Section 1 Persons rated to the poor, though not parishioners, may vote in vestry according to the value of the premises rated.C1

Any person who shall be assessed and rated for the relief of the poor in respect of any annual rent, profit, or value arising from any lands, tenements, or hereditaments situate in any parish in which any vestry shall be holden under the said recited Act, although such person shall not reside in or be an inhabitant of such parish, shall and may lawfully be present at such vestry; and such person shall have and be entitled to give such and so many vote or votes at such vestry in respect of the amount of such rent, profit, or value, as by the said Act any inhabitant of such parish present at such vestry might or ought to have and be entitled to give in respect of such amount, and to all intents and purposes as if such person were an inhabitant of such parish; any thing in the said recited Act to the contrary in anywise notwithstanding.