VIIQualification of Surveyor.

And be it further enacted, That any Person living within the Parish or any adjoining Parish, and having an Estate in Houses, Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments lying within such Parish, in his own Right or in Right of his Wife, of the Value of Ten Pounds by the Year, or a Personal Estate of the Value of One hundred Pounds (such Person not living within the Parish being willing to serve the Office), or being an Occupier or Tenant of Houses, Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments (whether resident within the Parish or within any adjoining Parish) of the yearly Value of Twenty Pounds, shall be eligible to be elected a Surveyor for the Purposes of this Act: Provided nevertheless, that no Person who is now exempted by Law from serving the Office of Overseer of the Poor shall be compellable to serve the Office of Surveyor: Provided also, that any Person who may be chosen and elected to serve the said Office of Surveyor may provide a sufficient Deputy, such Deputy to be approved of by the Justices at a Special Sessions for the Highways, who shall by Writing under their Hands testify their Consent thereto.