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Qualification of elected Members.
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XVI. And be it enacted, That every Person elected as aforesaid shall at the Time of his Election, and so long as he shall continue in Office by virtue of such Election, be resident within the District for which or for Part of which he is elected, or within Seven Miles thereof, and be seised or possessed of Real or Personal Estate, or both, to such Value or Amount as shall be fixed by such Order in Council or Provisional Order as aforesaid (as the Case may require), within the Limits next herein-after provided, or be so resident, and rated to the Relief of the Poor of some Parish, Township, or Place of which some Part within such District or Part of a District, upon such annual Value as shall be fixed by such Order in Council or Provisional Order (as the Case may require), within the Limits next herein-after provided: Provided always, that it shall not be lawful to require that any Person be seised or possessed as aforesaid to a Value or Amount exceeding One thousand Pounds, or to require that any Person be rated upon an annual Value exceeding Thirty Pounds; provided also, that if Two or more Persons be jointly seised or possessed of Real or Personal Estate, or both, of such Value or Amount as would, if equally divided between them, qualify each to be elected, or if Two or more Persons be jointly rated in respect of any Property which if equally divided between them would qualify each to be so elected, each of the Persons so jointly seised, possessed, or rated may be elected; but the same Property shall not at the same Time qualify both the Owner and the Occupier thereof.
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