same
powers and be subject to the same obligations as in levying
a rate for the relief of the poor.

The word "Overseers" shall include any persons or bodies of
persons authorized or required to make and collect or cause
to be collected rates applicable to the relief of the poor;
and such persons or bodies shall pay to the Board the amount
so mentioned in the precept out of the said rates.

20. In case the amount ordered by any such precept as
aforesaid to be paid by the overseers of any parish or place
be not paid in manner directed by such precept and within
the time therein specified for that purpose, it shall be
lawful for any justice of the peace, upon the complaint by
the Board or by any person authorized by the Board, to issue
his warrant for levying the amount or so much thereof as may
be in arrear by distress and sale of the goods of all or any
of the said overseers, and in case the goods of all the
overseers be not sufficient to pay the same, the arrears
thereof shall be added to the amount of the next levy which
is directed to be made in such parish or place for the
purposes of this Act, and shall be collected by the like
methods.

21. The Board may, with the consent of the Commissioners of
Her Majesty's Treasury, borrow any sum not exceeding forty
thousand pounds, and apply the same for the purposes of this
Act; and all powers contained in the Metropolis