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    England as a qualification for office , a Declaration to the following effect should be substituted in lieu thereof ; be it therefore euacted , that every person who shall hereafter be placed , elected or chosen in or to the office of Mayor , Alderman , Recorder , Bailiff , Town Clerk or Common-councilman , or in or to any

    office of magistracy , or place , trust or employment relating to the goverument of any city , corporation , borough or cinque port within England aud Wales , or the town of Berwick upon-Tweed , shall , within one calendar month next before or upon his admission iuto any of the aforesaid offices or trusts , make and subscribe the Declaration following :

    " I , A . B ., do solemnly and sincerely , in the presence of God , profess , testify , and declare , upon the true faith of a Christian , that I will never exercise any power , authority or influence which I may possess by virtue of the office of , to injure or weaken the

    Protestant Church as it is bylaw established in England , or to disturb the said Church , or the Bishops and Clergy uf the said Church , in the possession of any rights or privileges to which such Church , or the said Bishops and Clergy , are or may be by law entitled . "

    And be it enacted , that the said Declaration shall be made and subscribed as aforesaid , in the preseuce of such person or persons respectively who , by the charters or usages of the said respective cities , corporations , boroughs and cinque ports , ought to admiuister the Oath for due execution of the said

    offices or places respectively ; and in default of such , in the presence of two justices of the peace of the said cities , corporations , boroughs , aud cinque ports , if such there be , or oiherwise in the presence of two justices of the peace of th « respective counties , ridings , divisions

    or franchises wherein the said cities , corporations , boroughs and cinque ports are , which said Declaration shall either be entered in a book , roll , or other record , to be kept for that purpose , or shall be filed amongst the records of the city , corporation , borough , or cinque

    port . And be it enacted , that if aoy person placed , elected or chosen into any of the aforesaid offices or places , shall omit or neglect to make and subscribe the said Declaration hi manner above-mentioned , such placing , election or choice , . shall be void y and that it shall not be lawful for such person to do any act in the execution of the office or place into which he shall be so chosen , ejected or placed .

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    And be it further euacted , that every person who shall hereafter be admitted into any office or employment , or who shall accept from his Majesty , his Heirs and Successors , any patent , grant or commission , and who by his admittance into such office or employment or place of trust , or by his acceptance of sucli

    patent , grant or commission , or by the receipt of any pay , salary , fee or wages by reason thereof , would by the laws in force immediately before the passing of this Act have been required to take the Sacrament of the Lord ' s Supper according to the rights or usage of the Church of England , shall within six calendar months after his admission to such

    office , employment or place of trust , or his acceptance of such patent , grant or commission , make and subscribe the aforesaid Declaration , or iu default thereof , his appointment to such office , employment or place of trust , and such patent , grant or commission , shall be wholly void . And be it further enacted , that the aforesaid Declaration shall be made and

    subscribed iu his Majesty ' s High Court of Chancery , or in the Court of King ' s Bench , or at the Quarter Sessions of the county or place where the person so required to make the same shall reside ; and the court in which such Declaration shall be so made and subscribed , shall cause the same to be preserved among the records of the said court : provided

    always , that no naval officer below the rank of Rear Admiral , and no military officer below the rank of Major General in the army , or Colonel in the militia , shall be required to make or subscribe the said Declaration in respect of his naval or military commission ; and that no Commissioner of Customs , Excise , Stamps , or Taxes , or any person holding

    any of the offices concerned in the collection , management ov receipt of the revenues which are subject to the said Commissioners , or any of the officers coucerned in the collection , management or receipt of the revenues subject to the authority of the Post-Master General , shall be required to make or subscribe the said Declaration in respect of their

    said offices or appointments : provided also , that nothing herein continued shall extend to require any naval or military officer , or other person as afpresaid , upon whom any office , place , commission , appointment or promotion shall be conferred during his absence from England , or within three months previous to his departure from thence , to make and subscribe the said Declaration until

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    Intelligent . —Test Repeal Art . ' 509

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1828, page 509, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2562/page/77/