Section 1 Trustees and parish officers in vestry assembled may let portions of poor allotments to industrious cottagers.C1

It shall and may be lawful for the trustees of the said allotments, together with the churchwardens and overseers of the poor, in parish vestry assembled, and they are hereby required, to let portions of any such allotments, not less than one fourth of a statute acre, and not exceeding one such acre, to any one individual, according to their discretion, as a yearly occupation from Michaelmas to Michaelmas, (and at such rent as land of the same quality is usually let for in the said parish,) to such industrious cottagers of good character, being day labourers or journeymen legally settled in the said parish, and dwelling within or near its bounds, as shall apply for the same in the manner herein-after mentioned.