Metropolis Management Act 1855

VI Qualification of Vestrymen.

The Vestry elected under this Act in any Parish shall consist of Persons rated or assessed to the Relief of the Poor upon a Rental of not less than Forty Pounds per Annum ; and no Person shall be capable of acting or being elected as One of such Vestry for any Parish unless he be the Occupier of a House, Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments in such Parish, and be rated or assessed as aforesaid upon such Rental as aforesaid within such Parish: Provided always, that in any Parish in which the Number of Poor Rate Assessments at Forty Pounds or upwards does not exceed One Sixth of the whole Number of such Assessments it shall not be necessary, in order to qualify a Person to be a Vestryman, that the Amount of Rental upon which he is rated or assessed as aforesaid exceed Twenty-five Pounds: Provided also, that the joint Occupation of any such Premises as aforesaid, and a joint Rating in respect thereof, shall be sufficient to qualify each joint Occupier in case the Amount of Rental on which all such Occupiers are jointly rated will, when divided by the Number of Occupiers, give for each such Occupier a Sum not less than the Amount herein-before required.