Allotments Act 1832
[1.] Trustees and parish officers in vestry assembled may let portions of poor allotments to industrious cottagers.
2 Land to be duly cultivated.
3 Vestry to be held annually to receive applications.
4 Payment of rent.
5 If rent is in arrear, or land not duly cultivated, tenant may be evicted.
6 Power to recover possession of land illegally held over, by summary process.
7 Arrears of rent how to be recovered.
8 Application of rent.
9 Power to exchange, for greater convenience of cottagers.
10 No habitations to be erected.
11 Extending powers and provisions of this Act to 1 & 2 W. 4. c. 42 and c. 59.

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Allotments Act 1832

1832 CHAPTER 42 2 and 3 Will 4

An Act to authorize (in parishes inclosed under any Act of Parliament) the letting of the poor allotments in small portions to industrious cottagers.

Whereas in parishes inclosed under Acts of Parliament there are in many cases allotments made for the benefit of the poor, chiefly with a view to fuel, which are now comparatively useless and unproductive: And whereas it would tend much to the welfare and happiness of the poor if those allotments could be let at a fair rent, and in small portions, to industrious cottagers of good character, while the distribution of fuel might be augmented by appropriating the said rents to the purchase of an additional quantity: