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ARRANGEMENT OF CLAUSES.

Preamble recites

That a new Church, intended for the Parish Church of Upton cum Chalvey, has been erected and consecrated:

That divers Marriages have been solemnized therein :

That Doubts are entertained respecting the Validity of such
Marriages.

Marriages so solemnized in the said Church declared to be valid;
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The Ministers who have solemnized such Marriages not to be liable to Ecclesiastical Censure, or to any Penalties, &c.; 2.

Registers of such Marriages to be received in Evidence; 3.

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BILL

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An Act to render valid certain Marriages solemnized in the new Church at Upton cum Chalvey in the County of Buckingham and Diocese of Oxford.

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Church had

HEREAS a new Church intended as and for the Parish Preamble. Church of the Parish of Upton cum Chalvey in the County That a new of Buckingham and Diocese of Oxford was erected and been built in built some Time in or about the Year One thousand eight hundred the Parish of Upton cum 5 and thirty-seven, and was duly consecrated for the Performance of Chalvey, in

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the Divine Service therein: And whereas before the Period at which tended for the Parish the said new Church was legally constituted the Parish Church Church. divers Marriages have been solemnized in the said new Church by That divers the Vicar or officiating Minister for the Time being of the Parish of Marriages 10 Upton cum Chalvey, and by other Clergymen, under the erroneous solemnized Opinion that according to the Terms of the Sentence of Consecra- therein. tion of the said new Church or otherwise Marriages might be lawfully solemnized therein, and Entries of the several Marriages so solemnized as aforesaid have been from Time to Time made in the Register 15 Book of the said Parish, in compliance with the Provisions of the

Act of Parliament respecting the Registry of Marriages: And whereas That it is Doubts are entertained whether such Marriages so as aforesaid expedient solemnized Doubts

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to remove

riages.

touching the solemnized in such Church before the same was legally constituted Validity of the Parish Church are strictly legal, and it is expedient to remove said Marsuch Doubts: Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, 5 and by the Authority of the same, That all Marriages so as aforesaid solemnized in the said new Church of Upton cum Chalvey shall be as good and valid in the Law to all Intents and Purposes whatsoever as if the same had been solemnized in the Parish Church of Upton cum Chalvey aforesaid.

Marriages, &c. already solemnized

in the said new Church

declared to be valid.

Ministers

such Mar

II. And be it enacted, That the Minister or Ministers who solemsolemnizing nized such Marriages respectively as aforesaid shall not be liable to any Ecclesiastical Censures, or to any other Proceedings or Penalties whatsoever, by reason of his or their having so as aforesaid solemnized the same respectively.

riages, &c. not to be liable to Penalties.

Registers to

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III. And be it enacted, That the Registers of the Marriages so be Evidence. solemnized as aforesaid, or Copies of such Registers, shall be received in all Courts of Law and Equity as Evidence of such Marriages respectively, in the same Manner as the same would have been receivable in Evidence in case the said Marriages respectively had 20 been solemnized in the Parish Church of Upton cum Chalvey aforesaid.

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