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sliaii not proceed la auch marriage : and if any exception shall be inade against the said intended marriage , the register shall also insert the same , with the name of the person making : such exception , and their place of abode , in the Nsaid certificate of publication . rther enactedThat all
«« And it is fu , such persons so intending to be married , shall conic before some justice of peace within and of the same county , city or town corporate , where publication shall be made as aforesaid ; and shall bring ' a certificate of the said publication , and shall make sufficient proof of the consent of their parents or guardians , if either of the
said parries shall be under , the age of one and twenty years : and the said justice shall examine ^ by witnesses upon oath or otherwise , ( as he shall see cause , ) concerning : the truth of the certificate , and dne performance of all the premises 5 and also of any exception made or arising 5 and ( if there appear no reasonable cause to the contrary ) the marriage shall proceed in this manner :
" The man to be married , taking * the woman to be married by the hand , shall plainly aud distinctly pronounce these words : w 'I , A . l £ ., do here in the presence of God , the searcher of all hearts , take thee , C . J > ., for my wedded wife ; and do also , in the presence of God and before these witnesses , promise to be unto thee a loving and faithful husband . *
u And then the woman , taking the man by the hand , shall plainly and distinctly pronounce these words ; " I , C . Z > ., do here in the presence of God , the searcher of all hearts , take thee , A . j& , for my wedded husband 3 and do also , in the presence of God and before these witnesses , promise to be unto thee a loving-, faithful and obedient wife . *
u it is further enacted , That the man and woman having made sufficient proof of the consent of their parents or guardians as aforesaid , and expressed their consent unto marriage , in the manner and hy the words aforesaid , before such justice of peace , in the presence of two or more
credible witnesses 1 the said iustice of credible witnesses ; the said justice of peace may and shall declare the said man and woman to be from thenceforth busband arid wife ; and from and after such consent so expressed , and such declaration made , the same ( as to the "form of inarriag-e ) shall be good and effectual in law .
And no other marriage whatsoever within the Common wealth o ? J $ ngland afjer the twenty-ninth day of September , in the year one thousand six hundred fifty-three , shall be hfeld or accounted a umrrmge accordingto iht few * of £ ngitzntt . But the justice of pea ** , ( before wtiotn * marriage i * sota tmtai ) , ) fa <*** of d * tnb jptitras , m * r
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dispense with pronouncing the words aforesaid ; and with joining hands in case of persons ( that hare no hands . " u that a true and just account may be always kept , as well of publications , as of all sJich marriages , and also of the births of children , and deaths of all sorts of persons within this Commonwealth ; Be
it farther enacted , That a book of grood vellum or parchment shall be provided hf every parish , for the registring of all such marriages , and of all births of children , and burials of all sorts of people within every parish ;¦ for the safe keeping- of which book , the inhabitants , and householders of every parish chargeable to the
relief of the poor , or the greater part of them present , shall , on or before the two and twentieth day of September , in the year one thousand six hundred nTty-threej make choice of some able and honest person ( such as shall be sworn and approved hy one justice of the peace in that parish , division or county , and so signified under
his hand in the said register book ) , to hare the keeping * of the said hook ; who shall therein fairly enter in writing * all such publications , marriages , births of children and burials of all s * nts o-f persons , and the names of every of them , and the days of the month and year of publications , marriages , birth sand burials , and the parents ' ,
guardians' or overseers' names : and the register in such parish shall attend the said justice of peace to subscribe the entry of every such marriage . And the person so elected , approved and sworn , shall be called The Parish Register ^ and sball con - * tinue three years in the said place of register and longer * until some other be
chosen , unless such justice of the peace , or the said parish , with consent of such justice , shall think fit to remove him sooner * And for such publications and certificate thereof , twelve pence and no more may be taken ; and for the entry of every marriagpe , twelve pence and no more ; and for every birth of child * four pence and no
more ; and for every death , four pence and no more ; and for publications , marriages , births or burials of poor people who live upon alms , nothing- shall be taken , And the said justice of peace ( if it be desired ) shall g * ivc unto the parties so married , a certificate in parchment , under his hitnd and seal , of such marriage , and of the daj of the solemni * : ation thereof , and of two
or more of the witnesses then present ; and the justice ' s clerk for this certificate may receive twelve pence and no more . And if such certificate shall be produced to the clerk of the peae * for that county and request made to him to make an em&inr thereof , then the said clerk of the peace is hereby required to enter the same io m . hook of parchment tot * fwomtdted for that purpose , and kept awoagrt ibm records of
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Commonwealth Marriage Act- $ 59
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1819, page 359, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1773/page/15/
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