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That this Act may be repealed, altered or varied at any time within Act may be this Session of Parliament.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