Fifth Report of the Vestry of the Parish of Chelsea in the County of Middlesex, Appointed Under the Metropolis Local Management Act, 1855: 1860-1 — John Shaqi
Fifth Report of the Vestry of the Parish of Chelsea in the County of Middlesex, Appointed Under the Metropolis Local Management Act, 1855: 1860-1Lahee, Charles
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Fifth Report of the Vestry of the Parish of Chelsea in the County of Middlesex, Appointed Under the Metropolis Local Management Act, 1855: 1860-1
Lahee, Charles
Chelsea (London, England) -- History -- 19th century; Chelsea (London, England) -- Politics and government
herein provided: Provided also,
that no person shall be eligible
to fill the office of auditor of
accounts who is not qualified to
fill the office of Vestryman for
the parish; but no person shall
be eligible to fill the office of
auditor who is a member of the
vestry; and if any person be
chosen to be both a member of the
vestry and auditor of accounts,
he shall be incapable of acting
as a vestryman.
XII. The auditors first elected _There appears to be no reason
under this Act in any parish as why the annual election might not
aforesaid shall go out of office be fixed for the_ 1_st of May_
at the time appointed for the (sec. 7); _the audit cannot
election of vestrymen and commence until the_ 1_st of May_
auditors in the year one thousand (sec. 195), _it may therefore
eight hundred and fifty-seven, happen that the auditors go out
and _the auditors then elected of office before they can
and to be thereafter elected commence their audit_.
shall go out of office at the
election of vestrymen and
auditors in the year next
following their election_.
XVI. On the day of election of _How are the churchwardens to
vestrymen and auditors in any know officially from the chairman
parish under this Act the of the ward meetings who are
parishioners then rated to the elected_? _and_, _in the case of
relief of the poor in the parish, persons elected to supply
or, where the parish is divided vacancies caused otherwise than
into wards under this Act, in the by effluxion of time_, (sec. 9),
ward thereof for which the _in whose places_?
election is holden, and who are
desirous of voting, shall meet at _Where there is a poll_, _the
the place appointed for such inspectors certify to the
election, and shall then and chairmen_, (sec. 22,) _and the
there nominate two ratepayers of chairmen should be required to
the parish, or (if the parish be certify under their hands to the
divided into wards) of the ward churchwardens_, _in a similar
for which the election is holden, way_. _Where there is no poll_,
as fit and proper persons to be _they should certify in
inspectors of votes; and the accordance with their
churchwardens, or, in the case of declaration_.
a ward election, such one of the
churchwardens as is present
thereat, or, where one of the
churchwardens is not present, the
person appointed by them to
preside thereat, shall,
immediately after such nomination
as aforesaid by the parishioners,
nominate two other such
ratepayers to be such inspectors;
and after such nominations the
said parishioners shall elect
such persons duly qualified as
may be there proposed for the
offices of vestrymen and auditors
or auditor: _and the chairman at
such meeting shall declare the
names of the parishioners who
have been elected by a majority
of votes at such meeting_:
Provided nevertheless, that no
person shall be entitled to join
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