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such children shall be educated; and as enacts that the father of
such children shall pay the charges of such education as shall be
directed by the said Court:

And an Act passed in the eleventh year of the reign of King GEORGE
the Second, intituled, " An Act for securing the Estates of Papists 11 G. 2, c. 17.
conforming to the Protestant Religion against Disabilities created
by several Acts of Parliament relating to Papists; and for
rendering more effectual the several Acts of Parliament made
for vesting in the Two Universities in that Part of Great
Britain called England the Presentation of Benefices belonging
to Papists," except so much of the said Act as relates to any
advowson or right of presentation, collation, nomination, or
donation of or to any benefice, prebend or ecclesiastical living,
school, hospital or donative, or any grant or avoidance
thereof, or any admission, institution or induction to be made
thereupon, but so as that the repeal of the said Act shall not
in anywise affect or prejudice the right, title or interest of any
person in or to any lands, tenements or hereditaments under and
by virtue of the provisions of the said Act at the time of such
repeal :

Also so much of an Act of the Parliament of Ireland passed in the
seventeenth and eighteenth years of the reign of King GEORGE
the Third, intituled, "An Act for the Relief of His Majesty's
Subjects of this Kingdom professing the Popish Religion," as
enacts, "that no maintenance or portion shall be granted to any
child of a Popish parent, upon a bill filed against such parent
pursuant to the aforesaid Act of the second of Queen ANNE,
out of the personal property of such Papist, except out of such
leases which they may hereafter take under the powers granted
in this Act:"

17 & 18 G. 3, (1)

c. 49, s. 5,

s. 5.

Also so much of an Act passed in the eighteenth year of the
reign of the said King GEORGE the Third, intituled, “An Act for 18 G. 3, c. 60,
relieving His Majesty's Subjects professing the Popish Religion
from certain Penalties and Disabilities imposed on them by an
Act made in the eleventh and twelfth Years of the Reign of
King WILLIAM the Third, intituled, An Act for the further
preventing the Growth of Popery,"" as enacts "that nothing in
this Act contained shall extend or be construed to extend to any
Popish Bishop, Priest, Jesuit or Schoolmaster who shall not have
taken and subscribed the above oath in the above words before
he shall have been apprehended, or any prosecution commenced
against him :"

Also so much of an Act of the Parliament of Ireland passed in
the twenty-third and twenty-fourth years of the reign of the
said

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23 & 24 G. 3, c. 38 (1.)

31 G. 3, c. 32.

s. 12.

s. 15.

s. 16.

33 G. 3, c. 21, s. 14 (I.)

said King GEORGE the Third, intituled, "An Act for extend-
ing the Provisions of an Act passed in this Kingdom in the
nineteenth and twentieth Years of His Majesty's Reign, intituled,
'An Act for naturalizing such Foreign Merchants, Traders,
Artificers, Artisans, Manufacturers, Workmen, Seamen, Far-
mers and others, as shall settle in this Kingdom,'" as excepts
out of the benefit of that Act persons professing the Jewish
Religion:

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Also so much of an Act passed in the thirty-first year of the
reign of the said King GEORGE the Third, intituled, "An Act 10
to relieve, upon Conditions and under Restrictions, the Persons
therein described from certain Penalties and Disabilities to which
Papists or Persons professing the Popish Religion are by Law
subject," as enacts "that nothing herein contained shall be con-
strued to give any ease, benefit or advantage to any person who 15
shall, by preaching, teaching or writing, deny or gainsay the
oath of allegiance, abjuration and declaration hereinbefore men-
tioned and appointed to be taken as aforesaid, or the declarations
or doctrines therein contained, or any of them :"

Also so much of the said last-mentioned Act as provides and enacts, 20
"that no schoolmaster professing the Roman Catholic Religion
shall receive into his school for education the child of any Pro-
testant father:"

Also so much of the said last-mentioned Act as provides and enacts,
"that no person professing the Roman Catholic Religion shall be 25
permitted to keep a school for the education of youth until his or
her name and description as a Roman Catholic schoolmaster or
schoolmistress shall have been recorded at the Quarter or General
Session of the Peace for the county or other division or place
where such school shall be situated, by the Clerk of the Peace of the 30
said court, who is hereby required to record such name and
description accordingly upon demand by such person, and to
give a certificate thereof to such person as shall at any time
demand the same, and no person offending in the premises shall
receive any benefit of this Act:"

Also so much of an Act of the Parliament of Ireland passed in the
thirty-third year of the reign of the said King GEORGE the Third,
intituled, "An Act for the Relief of His Majesty's Popish
or Roman Catholic Subjects of Ireland," as provides "that no
Papist or Roman Catholic, or person professing the Roman
Catholic or Popish Religion, shall take any benefit by or under
this Act, unless he shall have first taken and subscribed the Oath
and Declaration in this Act contained and set forth, and also
the said Oath appointed by the said Act passed in the thirteenth

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and fourteenth years of his Majesty's reign, intituled, " An Act
to enable His Majesty's Subjects, of whatever Persuasion, to
testify their Allegiance to him in some one of His Majesty's Four
Courts in Dublin, or at the Gen eral Sessions of the Peace, or at
any Adjournment thereof, to be holden for the County, City or
Borough wherein such Papist or Roman Catholic, or Person
professing the Roman Catholic or Popish Religion, doth inhabit
or dwell, or before the going Judge or Judges of Assize in the
County wherein such Papist or Roman Catholic, or Person pro-
fessing the Roman Catholic or Popish Religion, doth inhabit and
dwell, in open Court:"

Also an Act passed in the said thirty-third year of the reign of the

said King GEORGE the Third, intituled, " An Act for requiring a 33 G. 3, c. 44.
certain Form of Oath of Abjuration and Declaration from His
Majesty's Subjects professing the Roman Catholic Religion in
that Part of Great Britain called Scotland."

And be it Enacted, That from and after the commencement of this Act, Her Majesty's subjects professing the Jewish Religion, in respect to their schools, places for religious worship, education and charitable 20 purposes, and the property held therewith, shall be subject to the same laws as Her Majesty's Protestant subjects dissenting from the Church of England are subject to, and not further or otherwise.

Provided, That nothing in this Act contained shall affect any action or suit actually pending or commenced, or any property now in liti25 gation, discussion or dispute, in any of Her Majesty's Courts of Law or Equity.

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That from and after the commencement of this Act all laws now Disturbing Religious in force against the wilfully and maliciously or contemptuously dis- Assemblies. quieting or disturbing any meeting, assembly or congregation of 30 persons assembled for religious worship, permitted or authorized by any former Act or Acts of Parliament, or the disturbing, molesting or misusing any preacher, teacher or person officiating at such meeting, assembly or congregation, or any person or persons there assembled, shall apply respectively to all meetings, assemblies or congregations 35 whatsoever of persons lawfully assembled for religious worship, and the preachers, teachers or persons officiating at such last-mentioned meetings, assemblies or congregations, and the persons there assembled.

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That this Act may be repealed, altered or varied at any time within Act may be this Session of Parliament.

altered this Session.

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For the further Repeal of Enactments imposing Pains and
Penalties upon Her Majesty's Roman Catholic Subjects
on account of their Religion.

[Note.-The Words printed in Italics are proposed to be inserted
in the Committee.]

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HEREAS by an Act passed in the eighth year of the reign Preamble : of Her present Majesty, intituled, "An Act to repeal cer- 7 & 8 Vict. tain Penal Enactments made against Her Majesty's Roman Catholic Subjects," the several Penal Acts and parts of Penal Acts thereinafter 5 mentioned or specified were, from and after the passing of that Act, repealed:

And whereas, notwithstanding the provisions of the said Act, Her Majesty's Roman Catholic Subjects do still continue to be liable, for or on account of their religious belief or profession, to sundry Pains, 10 Penalties and Disabilities, ordained and enacted by certain Acts, made and passed by the Parliament of England, the Parliament of Great Britain, and the Parliament of Great Britain and Ireland respectively, and to which Punishments, Pains, Penalties and Disabilities none other of Her Majesty's subjects are liable:

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And whereas it is expedient that all such Punishments, Pains and
Penalties as aforesaid shall be for ever repealed and taken away:

And whereas it is likewise expedient that all such and so many of the aforesaid disabilities shall be in like manner repealed and taken away, as do not in anywise relate to the holding of offices Judicial, 20 Civil, Collegiate or Ecclesiastical, or to the presenting to Ecclesiastical Benefices, or as do not in any other manner tend to the better securing and strengthening the present Church Establishment, and the pre

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