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register; and such Minister shall not give or pay, as a fee PART II. or reward to any officer or officers belonging to the Court aforesaid, above the sum of sixpence for his or their entry of such Minister's making and subscribing the said last- Stat. 19 mentioned declaration, and taking the oaths, and making G. 3. c. 44. and subscribing the declaration against Popery, required by the said Act, made in the first year of the reign of King William and Queen Mary, to be taken, made, and subscribed by Protestant Dissenting Ministers; nor above the sum of sixpence for any certificate thereof to be made out and signed by the officer or officers of the said Court; and every such person, qualifying himself as aforesaid, shall be exempted from serving in the militia of this kingdom; and and shall shall also be exempted from any imprisonment, or other be exemptpunishment, by virtue of an Act, made in the thirteenth serving in and fourteenth years of the reign of King Charles the Se- the militia, cond intituled An Act for the Uniformity of Public Prayers and from and Administration of Sacraments, and other Rites and Ce-any punishremonies; and for establishing the Form of making, ordain- virtue of ing, and consecrating Bishops, Priests, and Deacons, in the the Act of Church of England; or by an Act made in the fifteenth ty. year of the same reign, intituled An Act for Relief of such Persons as by Sickness, or other Impediment, were disabled from subscribing the Declaration in the Act of Uniformity, and Explanation of part of the said Act; for preaching or officiating in any congregation of Protestant Dissenters, for the exercise of religion permitted and allowed by law.

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II. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, Dissenters That no Dissenting Minister, nor any other Protestant dis- allowed to senting from the Church of England, who shall take the instruct aforesaid oaths, and make and subscribe the above-men-youth. tioned declaration against Popery, and the declaration herein-before mentioned, shall be prosecuted in any Court whatsoever, for teaching and instructing youth as a tutor or schoolmaster; any law or statute to the contrary notwithstanding.

college or

III. Provided always, That nothing in this Act con- No Dissentained shall extend, or be construed to extend, to the ena-ter to hold bling of any person dissenting from the Church of England the masterto obtain or hold the mastership of any college or school of ship of any royal foundation, or of any other endowed college or school school of for the education of youth, unless the same shall have been royal founfounded since the first year of the reign of their late Ma-dation, &c. jesties King William and Queen Mary, for the immediate use and benefit of Protestant Dissenters.

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PART II. Act, made in the first year of the reign of King William CLASS and Queen Mary, be a public or private Act; be it enacted III. and declared, That the said Act, and also this present Act, Stat. 19 shall be adjudged, deemed, and taken to be public Acts; G.3.c.44. and shall be judicially taken notice of as such by all Judges, this Act, to Justices, and other persons whomsoever, without specially be deemed pleading them, or either of them.

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Anno 52 GEO. III. Cap. 155.

An Act to repeal certain Acts, and amend other Acts relating to Religious Worship and Assemblies, and Persons teaching or preaching therein. [29th July 1812.]

WHEREAS it is expedient that certain Acts of Parliament, made in the reign of his late Majesty King Charles the Second, relating to Nonconformists and conventicles, and refusing to take oaths, should be repealed, and that the laws relating to certain congregations and assemblies for religious worship, and persons teaching, preaching, or officiating therein, and resorting thereto, should be amended; be it therefore enacted by the King's most excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parlia ment assembled, and by the authority of the same, That, from and after the passing of this Act, an Act of Parliament, made in the session of Parliament, held in the thirteenth and fourteenth years of his late Majesty King Charles the Second, intituled An Act for preventing the Mischiefs and Dangers that may arise by certain Persons called Car. 2. c. 1. Quakers, and others, refusing to take lawful Oaths; and another Act of Parliament, made in the seventeenth year of the reign of his late Majesty King Charles the Second, inti17 Car. 2. tuled An Act for restraining Nonconformists from inhabiting in Corporations; and another Act of Parliament, made in the twenty-second year of the reign of the late King Charles 22 Car. 2. the Second, intituled An Act to prevent and suppress sedi tious Conventicles, shall be and the same are hereby repealed.

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II. And be it further enacted, That from and after the passing of this Act, no congregation or assembly for religious worship of Protestants (at which there shall be present more than twenty persons besides the immediate family and servants of the person in whose house or upon whose premises such meeting, congregation, or assembly shall be

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had) shall be permitted or allowed, unless and until the PART II. place of such meeting, if the same shall not have been duly certified and registered under any former Act or Acts of Parliament relating to registering places of religious wor- Stat. 52 ship, shall have been or shall be certified to the Bishop of G.3. c. 155. the diocese, or to the Archdeacon of the archdeaconry, or to the Justices of the Peace at the General or Quarter Sessions of the Peace for the county, riding, division, city, town, or place in which such meeting shall be held; and all places of meeting which shall be so certified to the Bishop's or Archdeacon's Court, shall be returned by such Court once in each year to the Quarter Sessions of the county, riding, division, city, town, or place; and all places of meeting which shall be so certified to the Quarter Sessions of the Peace shall be also returned once in each year to the Bishop or Archdeacon; and all such places shall be registered in the said Bishop's or Archdeacon's Court respectively, and recorded at the said General or Quarter Sessions; the Registrar or Clerk of the Peace whereof respectively is hereby required to register and record the same; and the Bishop or Registrar or Clerk of the Peace to whom any such place of meeting shall be certified under Certificate. this Act shall give a certificate thereof to such person or persons as shall request or demand the same, for which there shall be no greater fee nor reward taken than two shillings Fee. and six pence; and every person who shall knowingly permit or suffer any such congregation or assembly as aforesaid to meet in any place occupied by him, until the same shall have been so certified as aforesaid, shall forfeit for every time any such congregation or assembly shall meet contrary to the provisions of this Act, a sum not exceeding Penalty. twenty pounds, nor less than twenty shillings, at the discretion of the Justices who shall convict for such offence.

&c. without

III. Provided always, and be it further enacted, That Teaching, every person who shall teach or preach in any congregation consent of or assembly as aforesaid, in any place, without the consent occupiers. of the occupier thereof, shall forfeit for every such offence Penalty. any sum not exceeding thirty pounds, nor less than forty shillings, at the discretion of the Justices who shall convict for such offence.

IV. And be it further enacted, That from and after the Preachers in and perpassing of this Act, every person who shall teach or preach sons resortat, or officiate in, or shall resort to any congregation or con- ing to religregations, assembly or assemblies, for religious worship of gious asProtestants, whose place of meeting shall be duly certified semblies, according to the provisions of this Act, or any other Act or under Act,

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PART II. Acts of Parliament relating to the certifying and registering of places of religious worship, shall be exempt from all such No. 3. pains and penalties under any Act or Acts of Parliament Stat. 52 relating to religious worship, as any person who shall have taken the oaths, and made the declaration prescribed by or mentioned in an Act, made in the first year of the reign of King William and Queen Mary, intituled An Act for exempting their Majesties' Protestant Subjects dissenting from the Church of England, from the Penalties of certain Laws, or any Act amending the said Act, is by law exempt, as fully and effectually as if all such pains and penalties, and the several Acts enforcing the same, were recited in this Act, and such exemptions as aforesaid were severally and separately enacted in relation thereto.

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Oaths, &c. taken by

V. Provided always, and be it further enacted, That every person not having taken the oaths and subscribed the preachers, declaration herein-after specified, who shall preach or teach required by at any place of religious worship certified in pursuance of magistrate. the directions of this Act, shall, when thereto required by

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any one Justice of the Peace, by any writing under his hand or signed by him, take and make and subscribe, in the presence of such Justice of the Peace, the oaths and declarations specified and contained in an Act, passed in the nineteenth year of the reign of his Majesty King George the 19 G. 3. Third, intituled An Act for the further Relief of Protestant Dissenting Ministers and Schoolmasters; and no such person who, upon being so required to take such oaths and make such declaration as aforesaid, shall refuse to attend the Justice requiring the same, or to take and make and subscribe such oaths and declaration as aforesaid, shall be thereafter permitted or allowed to teach or preach in any such congregation or assembly for religious worship, until he shall have taken such oaths, and made such declaration as aforesaid, on pain of forfeiting, for every time he shall so teach or preach, any sum not exceeding ten pounds nor less than ten shillings, at the discretion of the Justice convicting for such offence.

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Not compelled to go more

than five miles.

Who may

VI. Provided always, and be it further enacted, That no person shall be required by any Justice of the Peace to go to any greater distance than five miles from his own home, or from the place where he shall be residing at the time of such requisition, for the purpose of taking such oaths as aforesaid.

VII. And be it further enacted, That it shall be lawful require for any of his Majesty's Protestant subjects to appear before any one Justice of the Peace, and to produce to such

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Justice of the peace a printed or written copy of the said PART II. oaths and declaration, and to require such Justice to ad- CLASS minister such oaths and to tender such declaration to be made, taken, and subscribed by such person; and thereupon Stat. 52 it shall be lawful for such Justice, and he is hereby authorized and required to administer such oaths and to ten- to adminis der such declaration to the person requiring to take and ter oaths, make and subscribe the same; and such person shall take &c. under and make and subscribe such oaths and declaration in the presence of such Justice accordingly; and such Justice shall attest the same to be sworn before him, and shall transmit or deliver the same to the Clerk of the Peace for the county, riding, division, city, town, or place for which he shall act as such Justice of the Peace, before or at the next General or Quarter Sessions of the Peace for such county, riding, division, city, town, or place.

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VIII. And be it further enacted, that every Justice of Justices to the Peace before whom any person shall make and take give certiand subscribe such oaths and declaration as aforesaid, shall oath. forthwith give to the person having taken, made, and subscribed such oaths and declaration, a certificate thereof under the hand of such Justice, in the form following; that is to say,

I A. B. one of his Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the county [riding, division, city, or town, or place, as the case may be of do hereby certify, That C. D. of, &c. [describing the Christian and surname, and place of abode of the party] did this day appear before me, and did make and take and subscribe the several oaths and declaration specified in an Act, made in the fifty-second year of the reign of King George the Third, intituled [set forth the title of this Act.] Witness my hand this day of

one thousand eight hundred and

And for the making and signing of which certificate, where the said oaths and declaration are taken and made on the requisition of the party taking and making the same, such Justice shall be entitled to demand and have a fee of two Fee. shillings and six pence, and no more: and such certificate Certificate shall be conclusive evidence that the party named therein evidence. has made and taken the oaths and subscribed the declaration in manner required by this Act.

IX. And be it further enacted, That every person who Teachers shall teach or preach in any such congregation or assembly, taking or congregations or assemblies, as aforesaid, who shall em exempt ploy himself solely in the duties of a teacher or preacher, from of

oaths, &c.

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