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    Vmvfak & also , WeM Ite ^ il fibther enacted , that in ease any inaitiage duly solemnized aecorditig to-the provmons of this Act shall in consequence of any accident , n ^ fe ^ trittsdyertiEtoce ^ or wilful default , be presented fcom being registered oh the day on whicli it is solemnized , it shall be lawful for the Court of King ' s Bench , on application of either of the married parties , f or tlieir respective parents or guardians , and tin dtfe prtfof I ' of " tfe * : fects within six calendar months after the so ^ etdnizatio ia ; to o rder the s aid marriage to be registered in the prope * marriage register * in such form as to the said Court shall seem meet . r . r ,

    Provided also , and be tt further enacted , that all marriages which shall have been solemnized and registered according to the provisions of this Act , shall be as valid , binding , and effectual im the lavr , to all intents and purposes , as if they had been solemnized in the pariah church or public chapel of the parish , chapelry , or ecclesiastical district within which the same shall have been registered , and had also been solemnized by a parson , vicar , minister , ot curate of the Church of England , and according to the office of matrimony

    m the Book of Common Prayer , but no further or otherwise : provided also , that after the solemnization of any marriage under the provisions of this Act , it shall not be necessary , in support of such marriage , to give any actual proof of the previous residence of the parties required by this Act , * nor of their or either of their Nonconformity to the Church of England , nor-that

    the place wherein such marriage was solemnized was duly registered for the solemnization under this Act , nor that the same , in any case of a marriage by banns , was situate within ten statute miles of some church or chapel whfefe such banns had been duly published ; nor sh & U any evidence in any of the cases be received to prove the contrary in any suit touching the validity of such marriage . Provided also , and be it further enacted , that nothing in this Act contained shall operate or be construed to alter or affect any of the provisions contained

    in a certain Act passed in this present session of Parliament , intituled An < dct for amending the Laws respecting the Solemnization of Marriqg'e *^ in England , or in any other Act or Acts of Parliament relative to the due publication of Banns , for granting of licences , or for the grant of special fences by the Archbishop of Canterbury and his successors , or for ihe prohibition of suits to compel celebrations of marriage in Facie Ecclesue ,

    further or otherwise than as the before-mentioned provisions , or any oktJxem ,. are expressly or necessarily altered by this Act ; and that * the sameJQj : * the likel forfeitures , pains , and . penalties , shall be incurred in conse < juence of procuring a marriage to be solemnized under this Act , by means-of any false , oath , or other fraud or contrivance , and also in ; relation to making , o ^ iprocuring to be made , or insisting in making , or entering , or publishijjg as true any $ fib ^^^ thereof , w any tflteftd , forged , or counterfeited licence of ^ iip ^ l ^ m

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1823, page 27, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1714/page/67/