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Details of MH 12/13904/35
Reference: MH 12/13904/35
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Content: Folio 45. Letter from Thomas Day, Clerk to the Guardians of the Bromsgrove Poor Law Union, to the Poor Law Commission, asking for advice on behalf of the overseers of Bromsgrove parish. If a voting paper is left at a voter's house, often a person calls and asks if he may fill it up. On agreeing it may later appear that the preferred candidate has not been chosen. If the voting paper is filled up in the absence of the voter have overseers the right to reject the vote? Or if a voter cannot write should the initials of the voter and the witness be placed opposite the chosen candidate and if this has not happened can the overseers reject the vote? Also what is procedure in case of proxy vote? Have the overseers any discretion in these matters? Annotations: papers can be rejected if overseers are informed of irregularities or if initials of voters or proxies are not countersigned by witnesses. Paper Number: 2410/C/1839. Poor Law Union Number 526. Counties: Worcestershire, Warwickshire, Staffordshire, Shropshire.
Date: 27 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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