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Adopting The Same Order In Which Tormer ...
The Society of Deputies imi _* e # i _4 _$ Iy _qn _Iteceipt of the bill , adopted it on behalf of the general body of Dissenters , and ordered it to be agaia _priated arid circulated amongst its _membei-s _^ with an address recommending and explaining its objects ; and thus a _useffttTana efficient co-operation has been , it is hoped , secured in the future _progress of the WJL - _. _. : is hopec _^ , secured in the future progress of the WJL - _... . - ¦ _-, . _,- _, T _^ _e ¥ H _ftsetf hw _& _g h _*^ _Jwg _. _%$ _&** _feu _^ _ijtot . C _^ _nimittes 4 o _*« fc _Jthks _^ it necessary to enter very minutely into its details . Its general principles are to preserve the celebration of b _^^ , _frgLd the obtaining of licenses in tbe same forpa as before ; to permit the parties on producing the certificate of banns or their _ltoeji _^ e _* _tp perform the c _^ _j-e _^ _OBk _^ _acec _^ dj _^ g to their own rites without any _prescribed rite oribtm ; ( except that of " _performing it _lft . a
place of worship to be specially licensed for that purpose , ) and then ,. / to require the minister of the _cfyujQii to enter the marriage in the p a _^ _fpi _register , on the parties appearing before him with two _witnesses , _p | _ft signing there a _declaratior \ _aad _acknowledgment of & X _& K tf > _$ tT | aig _# fra _^ i _$£ been solemnized between them .
Your Committee was fully aware that this , . plan was liable to _considerably practical objections , particularly to the possible irregularities and certai _^ inconveniences which a double attendance of the sort required would oc _$ _? _esasiou ; but oa the other hand , it seemed extrem _& _ly important ta adopt ' {| : _pj _^ _w _& kfc would remove all re _spo ns ibility from Dissenting _ministers , ana _eootiaji Q the attention to ail civil requisites and for _Dualities , in one couimoif _ated of th
( and generally _speaking well _^ reg'ul ) class au orities . _^ * The _eircum & _fcanees which have lately occaai _& _ned great _uncertainly and perplexity in the general Marriage Law of the country , and have led _$ & iti revision , need aot here be detailed . A conviction every where prevaited _, that the labours of the last session tnust undergo a _complete revi _^ k _^ n in the present _^ and it seemed _impossibJe for y diir Committee to proceed _Uy frame any _Regulations fox raeetin _^ their p articular cas e , wkile no one couM diviae what _wawld be the general law on wbick those regulations would Have to be
es _^ _rajted , _aod they therefore found _themeelyes under the _aecesaity of _abandomng ( previous to the sitting of Parliament ) all idea of entering on the _subject for the present _, consoling themselves only with the reflection , that tfae _subject was in all its bearings' become one of public _diseusaioo _, that the old law had lost the _inviolability which had so _lcpg _attaolied to it , and that there would now be le _& s _difficulty ki getting the _LegfelaturB to lend its _« ar : to _{^ rojec _^ _s for its re formation . mad the of
Unexpectedly , _bowever , a _^ _opening Was e for _tonewal the _Commlfrteie _^ s ekertibhs' , by the reference of _tfee whole Marriage Law of the country iio ia _Conimtfetce of the _House of Lords , for the purpose of conmde _^ _Bg what plan _e _^ _koifM he ado _pted for _remodelKog and _ne _ducmg it mto one _oawdstevtt code . Yanr _Coo _^ mitCee tho ught that such a proceeding * called itaperath e _^ _y upon _tbeai to _presa the case of Dissenters ( particularly Qf Unitarians ) upon tbe notice of the House . If they bad _jsuflfered the obof the old Me Act to be
noxious _t _^ asis _iaiag e adopted again , without at any rate a protest on their part , they would have felt that they not only passed by a _favourable © _rppoist _* i >& lty fQr ud _^ _ooating tbeir claims , but left themselves exposed ' to the objection , wlm | i has been urged against the conduct of the _Dieseuters , who , _^ when _Ljcdrd' _Wardwleke _^ _AJst passed , suffered the Jews and _Quakevs la be the only con sig teat _Noaconforaaista who raised _ttp their voices _against the tendency of the _me & _ztwe _.
It _appeared _obvious Cm the words of tli « Civilian quoted by _Che la & t Report ) that _** t _^ ie Act ( 26 _Gett . II . ) was _parsed to preven t } marriages _fbom being ( contrary to the _general : good of _tfee comimimty > _clandeBtme _; _ttiat _amoag the means . adopted by the Act tojprevent _Clandestine MarriageB > tlie p _*^" cdpal _fe t » _Compel all persons i _^ _Engjand except Jews and _Quakers _, to be married _aooardaxtg Xa the rites Hud _oepfcrooniee tit dhe Church of _JEn _^ _lasd _- _f tbat _' thm was a provision in ho degree neeesmry to prevent minors fr 001 beif _# _martt _^ d ' cland _^ _atiaely _; that it mjgbt _indeed t & nd to produce t _& _at _efffedt _; _& u « ttafc _^ o » i _% hLt five thousand other _measurea _wWch if ; fe _* _p $ f to d _^ fe _^ _^ YoxvX _^ _mWve thought _ftatt these _obvious r € m _« _ftoa ought at aay f _^ te _>
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 4, 1823, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/smrp_04061823/page/4/
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