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    REPORT t OF THE Committee of ti)t Unitarian sr^onattou, TO THE GENERAL MEETING, HELD AT THE LONDON TAVERN, on THURSDAY, the 10th JUNE, 1824.

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    Report T Of The Committee Of Ti)T Unitarian Sr^Onattou, To The General Meeting, Held At The London Tavern, On Thursday, The 10th June, 1824.

    REPORT t OF THE Committee of ti ) t Unitarian sr ^ onattou , TO THE GENERAL MEETING , HELD AT THE LONDON TAVERN , on THURSDAY , the 10 th JUNE , 1824 .

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    THE public press lias already communicated to the members of tins Association the general progress and result of the last year ' s proceedings on the important subject which has occupied so much of the attention of the present as well as former Committees—the application to the Legislature for relief from the existing Marriage Laws . It will be useful , however , to take a short review of previous proceedings ,

    as well as of the occurrences of the past year , in order to enable you to form a judgment of the propriety of the measures pursued , and of the actual progress hitherto made in attracting public attention to tlie subject , and in ascertaining the feeling of Government , of the Church and the Legislature , both as to the merits of the question , and the mode of relief which is most likely to meet the views of all parties .

    At the date of the Report , made to the General Meeting of 1822 , the Committee of that year bad only to congratulate their constituents on the general attention which was beginning to be manifested in and out of Parliament , on the subject of their claims ; they had ascertained that tlie plan originally proposed was not likely to be acceptable , and they were then considering the propriety of adopting another mode of redress , which had been submitted to their consideration , being then , however , arrived at too late a period of the Session for any effectual steps to be taken in that year .

    By the Report made to the General Meeting of last year , ( 1823 , ) it appeared that a new Bill ( on the basis of the one alluded to in 1822 , as then under consideration ) had been adopted , and passed through two of its stages in the House of Commons , at the end of the Session of 1822 , for the purpose of keeping the matter alive , and of printing arid circulating the Bill during the

    recess , with a view to bring it forward at an early period of the Session of 1823 . Meantime , however , those discussions arose , which occupied so much time , on the general regulations of the Marriage Law , and the last Committee were only able to state to you , in their Report , that they had taken the opportunity , which the appointment of a Committee of the House of Lords on the general question gave them , of presenting petitions urging their claims ,

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1824, page unpag, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1715/page/29/