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TOLERATION ACT. LORD SIDMOUTH ' S BILL.
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An Act to explain end render more effectual certain Acts of the First Y < ar of the Reign of King William and Queen Mary , and of the Nineteenth Year of the Reign of His present Majesty , so far as the same relate to Protestant Dissenting Mi ~ visters . Whereas by nn 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 cerlain Laws / ' persons dissenting from the Church of England in holy orders , or prerended holy orders , or pretending to holy oiders , and preachers or teachers of any
congregation of Dissenting Protestants , in order to tlieir being entitlrd to certain exemptions , bejiefiis , privileges , and advantage- by the said Act granted , are required to declare their approbation of and to subscribe to certain
articles of religion : and whereas by another Act , made in the nineteenth year of the reign of His present Majesty , intituled "An Act for the further Relief of Protestant
Dissenting Ministers and Schoolmasters , " it is enacted , that every person dissenting from the Church of England in holy orders , or pretended holy orders , or pretending to holy orders , being a preacher or teacher of any congregation of Dissenting Protestants , if he shall scruple to * declare and subscribe
as required by the said first recited Act , may make and subscribe the declaration in the said last re-
Toleration Act. Lord Sidmouth ' S Bill.
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cited Act set forth , in order to his being entitled to the exemptions , benefits , privileges , and advantages , granted by the said first recited Act , and to certain other exemptions , benefit * , privileges , and advantages , granted by the said last recited Act : and whereas doubts have arisen as to the description of persons to whom the said recited provisions were intended to apply , and it is expedient to remove the s ^ id doubts ; may it therefore please your Majesty that it niay be declared and enacted , and be it declared and 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 Parliament assembled , by the authority of the same , that
every person being a Protestant dissenting from the Church of England in holy orders or pretended holy orders , or pretending to holy orders , who shall be appointed or admitted to be the minister of any
separate congregation <> i Dissenting Protestants , duly certified and recorded or registered according «> Jaw , shall be , and is hereby declared to be a person entitled to qualify himself to be a dissenting minister , within the intent and meaning of the said recited provisions ot the said Acts ; and that no cAhct than such person as afonsaid isso entitled within the intent and meaning of the same . And be it further enacted , that from and after the passing ^ Act , upon the ap pointment ot anj person , beini ^ a Protestant dissening from the Church of Englan *
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1811, page 332, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2417/page/12/
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