The ACT for the Amendment of the Poor Laws - Softcover

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1835. Excerpt: ... and proportion of votes respectively as is provided for inhabitants and other persons in and by an act made and passed in the fifty-eighth year of 58G.3, c. 69. the reign of his said late Majesty King George the Third, intituled, " An Act for the Regulation of Parish Vestries," and in and by an act to amend the same, made and passed in the fiftyScale of ninth year of his said late majesty; and the ratevoting. payers under two hundred pounds shall each have a single vote: and the rate-payers rated at two hundred pounds or more, but under four hundred pounds, shall each have two votes, and the rate-payers rated at four hundred pounds or more, shall each have three votes; and the majority of the votes of such owners and ratepayers which shall be actually collected and returned shall in every such case be binding on such parish; and for the purpose of ascertaining the number of votes to which each such owner shall be entitled, the aggregate amount of the assessment for the time being of any property belonging to such owner in such parish, or on any person or persons in respect of the same, to the poor rate, shall be deemed to be and be taken as the annual value of such property to such owner; and where any such owner shall be the bona fide occupier of any such property, he shall be entitled to vote as well in respect of his Votes maybe occupation as of his being such owner: provided given by. proxy. always, that it shall be lawful for any owner from time to time, by writing under his hand, to appoint any person to vote as his proxy; and every such appointment shall remain in force until revoked or recalled by such owner; but no owner shall be entitled to vote, either in person or proxy, unless he shall, previous to the day on which he shall claim to vote, hav...