Dissenters qualifying allowed to for relief of such persons as by sickness, or other impediment, were disabled from subscribing the declaration in the act of uniformity, and explanation of part of the said act; for preaching or officiating in any congregation of Protestant dissenters, for the exercise of religion permitted and allowed by law. II. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that no themselves dissenting minister, nor any other Protestant dissenting from the as aforesaid, church of England, who shall take the aforesaid oaths, and make instruct and subscribe the above mentioned declaration against popery, and the declaration herein before mentioned, shall be prosecuted in any court whatsoever, for teaching and instructing youth as a tutor or schoolmaster; any law or statute to the contrary notwithstanding. youth. No dissenter to hold the mastership of any college or school III. Provided always, that nothing in this act contained shall extend, or be construed to extend, to the enabling of any person dissenting from the church of England to obtain or hold the masterof royal foun- ship of any college or school of royal foundation, or of any other dation, &c. endowed college or school for the education of youth, unless the same shall have been founded since the first year of the reign of their late majesties king William and queen Mary, for the immediate use and benefit of Protestant dissenters. The said act and this act, public acts. IV. And whereas it hath been doubted, whether the said act, 1 Gul. & Mar. made in the first year of the reign of king William and queen Mary, to be deemed be a public or private act; be it enacted and declared, that the said act, and also this present act, shall be adjudged, deemed, and taken to be public acts; and shall be judicially taken notice of as such. by all judges, justices, and other persons whomsoever, without specially pleading them, or either of them. 25 GEORGE 3, CAP. 75.-An act to extend the provisions of an act, made in the twenty-third year of his present majesty's reign, for granting to his majesty a stamp duty on the registry of burials, marriages, births, and christenings, to the registry of burials, births, and christenings of Protestant dissenters from the church of England.—Whereas 23 G. 3, c. 67. by an act, made in the twenty-third year of the reign of his present majesty (intituled, an act for granting to his majesty a stamp duty on the registry of burials, marriages, births, and christenings), a stamp duty of three-pence was imposed on the entry of any burial, marriage, birth, or christening, in the register of any parish, precinct, or place in Great Britain: and whereas it is expedient to extend the provisions of the said act to all his majesty's Protestant subjects dissenting from the church of England; be it therefore 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 first day of October one thousand seven hundred and eighty-five, the provisions of the said act, made in the twentythird year of the reign of his present majesty, shall extend to all his majesty's Protestant subjects dissenting from the church of England: and that the registers of births, burials, and christenings of such of them as use infant baptism, now kept, or hereafter to be kept by them; and the registers of births and burials of such Protestant dissenters as do not use infant baptism, now kept, or hereafter t be kept by them, shall be subject and liable to the stamp duties by Actextended to Protestant dissenters. the said recited act imposed upon the registers of births, burials, and christenings; any thing therein, or in any other law contained to the contrary notwithstanding. 53 GEORGE 3, CAP. 160.-An act to relieve persons who impugn the doctrine of the Holy Trinity from certain penalties.-Whereas, in the nineteenth year of his present majesty an act was passed, inti- 19 G. 3, c. 44. tuled an act for the further relief of Protestant aissenting ministers and schoolmasters; and it is expedient to enact as hereinafter provided; be it therefore 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 so much of an act passed in the first year of 1 W. & M. the reign of king Willian and queen Mary, intituled an act for s.17, repealed exempting his majesty's Protestant subjects dissenting from the church of England, from the penalties of certain laws, as provides that that act or any thing therein contained should not extend or be construed to extend to give any ease, benefit or advantage to persons denying the Trinity as therein mentioned, be and the same is hereby repealed. sess. 1, c. 18, c. 32, in part II. And be it further enacted, that the provisions of another act 9 & 10 W. 3, passed in the ninth and tenth years of the reign of king William, repealed. intituled an act for the more effectual suppressing blasphemy and profaneness, so far as the same relate to persons denying as therein mentioned, respecting the Holy Trinity, be and the same are hereby repealed. in Scotland III. And whereas it is expedient to repeal an act, passed in the Acts passed parliament of Scotland in the first parliament of king Charles the against second, intituled an act against the crime of blasphemy; and another blasphemy repealed. act, passed in the parliament of Scotland in the first parliament of king William, intituled an act against blasphemy; which acts respectively ordain the punishment of death; be it therefore enacted, that the said acts and each of them shall be, and the same are and is hereby repealed. IV. And be it further enacted, that this act shall be deemed and Public act. taken to be a public act, and shall be judicially taken notice of as such by all judges, justices and others, without being specially pleaded. 4 GEORGE 4, CAP. 64, SEC. 31.-An act for consolidating and amending the laws relating to the building, repairing and regulating of certain gaols and houses of correction in England and Wales. ministers al XXXI. Be it further enacted, that if any prisoner shall be of a Dissenting religious persuasion differing from that of the established church, a lowed to visit minister of such persuasion, at the special request of such prisoner, prisoners. shall be allowed to visit him or her at proper and reasonable times, under such restrictions imposed by the visiting justices as shall guard against the introduction of improper persons, and as shall prevent improper communications. 7 & 8 VICTORIA, CAP. 102.-An act to repeal certain penal enactments made against her majesty's Roman catholic subjects.-See TitleUNIFORMITY OF SERVICE." Nn 2 DISSENTERS, IRELAND. 57 GEORGE 3, CAP. 70.-An act to relieve persons impugning the doctrine of the Holy Trinity from certain penalties, in Ireland.— Whereas an act was passed in the nineteenth year of the reign of 19 G. 3, c. 44. his present majesty, by the parliament of Great Britain, intituled an act for the further relief of Protestant dissenting ministers and schoolmasters, and the provisions of the said act have not been enacted or made law in Ireland: and whereas it has been and may be reasonably doubted, whether the provisions of an act passed in the fifty-third year of the reign of his present majesty by the parlia- 53 G. 3, c. 160. ment of the united kingdom, intituled an act to relieve persons who impugn the doctrine of the Holy Trinity, from certain penalties, do extend to or were intended to affect Ireland; and it is meet and proper that equal freedom of religious worship should be secured by law to every part of the united kingdom: 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 such of the 6 G. 1. (I.) provisions of an act passed by the parliament of Ireland, in the sixth the above year of his late majesty king George the first, intituled an act for recited acts exempting the Protestant dissenters of this kingdom from certain penal- Ireland. ties to which they are now subject, as purport to affect by penalties or disqualifications any person who by his preaching or writing shall deny the doctrine of the Blessed Trinity, be and the same are hereby absolutely annulled, repealed and made void; and that all and every of the provisions contained in each of the two before mentioned acts of the nineteenth and fifty-third years of his majesty shall be henceforth deemed and taken to be of full force and effect in that part of the united kingdom called Ireland, in like manner as if the same and every part of each of the said acts had been hereby and in terms fully set forth and re-enacted. repealed, and extended to SPACE LEFT, FOR REFERENCE, IF NECESSARY, TO ACTS OF PARLIAMENT PASSED SUBSEQUENT TO A. 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