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thte obsei'v&hce of every one of the forms now required , as well as for the maintenance of the fees land emoluments of the Church , and merely allowed the religious iserdee on the occasion to be performed by the parties according to their own tnode , and in their acctistotned places , registered fat the purpose , under clearly defined regulations and
restrictions . *< Tfrat the exaufit letter of the precedent in the Marriage Act of 1 ^ 53 , ( of merely exentptfag jews aivd Quakers from its oper&tion , } was not followed in this Bill ; first , because the interests of the whole cbtnnitinity , and the avowed policy of the law , plainly require the checks and regulations tvhMi it ifttpOses to be of general obligation , though in the case of parties , so distinctly tniuked &s the Jews and
Qtrakers , -a relaxation in their favour could be grant ed Without danger : secondly , because tfie " Unitarians sought to wtthdratv thfemselves from no sort of civil restraint or inconvenience ^ but w £ re willing even to undert&ke additional
responsibility and trouble iind expense : and , thirdly , because fa / was avowedly expected of thein that nothing should be sought to he altered which was not necessarily required by the concession to their religious scruples .
" That registration in the cotnnioii Parochial Register was proposed to be preserved , ' ( ill the absence of any other authorized and established register duly preserved , ) because there would thus be a service to be performed , in respect of which the Church minister might receive his afcctrstotfied tees ; because the
continuance of one general register , in which marriages are numbered consecutively , was considered to he Of great value , not riierely to Unitarians , but to the whole cotnmuntty ; and lastly , " because it was conceived that SUch a duty ( performed &s it is now , tinder the requirements of the law , &s a matter of civil , not
ecclesiastical policy ) could not be objected to as derogatory to the dignity of the Church , on any grounds which would not apply with far greater force to the obligation « ov ( r imposed upon that Church , of receiving into its religious ordinances * for a merely civil object , parties who openly renounce its discipline and doctrines .
u Hiat this Meethig instructs its Committee " to jpefsevere in their applications Tntttt the justice of their claims " be ' fully * fec 6 gnteed , and the grievance be completely , removed , in a firm reliance on
the j ustice of the Legislature for tlie admission of elaiiims so obviously just , and fan its wisdom fbr devising a mode of relief , which shall combine a due regard for tfcte rights of conscience with that attention to the civil interests ojf the commu-
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trity , whidi tiotie are ntpre teady than the Unitarians fully t 6 recognize afld ad'init , atid so far as in them ites conscienrib-usly to uphold . " On the subject of the r J " est and Corporation Acts the following Resolution was passed :
* That the Cbniinitfcee be requested to turn their alteration , previous to xhe commencement of next Session , to the consideration of the best means of forming 60 ' me Association of persons desirous of
taking active measures for promoting the repeal of the Test and Corporation Acts ; and that they fee authorized to render , on the patt of this Society , every facility and co-aperation \ n ttifclr power for the attaintnetft of that object /' alis
A ReSoTut ^ on was o passed , einpowfering theCamtnittee t ^ appo ' mt a deputation to meet the -Committee Of the Unitarian Fund , to consider the propriety an * d practicability of forining a General tJnitarian Association , embracing the various objects now divided among several Societies .
A good deal of dircfa ^ sion took place on the subject of the finances of the Society , and it appeared to 'all desirable that the very important proceedings now before the Society should not be crippled for want 6 f funds . It was particlilarly observed , that a stn&Jl annual subscription only had been fixed as the
aaalification of congregiatiotis contieeted with the Society , under the Conviction and understanding that whenever the objects contemplated called for larger resources , tfaete \ vould be Too diflBculty in Obtaining all inctefase in their contributions proportionable to the call .
The tollowmg additional donations were received on the spot froln gentlemen in the toblti : G . M . DavidsOHi , Esq . . ^ 10 0 0 Thomas Gibsoa , Esq . * . 5 0 0 James Yowng , Esq . ,.. 500 A Fdend , by the Rev . < R « ssell Scott . » * . u w . 15 G 0
Edward Tay lor * Esq . . . . 100 Thomas Womby * Esq . .. 100 Samuel Parkes , Esq . >• .. . I 0 O G . Richmond , Esq . . , . . 1 0 0 Jchti Watson ^ Esq . . . . 1 1 0 Thonass ^ Foster , Esq - . * 1 0 0 Peter Kensett , Esq . ... 1 00 Joseph O ^ ernie , Esq . ... 1 0 O R . ( iaisford , Esq . * . . w 1 0 0 SubtfCrlptiohs are receded by the Trea-Sixter , J . Ybung , Esq ., 1 * 6 , Change Mley ; the Sfebretai ^ , Mr . E . JTaylor , Temple ; afitd the ^ Collector , Mr . Totnalyn , 13 , Sise Lane , Buclrlel ^ birry .
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868 ffttetiigeiic % . ( s t ? nit ? rian Assoctotion *
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1824, page 368, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2525/page/48/
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