and effectual settlement of this kingdom, unless he shall have taken, made, and subscribed, the oaths and declaration, and performed the several requisites which by any law heretofore made, and now of force, are required to enable any person to sit or vote, or to hold, exercise, and enjoy the said offices respectively. by papists to any ecclesias presentation 10. Provided also, and be it enacted, that No right of nothing in this act contained shall enable any papist, or person professing the popish or Roman catholic religion, to exercise any right of presentation to any ecclesiastical benefice whatso ever. tical benefice. on papists for in parish § 11. And be it enacted, that no papist, or No penalty person professing the popish or Roman catho- not attending lic religion, shall, be liable to, or subject to divine service any penalty for not attending divine service church. on the Sabbath-day, called Sunday, in his or her parish church. not to cele between pro sons professing 12. Provided also, and be it enacted, that Popish priest nothing herein contained shall be construed to brate marriage extend to authorize any popish priest, or re- testants; nor puted popish priest, to celebrate marriage be- between pertween protestant and protestant, or between himself or her any person who hath been, or professed himself self a protestant, within or herself to be a protestant, at any time within twelve months twelve months before such celebration of mar- before celebrariage, and a papist, unless such protestant and papules papist shall have been first married by a clergy- first married man of the protestant religion; and that every clergyman, popish priest, or reputed popish priest, who shall celebrate any marriage between two protestants, or between any such protestant and papist, unless such protestant and papist shall have been first married by a clergyman of the protestant P papist unless by protestant 21. Irish. 33 Geo. 5. c. religion, shall forfeit the sum of five hundred pounds to his majesty, upon conviction there penalty 5001. of. After 1st June, except those of cessary, on § 13. And whereas it may be expedient, in 1793, no oaths case his majesty, his heirs and successors, shall allegiance and be pleased so to alter the statutes of the college abjuration ne- of the holy and undivided Trinity near Dublin, taking degrees and of the university of Dublin, as to enable in Trinity colLege, Dublin. persons professing the Roman catholic religion to enter into, or to take degrees in the said university, to remove any obstacle which now exists by statute law, be it enacted, that from and after the first day of June, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-three, it shall not be necessary for any person upon taking any of the degrees usually conferred by the said university, to make or subscribe any declaration, or to take any oath save the oaths of allegiance and abjuration, any law or statute to the contrary notwithstanding. No benefit under this act, and declara tion be made and subscrib §14. Provided always, that no papist or Rounless the oath man 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 (a) appointed by the said act ed, and also the oath ap pointed by 13 & 14 Geo. 3. c. 35. as herein. passed in the thirteenth and fourteenth years 33 Geo. 3. c. of his majesty's reign, intitled, "An act to 66 66 46 treasons and traiterous con"spiracies which may be "formed against him or them; " and I do faithfully promise "to maintain, support, and defend, to the utmost of my 66 power, the succession of the "crown in his majesty's fa"mily, against any person or persons whatsoever; here"by utterly renouncing and 66 abjuring any obedience or allegiance unto the person taking upon himself the stile and title of prince of Wales, "in the life-time of his father, "and who, since his death, is 44 I said to have assumed the "stile and title of king of "Great Britain and Ireland, 66 by the name of Charles the "third, and to any other per"son claiming or pretending 66 a right to the crown of these "realms; and I do swear "that I do reject and detest "as unchristian and impious "to believe, that it is lawful "to murder or destroy any 46 person or persons whatso66 ever, for or under pretence "of their being hereticks; "and also that unchristian "and impious principle, that "no faith is to be kept with "hereticks: I further declare, "that it is no article of my "faith, and that I do re"nounce, reject, and abjure "the opinion that princes ex"communicated by the pope "and council, or by any au 21. Irish. 33 Geo. 3. c. 21. Irish. Names to be inserted on rolls; (See 37 Geo. 3. c. 47. § 19.) Rolls to be transmitted to rolls office: Masters of rolls, &c. to give certifi cates as herein. (No form of certificate is given here, but see a certificate of taking oaths at English elec tions. Ante, xxxiv.) "enable his majesty's subjects, of whatsoever persuasion, to testify their allegiance to "him," in some one of his majesty's four courts in Dublin, or at the general 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 professing the Roman catholic or popish religion, doth inhabit and dwell, in open court. § 15. Provided always, and be it enacted, that the names of such persons as shall so take and subscribe the said oaths and declaration, with their titles and additions, shall be entered upon the rolls, for that purpose to be appointed by said respective courts; and that the said rolls, once in every year, shall be transmitted to, and deposited in, the rolls office in this kingdom, to remain amongst the records thereof; and the masters or keepers of the rolls in this kingdom, or their lawful deputy or deputies, are hereby empowered and required to give and deliver to such person or persons so taking and subscribing the said oaths and declaration, a certificate or certificates of such person or persons having taken and subscribed the said oaths and declaration, for each of which certificates the sum of one shilling and no more shall be paid. 21. Irish. &c. being a lic, capable of member to parlia has produced officer. § 16. And be it further provided and enacted, 33 Geo. 3. c. that from and after the first day of April, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-three, no From 1st April, freeholder, burgess, freeman, or inhabitant of no freeholder, this kingdom, being a papist or Roman catholic, Roman cathoor person professing the Roman catholic or po- giving his vote pish religion, shall at any time be capable of for electing a giving his vote for the electing of any knight serve in par or knights, of any shire or county within this ment, until he kingdom, or citizen or burgess, to serve in any certificate to parliament, until he shall have first produced returning and shewn to the high sheriff of the said county, or his deputy or deputies, at any election of a knight or knights of the said shire, and to the respective chief officer or officers of any city, borough, or town corporate, to whom the return of any citizen or burgess to serve in parliament doth or shall respectively belong, at the election of any citizen or burgess to serve in parliament, such certificate of his having taken and subscribed the said oaths and declaration, either from the rolls-office, or from the proper officer of the court in which the said oaths and declaration shall be taken and subscribed; and such But on properson being a freeholder, freeman, burgess, or ducing such inhabitant, so producing and shewing such certi- pists to vote as ficate, shall be then permitted to vote as amply amply as proand fully as any protestant freeholder, freeman, burgess, or inhabitant of such county, city, borough, or town corporate, but not other wise. certificate pa. testants. |