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Non-occupying ratepayers to give statement of name, &c. and full description of the property in respect of which they claim to vote, and of their interest therein.
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15. No ratepayer shall be entitled to vote in the election of guardians, either in person or by proxy, in respect of any property not in his actual occupation, or to give any vote in addition to the vote or votes to which he would be entitled as an occupier paying rent equal to the net annual value of the property in his actual occupation, unless he or his proxy shall, one month at the least previous to the day on which he shall claim to vote, have given to the guardians, or to some person acting as returning officer, a statement in writing of the name and address of such ratepayer, and the description and local situation of the property in respect of which he claims to vote, specifying, in cities, towns, and their suburbs having streets and other roadways, the name of the street or roadway, and the number of the house or tenement, if any, and the parish in which the property is situate, and in other places the barony, parish, and townland, so that the property may be ascertained and identified with reasonable certainty, together with the nature of the interest of the ratepayer therein, and its net annual value over and above all rents payable by him, and the amount of rent payable to him, and the names of the tenants or occupiers by whom poor rates have been deducted from such rent; and no such proxy shall be entitled to claim to vote unless such proxy shall have given to the guardians, or some person acting as returning officer, one month at the least previous to the day on which he shall claim to vote, the original or an attested copy of the writing appointing such proxy; and every such claim to vote, whether by the ratepayer or his proxy, shall be executed in the presence of a justice of the peace.
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