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Qualification of electors of Commissioners.
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10.—The following persons and no others shall be entitled to vote in the election of the Commissioners:-
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Firstly: - Every person who at the time of such election shall be in actual occupation of lands or houses rated to the relief of the poor at the net annual valuation of £20 within the urban district and shall for each of the two years next immediately preceding the date of such election have paid rates due on lands or houses of the net annual value of £20 situate as aforesaid except such as shall have become payable within three months next before the date of such election:
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Provided that the premises in respect of the occupation of which any such person shall be qualified as aforesaid in any year shall not be required to be the same premises but may be different premises occupied in immediate succession by him within the urban district;
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Secondly: - Every person registered at the port of Dundalk as the owner of not less than 100 tons register of shipping belonging to the said port;
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Thirdly: - Every person possessed in his own right of not less than the capital sum of £100 in the stock of any shipping company or steam vessel company established at or trading from the port of Dundalk and residing within five miles from the courthouse of Dundalk;
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and in the construction of this section the word “person” shall include “limited liability company” “trading company” and “trading partnership”: and any such limited liability company may vote by any director or by its secretary or other officer duly authorised under seal: and any such trading company or trading partnership may vote by one of its members or partners duly authorised in writing.
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