Catalogue description Content: Folios 34-35. Letter from [Henry Walter Parker], Assistant Secretary to the...

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Details of MH 12/13904/27
Reference: MH 12/13904/27
Description:
Content: Folios 34-35. Letter from [Henry Walter Parker], Assistant Secretary to the Poor Law Commission, to Mr Vincent, Assistant Overseer, Redditch, giving his opinion as to whether a ratepayer who is not entitled to vote is eligible to be elected as guardian. He states that the proviso in the 40th section of the Poor Law Amendment Act stating that no person shall be deemed a ratepayer unless he has been rated to relief of poor for a whole year and has paid the parochial rate assessment for that period in no way affects the qualification to be a guardian. The qualification of a guardian is not that he should be a ratepayer but that he should be rated. To be a ratepayer includes several requisites and only one of these is that he should be rated. The Commission is satisfied that to be qualified as a guardian it is sufficient that the person be on the rate book at the time of election even though he has not made any payment. They are of the opinion that a court of law will construe a qualification liberally and not strictly and will not constrict the choice of the voters. Paper Number: 2231/C/1839. Poor Law Union Number 526. Counties: Worcestershire, Warwickshire, Staffordshire, Shropshire.
Date: 22 Mar 1839
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description

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