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being, the Tenant of the said Manor for the time being, (who
were to be perpetual Trustees) together with twelve other Trustees
were appointed, the qualification of a Trustee, other than the
Hector and Churchwardens, being that he should be an Inhabitant
of the said Parish, and in his own right rated to the Land Tax
Assessment for some estate, in lands, tenements or hereditaments
to the amout of fifty pounds per annum, or possessed of a personal
Estate to the amount of one thousand pounds
2 That in the year 1808 a further Local Act (48 Geo 3rd cap 21) was
passed intituled "An Act for the better assessing and collecting the
"Poor and other Rates in the Parish of St Mary, Newington, in
"the County of Surrey, and regulating the Poor thereof," for the
purpose of investing the Churchwardens and Overseers with
special powers to make and collect the Rates to be levied in the
Parish and to compound with the Owners of Houses for the rates
of small houses
3 That in the year 1814 a further Local Act (54 Geo 3rd cap 113)
was passed intituled " An Act for the better assessing and collecting
"the Poor and other Rates in the Parish of St Mary, Newington,
"in the County of Surrey, and regulating the Poor thereof; and
"granting other powers in lieu thereof for rebuilding or repairing
"the Workhouse and removing and preventing encroachments and
"annoyances in the said Parish; and for other purposes relating
" thereto" By this Act, the before-recited Act 48 Geo 3rd cap
21 was repealed, and the management and care of the Poor; the
making and collecting of Rates ; the prevention of encroachments;
the collection of House refuse and removal of nuisances; suppression
of Street Obstructions, and other Parochial matters, became vested
in the resident Justices of the Peace for the County of Surrey, the
Rector, Churchwardens, Overseers and thirty-two Governors and
Guardians, the election of the Governors and Guardians being
vested in the Inhabitants in Vestry assembled on Easter Tuesday in
every year The qualification of a Governor and Guardian
(section 4) other than the Rector, Churchwardens, Overseers and
resident Justices of the Peace, is that he should be a Tenant or
Occupier of lands, tenements or hereditaments within the said
Parish assessed to the Rates at the rent of thirty pounds per annum
or upwards and be seised or possessed in his own right or in the
right of his wife, or be in the actual possession or receipt of the
rents or profits of Freehold or Leasehold lands, tenements or hereditaments
of the clear yearly value of fifty pounds, or possessing a
real or personal estate of the amount or value of one thousand pounds
over and above the amount that would be sufficient to satisfy and
discharge his just debts By sec 3 of this Act the Governors and
Guardians in office have power to fill up any vacancy occasioned
by death, removal, resignation, disqualification, refusal or neglect