Inclosure Act 1845

108 Allotment for the labouring poor shall be managed by the allotment wardens.E+W

The allotment which upon any inclosure under this Act shall be made for the labouring poor shall be under the management of the incumbent of the parish or ecclesiastical district in which such allotment shall be situate, (or the officiating minister for the time being nominated by the incumbent for that purpose,) the churchwarden, if there be but one, or (if there be more than one) one of the churchwardens for the time being of such parish, and two other persons who shall be rated to the relief of the poor in such parish; and such churchwarden, where there is more than one churchwarden, shall be yearly named, and such two other persons shall be yearly chosen and appointed, at the same time, and by the same persons, and in the same manner, as the overseers of the poor for such parish shall be chosen and appointed, and shall continue in office in like manner until the next appointment of overseers, or until others are named and chosen and appointed in their stead; and such incumbent, (or officiating minister), churchwarden, and two other persons for the time being shall be styled “The Allotment Wardens” of the parish, and shall manage and let the said allotment as herein-after provided, and all things by this Act authorized to be done by such allotment wardens may be done by any two of them, and in the event of the death or retirement from office of any one or more of the said allotment wardens the surviving or continuing wardens may act as if no such vacancy had happened.