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Recital of a clause 9 G. 2. 11. sec. 8.
burthen some,
repeal thereof
This and said act shall be read once a year in churches and chappels by the minister after morning prayers, and at sessions.
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III. And whereas by an act, intituled, An act for the more effectual preventing clandestine marriages, made in the ninth year of his present Majesty’s reign; it is enacted, “That the said act shall be publickly read four times in the year in all parish-churches, and all publick chappels, and other places of publick worship, by the parson, vicar, or curate of the respective parishes or chappels immediately after morning-prayers: (that is to say) upon the Sunday next after the fifth of May in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and thirty six, upon the Sunday next after the fifth day of August, upon the Sunday next after the fifth day of November, and upon the Sunday next after the fifth day of February next ensuing, and upon the same days in every following year, on pain of five pounds for every such omission or neglect; the said penalty to go to such person as shall first sue for the same by bill, plaint, or information, or by civil bill;” which clause hath been found burthensome: be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the said clause in the said act of the ninth of his present Majesty be and is hereby repealed; and that the said act, and this present act, shall be read once in every year from the first day of May, which shall be in the year one thousand seven hundred and forty six, in all parish-churches, and all publick chappels, and other places of publick worship, by the parson, vicar, or curate, of the respective parishes or chappels immediately after morning-prayers, and in open court at every general quarter-sessions of the peace in this kingdom.
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