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Qualification of Commissioners.
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XXV. Every Person who shall have been for Twelve Months preceding the First Day of January in the Tear in which such Election is held the immediate Lessor of Lands, Tenements, and Hereditaments within such Town, or within such Boundaries of the same respectively as aforesaid, of the Value of Fifty Pounds or upwards, according to the last Poor Law Valuation, and who shall reside within Five Miles of the Boundary of such Town, and also any Householder or Occupier of full Age rated to the Relief of the Poor in respect of a Dwelling House in the Town at the net annual Value of Twelve Pounds or upwards, not being an Ecclesiastic of any religious Denomination, shall be eligible to be elected a Commissioner for the Purposes of this Act, and may be proposed at such Meeting by any Householder or Occupier qualified to vote under the Provision herein-before contained, and may be seconded by any other Householder or Occupier qualified to vote as aforesaid.
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