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A Hill for the Relief of His Majesty ' s Snbjects professing the Jewish Religion . Note —The words printed in Italics are proposed to be inserted in the Committee . Whereas , by the operation of various laws , his Majesty ' s subjects professing
the Jewish religion are subject to certain restraints and disabilities ; and whereas it is expedient that the same should be removed , and the subjects of his Majesty , professing the Jewish religion , be placed in the same state and condition , as to all civil rights and privileges , as his Majesty's Roman Catholic subjects :
May it , therefore , please your Majesty , that it may be enacted , and be it 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 , and by the authority of the same , that , from and after the passing of this Act 9 it shall be lawful for any of his
Majesty's subjects , professing the Jewish religion , to have and enjoy all such and the same civil rights , franchises , and privileges , and to hold , exercise , and possess such and the same offices , places , employments , trusts , and confidence , as the subjects of his- Majesty , professing the Roman Catholic religion-, are now by
law able and competent to have , enjoy , hold , exercise , and possess , and under the same restrictions ; provided always that his Majesty ' s subjects professing the Jewish religion shall , in all cases in which his Majesty ' s Roman Catholic subjects are by law required so to do , take , in the form and manner , and under the modifications herein-after
mentioned , and subscribe the oaths set forth and appointed in aud by an Act passed in the last Session of Parliament , intituled , € i An Act for the Relief of his Majesty ' s Roman Catholic Subjects , " and make and subscribe the declaration
prescribed by an Act passed in the ninth year of his present Majesty ' s reign , intituled , "An Act for repealing so imich of several Acts as impose the necessity of receiving the Sacrament of the Lord ' s Supper as a qualification for certain , offices and employments . "
Provided always , and be it further euacted , that when any of his Majesty ' s subjects professing the Jewish religion shall take the said oaths or subscribe the said declaration , the words " on the true faith of a Christian" shall be omitted . And be it further enacted , by the authority aforesaid , that whenever any of
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his Majesty ' s snbjects professing the Jewish religion , shall , at any time or times hereafter , present himself * or be required to take the said oaths , appointed and set forth in and by the said Act ,
passed in the said last Session of Parliament , or any other oath or oaths , all the said oaths shall be administered to , and taken by , such persons professing the Jewish religion , in like manner as Jews are admitted to be sworn to give evidence in Courts of Justice ; and the same shall be deemed a sufficient aud lawful taking of such oaths on all
occasions whatsoever . And be it further enacted , that from and after the passing of this Act , his Majesty ' s subjects professing the Jewish religion shall be and become subject and liable to such and the same incapacities , disabilities , or penalties , as his Majesty ' s
subjects professiug the Roman Catholic religiou now are subject and liable to by law , and to none other incapacities , disabilities , or penalties whatsoever ; and that the oath herein-before referred to , being taken in manner aforesaid , and subscribed by any person professing the Jewish religion , shall be of the same force and effect , for the relief and
exemption of the person taking aud subscribing the same , from any disabilities , incapacities , or penalties whatsoever , as the same oath would be for the relief and exemption of a person professing the Roman Catholic religion , if taken and subscribed by such person in the manner directed by the said Act of the last Session of Parliament ; and that the
oath , hereby authorized to be taken by persons professing the Jewish religion , shall be administred , recorded , and certified by the same persons , and in the same manner respectively , as by the last-mentioned Act the oaths thereby authorized to be taken by persons professing the Roman Catholic religion are directed to be administered , recorded , and certified .
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Intelligence . —Notices . 359
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NOTICES . Unitarian Ass&eiation Meeting * . Tub Members and Friends of the British and Foreign Uuitarian Association will meet , aa usual , ou the Wednesday in Whitsun week , ( June 2 , ) at the Chapel in South Place , Finsbury . The Rev . J . J . Tayler , of Manchester , will preach on the occasion . And a second General Meeting of the Association will beheld at Cross Street Chapel , Man-
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1830, page 359, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2584/page/71/
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