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    An Act For Granting Relief To His Majest...

    _Prai _& _teet also , _* d < f _^* il ' solemnized according to-the _provmons of this Act & ballin consequence off any _abd _^ _SV n _^& trtm & yeti _&^ or _VrUftt / defi _^ i _^ l _^ being _registered oh the day on which it is solemnized , it shall be lawful for the Court of King ' s Bench , on application of either of the married parties _, f or their respective parents or guardians , and *> n dt ( e _prcmf of _tfefc : facts within six calendar months after the sol _# mmzatioia ; to order the said marriage to be _registered in the proper marriage register ,, in su £ h form as to the said Court shall sei » m -meat - r . . . ., _-,:- _* further enacted , that in : _&&&& any _tnartfege 4 _aly

    Provided also , and be have been solemnized and shall be as valid , binding , and effectual hi the _lavr , to all intents and purposes , as if they _Jiad been solemftized in the pariah church or public chapel of the parish , chapelry , or ecclesiastical district within which the same shall have been registered , and had also been solemnized by a parson , vicar , minister , or curate of the Church of England , and according to the office of matrimony it further enacted , that all marriages whieU shall registered according to the provisions of this Act , and effectual in the law * , to all intents and purposes ,

    in the Book of Common Prayer , but no further or otherwise : provided also , that after the solemnization of any marriage under the provisions of this Act , it shall not be necessary , in support of such marriage , to give any actual proof of the previous residence of the parties required by this Act , * nor of their or either of their Nonconformity to the Church of England , nor- that

    the place wherein such marriage was solemnized was duly _registered for the solemnization under this Act , nor that the same , in any case of a marriage by banns , was situate within ten statute miles of some church or chapel whfefe such banns had been duly published ; nor _shkli any evidence in any of the cases be received to prove the contrary in any suit touching the validity of such marriage . Provided also , and be it further _enacted , that nothing in this Act contained shall operate or be construed to alter or affect any of the provisions contained

    in a certain Act passed _

    farther or otherwise than as the before-mentioned provisions , or any ot tlvem are expressly or necessarily altered by this Act ; and that the same or . the _likd forfeitures , pains , and . penalties , shall be incurred in consequence of procuring a marriage to be _solemnized under this Act , by mean * of any false oath , or other fraud or contrivance , and also in relation to making , o _^ _iprocuring to be made , or assisting in making , or entering , or _publishing as true any _ffrtse r , _^ _qt _& 9 v $ _&^^ thereof , w any _alteredforged , or counterfeited licence of _mw _^ _jg _^ i _^

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 12, 1823, page 27, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/smrp_12061823/page/27/