Section 2 Clerks or agent of corporation, &c. may vote in vestry according to the value of the premises rated.

In all cases where any corporation or body politic or corporate or company shall be charged to the rate for the relief of the poor of such parish, either in the name of such corporation or of any officer of the said corporation, it shall and may be lawful for the clerk, secretary, steward, or other agent duly authorized for that purpose of such corporation or body politic or corporate or company, to be present at any vestry to be holden in the said parish under the said recited Act; and such clerk, secretary, steward, or agent shall be entitled to give such and so many vote or votes at such vestry in respect of the amount of the rent, profit, or value of such lands, tenements, or hereditaments, as by the said Act any inhabitant assessed to such rate present at such vestry might or ought to have and be entitled to in respect of such amount; anything in the said recited Act to the contrary in anywise notwithstanding.