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    the said sessions , and to restore the said certificate ; for which entry the clerk of the peace may receive four pence and no more .

    u And be it further enacted , That if any person , by violence or fraud , shall steal and take away , or cause to be stolen or taken away , any person whatsoever , under the age of one and twenty years , with intent to marry the sajd person in this Commonwealth , or in any other place , such person and persons so stealing and taking

    away , or causing to be stolen and taken away , shall forfeit his and their whole estate real and personal , one half thereof to ' the Commonwealth , and the other half to the use of the party so taken away , to be recovered by any suit on behalf of the Commonwealth \ or by any action in a court of record , brought by their parent ,

    guardian or overseer , and shall farther suffer strict and close imprisonment , and be kept to hard labour in some house of correction or other public working-house during life ; and every person that shall be convicted upon indictment , presentment , or by any due course of law , for aiding or

    abetting any such violence or fraud , shall be imprisoned , and kept at hard labour ( as aforesaid ) during the space of seven whole years next after such conviction ; and any pretended marriage , that at any time hereafter shall be obtained by any such violence or fraud , is hereby declared null and void .

    u And it is further enacted , That where any guardian or overseer shall betray any trust touching any child , by seducing , selling or otherwise wilfully putting such childinto the hands or power of any person who shall marry such child , without his or her free consent , such guardian or

    overseer shall forfeit double the portion which of right did belong to such child , one moiety thereof to go to the Commonwealth , and the other to the child so married as aforesaid , to be recovered by any action , bill , plaint or suit , in any court of record , by the party wronged , or any Qther person on bis or her behalf .

    u And it is hereby declared and enacted , That from and after the nine and twentieth day of September , one thousand six hundred fifty and three , the age for a man to consent unto marriage shall be sixteen years , and the age of a woman fourteen , years , and not before ; and any contract or marriage had or made before the respective ages aforesaid , shall be void and of none effect .

    < c And it is further enacted , That the hearing' and determining of all matters and controversies touching contracts and marriages , and the lawfulness and unlawfulness thereof ; and all exceptions against contracts and marriages , and the distribution of forfeitures within this act , shall

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    be in the power , and referred to the deter , mi nation of the justices of peace in each county , city or town corporate , at the general quarter sessions ; or of such other persons to hear and determine the same , as the Parliament shall hereafter appoint .

    " And be it further enacted , That all and every offence and offences , at any time or times hereafter , committed or done upon or beyond the sea , contrary to the tenor and true intent and meaning of this act , shall and may be tried in any city , town corporate , or county where the person or persons so offending shall be apprehended or attached for the offence or of

    fences aforesaid . " And it is also enacted , That where there are small parishes , or places not within any parish , or no usual morning exercise on the Lord ' s days in the aforesaid meeting-place , the justices of peace .

    at their general sessions , or any three or more of them , may unite two or more such parishes , or such places to other parishes * ( at their discretions ) which shall be accounted one parish , as to the matters only within this act ; and one register to serve for such parishes and places so united .

    " And be it enacted , That all and every the persons in this act mentioned , may and shall , in their several places , by virtue hereof , put in execution all and every the powers and authorities respectively to them limited by this act , any law , statute .

    custom or usage to the contrary notwithstanding . And all register books for marriages , births and burials already past , shall be delivered is to the hands of the respective registers appointed by this act , to be kept as records .

    " And it is lastly enacted by this present Parliament , and the authority thereof , That this present act shall be in force in Ireland ' , from and after the first day of December , which shall be in the year of our Lord one thousand six hundred fifty and three /'

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    S 6 o Form of' Q , uaker * Marriage $ .

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    Sir , London , May 5 , 1810 . AT this time , when a large proportion of the Unitarians in this nation are petitioning their legislators for an alteration in the Marriage Law ,

    ( so far as concerns themselves as a Dissenting body , ) T presume many of their active minds will be employed in considering % what form or ceremony will be best adapted to their peculiar situation and circumstances .

    The form adopted by that respectable religious Society called Quakers , appears to me to be at once effective , and consistent with Christian simplicity and Unitarian principles ,: on this account I have felt desirous of

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1819, page 360, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1773/page/16/