ratepaying

There was a restricted property qualification for elections to the Boards, based on ownership and ratepaying.

Votes For Women : 1918, 1870 or Earlier ?

The people were alive at a very early date to the importance of improving the roads; and as far back as 1793 an Act was passed at Niagara, then the seat of government, placing the roads under overseers or road-masters, as they were called, appointed by the ratepaying inhabitants at their annual town meetings.

Life in Canada Fifty Years Ago

| Pages 289, 361 and 374: Spelling of rate-paying and ratepaying not |

The Political History of England - Vol XI From Addington's Administration to the close of William IV.'s Reign (1801-1837)

The councillors were to be elected directly by ratepaying occupiers, with a saving for the prescriptive rights of existing freemen.

The Political History of England - Vol XI From Addington's Administration to the close of William IV.'s Reign (1801-1837)

The elective franchise in counties, hitherto confined to freeholders, was to be conferred on £10 copyholders and £50 leaseholders; the borough franchise was to exclude "scot and lot" voters, "potwallopers" and most other survivals of antiquated electorates, but to include ratepaying £10 householders.

The Political History of England - Vol XI From Addington's Administration to the close of William IV.'s Reign (1801-1837)

These words affect the question as to the right of the ratepaying parishioners of a new district voting for the

Churchwardens' Manual their duties, powers, rights, and privilages

Niagara, then the seat of government, placing the roads under overseers or road-masters, as they were called, appointed by the ratepaying inhabitants at their annual town meetings.

Country Life in Canada Fifty Years Ago Personal recollections and reminiscences of a sexagenarian

He is an asset to the district and the ratepaying public.

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