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Voting of owners or immediate lessors rated under recited provisions.
6 & 7 Vict. c. 92. ss. 1, 4. 12 & 13 Vict. c. 91. s. 63. 12 & 13 Vict. c. 104. s. 10.
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17. And whereas doubts have been entertained whether owners or immediate lessors of property who are rated under the provisions of the Poor Relief (Ireland) Act, 1843, sections one and four, or under the provisions of the Act of the twelfth and thirteenth years of Her Majesty, chapter ninety one, section sixty-three, or under the provisions of the Poor Relief (Ireland) Act, 1849, section ten, are entitled to vote as ratepayers in respect of property for which they are so rated: Be it enacted, that it shall be lawful for owners or immediate lessors who are so rated as aforesaid to vote, in person or by proxy, in the election of guardians in respect of the property or rent for which they are so rated, in the same manner as occupiers paying no rent or paying rent less than the net annual value of the rateable property, as the case may be; provided, that every such owner or immediate lessor or his proxy shall have lodged a statement in the manner herein-before provided with reference to persons claiming to vote in respect of property not in their actual occupation.
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