Inclosure Act 1773

5 Occupiers of common field lands in every parish how to assemble and elect field reeves. E+W+S

And it shall and may be lawful to and for the occupiers of open and common field lands in any parish or place where any rules, orders or regulations shall have been agreed upon for the ordering, fencing, cultivating or improving of such lands, in pursuance of this Act, and they are hereby required, to meet and assemble at some convenient place, yearly and every year, on the twenty-first day of May, or within three days after, in pursuance of six days notice to be given of the time and place of such meeting by one-third of the occupiers in manner aforesaid, then and there to elect and chuse one or more proper person or persons to be the field master or field reeve, field masters or field reeves, for the year ensuing; and such person or persons who shall, by the major part of the occupiers of the said lands present at such meeting, be chosen field master or field reeve, field masters or field reeves, to superintend the ordering, fencing, cultivating and improving of the said common field lands, and to see that the same are cultivated according to the rules, orders and regulations agreed upon at the general meeting for that purpose, and shall continue in the said office for one whole year, unless he shall die, or be removed by virtue of the power and authority herein-after given in that behalf.