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after the registering of such / place of worship as a place for the solemnization of Marriage ? Reall y * Sir , in the total absence of any good , there appears , I think , this certain evil in this provision ^ that though Dissenting places of worship may be newly registered
for the solemnization of Marriage as goon as possible after the Act has passed into a law , yet the Act cannot be available to an ^ y one till at least 12 months hare expired after its enactment , and as much more as such Dissenting places of worship shall be delayed to be newly registered . I confess I cannot see any good in this
procrastination . Thirdly . In the case of obtaining a licence , the registered place of worship vvfcere the ceremony is intended to be performed , is required to be set out in the petition for such licence . Will it not be incumbent upon the ordinary , or at least discretionary in him , to
require evidence that such place has been duly registered , not only as a place of worship , but also for the solemnization of Marriage , and that 12 months have then elapsed since such last-mentioned registration , ere he grant the licence for the performance of the ce * - reniony in such place of worship ?
Fourthly . The married pair are empowered to produce to the parish priest the certificate of registration Of the place of worship at which the solemnization took place , when in fact ( such certificate belonging solely to
the occupant -of such place of worship ) they cannot have the legal power of doing so , otherwise than by obtaining an official extract of such register , which would be attended with expense and trouble , the necessity of which I really think does not appear .
Fifthly . As in the case of banns they are required to be published in Uie parish church , and a declaration in writing delivered to the parish priest , that the parties , or one of them ,
« re or is a Dissenter , and desirous of being married under the provisions of t j » s proposed Act , and therefore a cev-r Jificate of the due publication of such banns is requited to be obtained from udi
p parish priest , and produced to the person performing the ceremony , with a penalty upon him for perform- * * ug it without having such certificate Urst produced to him ; and so in the c pf a licence , as the dissent of the
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panics or one of them ( ram tl * e E # ty Wished Chweh is required to bo declared ia the petition for sttch , licence , and the place named where U is wished
to be performed , and ajsp the usual bond with surety to be given ;*^ vvhew is the necessity for the married pair to make their personal appearance before the parish priest in order again to declare their dissent from the
Established Church , and to be examined and cross-examined by tim at discretion , ( for such the proposed Act ap-r pears to allow , ) as to their ; being of mature age , having the consent of parents , &c . ? Why would npt a certificate from the person performing
the ceremony , of the due performance thereof , be quite sufficient to enable the parish priest to register tlie same i or otherwise the two witnesses pre sent at the performance of such oprer mony may personally attend the registration thereof , and attest the same
in the Pansh Register Book as usual > I am aware that it may be replied * , that the parties themselves BhoukI sign their names to the Register a $ they now usually do : but this I submit may very well be dispensed wjth - y for if marriage registers be $ & wel £ attested as those of baptisms and burials , ( in neither of which cases does
any signature of the book tajke pla ^ e *) it will he very sufficient , and the papties may always send a co # fidei } tial friend to see that it be proporjy regUrtered , or may have an immediate certificate thereof ; an < J ip addition , to
which , an auxiliary evidence will doubtless be supplied by the entry , which of course will be kept at every Dissenting Meeting-house ; pot that I would rely upon , tfye latter alone . In reply to your correspondent J , B ., p . 410 , it appears to me thq , {; Jie
labours under aii extremely confused notion of the nature and operatipu of Trust Deeds of Dissenting Meetinghouse&j and although he seems sati ^ fied with his " endeavour to place the subject ia a clear point of vie w *; ' I really cannot understand wh&tfa& ^ igguf
at or means to express , I g * M , ueF however , from the wh ^ ple * tljaj ; fa $ en ~ tertains , the mistaken notions tlia * Trustees have the spU powe * of appointing or removing tW Minister * aud a controlling p o * v ^ r pver the Meet ~ ingrlLQuse , and , of which be supposes them to be the real and ostensible oc ^
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Unitarian & £ &rfagtr BUl onrf LHssenting Trusts . 6 £ 7
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1822, page 527, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2516/page/7/
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