Vestries Act 1819 F2(repealed 1.6.1992)

Any person who shall be assessed and rated for the relief of the poor in respect of any annual rent, profit, or value arising from any lands, tenements, or hereditaments situate in any parish in which any vestry shall be holden under the said recited Act, although such person shall not reside in or be an inhabitant of such parish, shall and may lawfully be present at such vestry; and such person shall have and be entitled to give such and so many vote or votes at such vestry in respect of the amount of such rent, profit, or value, as by the said Act any inhabitant of such parish present at such vestry might or ought to have and be entitled to give in respect of such amount, and to all intents and purposes as if such person were an inhabitant of such parish; any thing in the said recited Act to the contrary in anywise notwithstanding.

In all cases where any corporation or body politic or corporate or company shall be charged to the rate for the relief of the poor of such parish, either in the name of such corporation or of any officer of the said corporation, it shall and may be lawful for the clerk, secretary, steward, or other agent duly authorized for that purpose of such corporation or body politic or corporate or company, to be present at any vestry to be holden in the said parish under the said recited Act; and such clerk, secretary, steward, or agent shall be entitled to give such and so many vote or votes at such vestry in respect of the amount of the rent, profit, or value of such lands, tenements, or hereditaments, as by the said Act any inhabitant assessed to such rate present at such vestry might or ought to have and be entitled to in respect of such amount; anything in the said recited Act to the contrary in anywise notwithstanding.

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F3 No person who shall have refused or neglected to pay any rate for the relief of the poor, which shall be due from and shall have been demanded of him, shall be entitled to vote or to be present in any vestry of the parish for which such rate shall have been made, until he shall have paid the same; nor shall any such clerk, secretary, steward, or agent be entitled to be present or to vote, nor shall be present or vote, at any vestry in such parish, unless all rates for the relief of the poor which shall have been assessed and charged upon or in respect of the annual rent, profit, or value, in right of which any such clerk, secretary, steward, or agent shall claim to be present and vote, which shall be due and which shall have been demanded at any time before the meeting of such vestry, shall have been paid and satisfied.