An Act to amend the Acts for the Regulation of Parish Vestries,
[15th August 1853]
WHEREAS an [58 G. 3. c. 69.] Act was passed in the Fifty-eighth Year of the Reign of King George the Third, intituled An Act for the Regulation of Parish 'Vestries, by which it was enacted, ".that 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 be present in any Vestry of the Parish for which such Rate shall have been " made until he shall have paid the same :" And whereas by another [59 G. 3. c. 85.] Act passed in the Fifty-ninth Year of the Reign of King George the Third, intituled An Act to amend and correct an Act of the last Session of Parliament, for the Regulation of Parish Vestries in England, it is enacted, "that 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:" And it is expedient to make further Regulations as to the Payment of Rates to qualify Persons to be present and vote at Vestry Meetings in England and Wales :
Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, as follows :
