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conve rsation , and has been known to them for the space of before the date of the said certificate , and every person to whom
such last-mentioned certificate shall be granted , who shall cause the same to be recorded at any general session of the peace to be holden as aforesaid , within after the date of the said last
mentioned certificate , in the manner directed by this act , ( proof being first made on the oath of or more credible witness or witnesses of the hand writing of the said
ministers , whose names are subscribed to the said certificate ) shall be and is hereby allowed , without further proofs , to take the said oaths , and to make and subscribe the said several declarations in
the said recited acts mentioned or set forth ; and every such person , after taking the said oaths , and making andsubscribing the said declarations , may from thenceforth , during the period specified
in stich certificate , and not exceeding next ensuing , preach and officiate as such probationer in any Congregation of Dissenting Protestants duly certified and registered , or recorded , according
to law ; and every person so qualifying himself as last aforesaid , shall be and is hereby declared to be during the space of exempted from all and every the penalties , punishments , and
disabilities inflicted by any statute mentioned in the said recited Acts , or either of them , for preaching or officiat ing in any congregation of D issenting Protestants for the exercise of religion permitted and allowed by law , Provided always , and be it en-Wed , that nothing herein con-
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tained shall be construed to authorise or enable any person to qualify more than as such probationer . And be it farther enacted , thai the justices of the peace , to whom any such certificate as aforesaid shall , within the time herein
limited , be tendered at their general session , shall , and they are hereby required , after such proof in verification thereof as is herein directed , to administer the said oaths
and declarations to the person producing such certificate , upon his offering to take aud make and subscribe the same respectively , and thereupon to record the said certificate at the said session , anci
thereof to keep a register : provided always , that any declaration required to be subscribed by tfye said recited Acts , or either of them , shall be subscribed in open court , with the proper Christian and surname and names of the person making such declaration in his own hand-writing , and in the usual manner of hi *
writing , the same in words at length , and not otherwise : provided always , that in the body of every certificate granted by the said officer or officers of the said court to any person as such pro - bationer and not as minister , there shall be expressed the limitation of time for which such certificate
shall be in force by virtue of this Act . And be it further enacted , that every certificate of appointment or
admission of any such minister , or of any person to officiate as such minister , or of any such probationer , pursuant to this Act , sh ^ ll be subscribed with the respective proper names of the several per *
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Toleration Act * 83 S
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1811, page 335, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2417/page/15/
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