VIII. PART I. this Act shall go to the person who shall inform or sue for CLASS the same; and the remainder of such fines as shall be imNo. 1. posed on any Church-warden, or Chapel-warden shall go to Stat. 52 the poor of the parish or place for which such Church-warG.3.c.146. den or Chapel-warden shall serve; and the remainder of such List of all fines as shall be imposed on any Rector, Vicar, Minister, or Curate, or Registrar, shall be paid and applied to such charitable purposes, in the county within which the parish or place shall be, as shall be appointed and directed by the Bishop of the diocese a. XIX. And be it further enacted, That the Rector, extant re- Vicar, Curate, or officiating Minister of every parish and gister books to be trans- chapelry in England, whether subject to the ordinary, pemitted by culiar, or other jurisdiction, shall transmit to the Registrar the officiat- of the diocese in which the parish or chapelry shall be siing Minister to the tuated, before the first day of June, one thousand eight Registrar hundred and thirteen, a list of all registers which now are before the in such parish or chapelry respectively, stating the periods June, 1813. at which they respectively commence and terminate, the periods (if any) for which they are deficient, and the places where they are deposited. first of Provisions XX. And be it further enacted, That all and every the of this Act provisions in this Act shall extend, so far as circumstances to extend to will permit, to cathedral and collegiate churches and chaand chapels pels of colleges or hospitals, and the burying grounds be churches not pa rochial. longing thereto; and to the Ministers who shall officiate in such cathedral or collegiate churches, and chapels of colleges or hospitals and burying grounds respectively, and shall baptize, marry, or bury any person or persons, although such cathedral or collegiate churches, or chapels of colleges or hospitals, or the burying grounds belonging thereto, may not be parochial, or the Ministers officiating therein may not be, as such, parochial Ministers, and there shall be no Church-warden or Church-wardens thereof; and in all such cases, the books herein-before directed to be provided, shall be provided at the expense of the body having right to appoint the officiating Minister in every such cathedral or collegiate church or chapel of a college or hospital; and copies thereof shall be transmitted to the Registrar of the diocese within which such cathedral or collegiate church or chapel of a college or hospital shall be, by the officiating Minister of such church, in like manner as is herein directed with respect to parochial ministers, a By some inadvertence in the penning of this Act, there are no fines or penalties to which the provision can be applied. CLASS VIII. No. 1. and shall be attested by two of the officers of such church, PART I. college, or hospital, as the copies of parochial registers are herein directed to be attested by Church-wardens: Provided always, that nothing in this Act contained shall ex- Stat. 52 tend to repeal any provision contained in an Act passed in G. 3. c. 146. the twenty-sixth year of the reign of his late Majesty King Not to reGeorge the Second, intituled An Act for better preventing peal any Clandestine Marriages. provision of the marriage Act, 26 G. 2. c. 33. SCHEDULES TO WHICH THIS ACT REFERS. Schedule (A.) 1. Baptisms solemnized in the Parish of St. A. in the County of B. Marriages solemnized in the Parish of St. A. in the County of B. this Purish were married f Church S Banns with Consent ( Purents in this this Chapel } by {Licence} Day of of Guardians S Rector By me, I. I. { SA. B. C. D.S Vicar PART I. VIII. No. 1. Stat. 52 G. 3. c. 146. No. 2. Schedule (C.) 1. Burials in the Parish of A. in the County of B. in the year I Day of Schedule (D.) do hereby certify, that I did on the of the United Church of England and Ireland, I A. B. of do hereby certify, that on the aged Day of was buried in [stating the place of burial,] and that the Ceremony of Burial was performed according to the Rites of the United Church of England and Ireland, by me, To the Rector [or, as the case may be] of Schedule (E.) To the Registrar of the Diocese of at A. B.Church-wardens (or Chapel-wardens) of the Parish (or Chapelry) of Anno 4 GEO. IV. Cap. 76. An Act for amending the Laws respecting the Solemnization of Marriages in England. [18th July 1823.] WHEREAS it is expedient to amend the laws respecting the solemnization of marriages in England; Be it enacted by the King's most excellent Majesty, by and with CLASS the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Tem- PARTI. poral, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, That from and after the first day of November next ensuing the passing of this Act, Stat. 4 so much of an Act passed in the twenty-sixth year of the G. 4. c. 76. reign of King George the Second, intituled An Act for the 26 G. 2. c. better preventing of Clandestine Marriages, as was in force 33. immediately before the passing of this Act; and also an 4 G. 4. c. Act passed in the present Session of Parliament, intituled 17. An Act to repeal certain provisions of an Act passed in the third year of his present Majesty, intituled "An Act to "amend certain Provisions of the twenty-sixth of George "the Second, for the better preventing of Clandestine "Marriages," shall be and the same are hereby repealed; repealed. save and except as to any Acts, matters or things done un- Excepder the provisions of the said recited Acts, or either of tions. them, before the said first day of November, as to which the said recited Acts shall respectively be of the same force and effect as if this Act had not been made; save also and except so far as the said recited Acts, or either of them, repeal any former Act, or any clause, matter or thing therein contained. where, be solemn lished. II. And be it further enacted, That from and after the Banns, first day of November all banns of matrimony shall be pub- when and lished in an audible manner in the parish church, or in how pubsome public chapel, in which chapel banns of matrimony lished, and may now or may hereafter be lawfully published, of or be- marriage to longing to such parish or chapelry wherein the persons to ized where be married shall dwell, according to the form of words pre- banns pubscribed by the rubric prefixed to the Office of Matrimony in the Book of Common Prayer, upon three Sundays preceding the solemnization of marriage, during the time of morning service, or of evening service, (if there shall be no morning service in such church or chapel upon the Sunday upon which such banns shall be so published,) immediately after the second lesson; and whensoever it shall happen that the persons to be married shall dwell in divers parishes or chapelries, the banns shall in like manner be published in the church or in any such chapel as aforesaid belonging to such parish or chapelry wherein each of the said persons shall dwell; and that all other the rules prescribed by the said rubric concerning the publication of the banns and solemnization of matrimony, and not hereby altered, shall be duly observed; and that in all cases where banns shall have been published, the marriage shall be solemnized in one of the PART I. parish churches or chapels where such banns shall have been CLASS published, and in no other place whatsoever. VIII. No. 2. Bishop, III. And be it further enacted, That the Bishop of Stat. 4 the diocese, with the consent of the Patron and the InG. 4. c. 76 cumbent of the church of the parish in which any public chapel, having a chapelry thereunto annexed, may be siwith con- tuated, or of any chapel situated in an extra parochial place, sent of Pa- signified to him under their hands and seals respectively, may authorize, by writing under his hand and seal, the publication of banns and the solemnization of marriages in thorize such chapel for persons residing within such chapelry or publication extra parochial place respectively; and such consent, toge any public ther with such written authority, shall be registered in the registry of the diocese. tron and Incumbent, may au of banns in chapel. Notice to be placed in such chapel. Provisions Registers IV. Provided always, and be it enacted, That in every chapel in respect of which such authority shall be given as aforesaid, there shall be placed in some conspicuous part of the interior of such chapel a notice in the words following: "Banns may be published and marriages solemnized in this "chapel." V. Provided always, and be it further enacted, That relative to all provisions now in force, or which may hereafter be estaMarriage blished by law, relative to providing and keeping marriage extended registers in any parish churches, shall extend and be conto chapels strued to extend to any chapel in which the publication so author- of banns and solemnization of marriages shall be so authorized as aforesaid, in the same manner as if the same were a parish church; and every thing required by law to be done relative thereto by the church-wardens of any parish church shall be done by the chapel-warden or other officer exercising analogous duties in such chapel. ized as aforesaid. Book to be VI. And be it further enacted, That on or before the provided said first day of November, and from time to time afterfor the Rewards as there shall be occasion, the church-wardens and gistration of banns, chapel-wardens of churches and chapels wherein marriages are solemnized, shall provide a proper book of substantial paper, marked and ruled respectively in manner directed for the register book of marriages; and the banns shall be published from the said register book of banns by the officiating Minister, and not from loose papers, and after publication shall be signed by the officiating Minister, or by some person under his direction. Notice of VII. Provided always, and it is hereby further enacted, names and That no Parson, Vicar, Minister or Curate shall be obliged place and to publish the banns of matrimony between any persons time of |