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Votes may be given by proxy.
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84. It shall be lawful for any rate-payer from time to time by writing under his hand to appoint any person to vote as his proxy in respect of any property not in the actual occupation of such rate-payer; and every such appointment shall remain in force until revoked; but no rate-payer shall be entitled to vote, 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 week at the least previous to the day on which he shall claim to vote, have given a statement (in writing of his name and address, and the description of the property in respect of which he claims to vote;, and of his interest therein, and, if such proxy shall claim to vote, the original or an attested copy of the writing appointing such proxy, to the guardians, or some person acting as the returning officer at such election; and the said guardians, or the person acting as returning officer, shall enter on the rate books of the union, or in some other book to be from time to time provided for that purpose, the names and addresses of the rate-payers and proxies who shall send such statements, and the net annual value of the property in respect whereof they respectively claim to vote.
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