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Parliamentary Elections Act 1695
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VI.Proviso as to Trustees, Mortgagees, &c. voting.
Conveyances to multiply Votes, &c. void.
And bee itt also enacted That noe Person or Persons shall bee allowed to have any Vote in Election of Members to serve in Parliament for or by reason of any Trust Estate or Mortgage unlesse such Trustee or Mortgagee be in actuall possession or receipt of the Rents and Profitts of the same Estate, but that the Mortgagor or Cestui que trust in possession shall and may vote for the same Estate notwithstanding such Mortgage or Trust And that all Conveyances of any Mesuages Lands Tenements or Hereditaments in any County City Borough Towne Corporate Port or Place in order to multiply Voices or to splitt and divide the Interest in any Houses or Lands among severall Persons to enable them to vote att Elections of Members to serve in Parliament are hereby declared to bee void and of none Effect and that noe more than one single Voice shall bee admitted for one and the same House or Tenement.
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