CA P. II. 1 G.1. st. 2. c. 13. 13 C. 2. st. 2. c.1. 25 C.2. c. 2. An Act for raising the Sum of Twenty Millions (a) by Ex- an (a) [As to the Appropriation of this Sum, see Cap. 134. § 3. post.] WH 'CA P. III. and An Act to indemnify such Persons in the United Kingdom 6 30 C. 2. st. 2. ' 8 G. 1. c.6. ; or Second, Second, intituled An Act for indemnifying Persons who have omit'ted to qualify themselves for Offices within the Time limited by Law, and for allowing further Time for that Purpose; and for amending so much of an Act passed in the Second Year of the Reign of His present Majesty, as requires Persons to qualify 'themselves for Offices before the End of the next Term or Quarter Sessions; and also for enlarging the Time limited by Law for making and subscribing the Declaration against Transubstantiation ; and for allowing a further Time for Enrolment of Deeds and Wills 'made by Papists; and for Relief of Protestant Purchasers, Devi 6 ८ 6 sees, and Lessees; or according to another Act made in the Eighteenth Year of the Reign of His late Majesty King George 18 G.2. c. 20. the Second, intituled An Act to amend and render more effectual an Act passed in the Fifth Year of His present Majesty's Reign, intituled An Act for the further Qualification of Justices of the Peace' or according to another Act made in the Sixth Year of 6 G.3. c.53. the Reign of His late Majesty, King George the Third, intituled An Act for altering the Oath of Abjuration, and the Assurance, and for amending so much of an Act made in the Seventh Year of the Reign of Her late Majesty Queen Anne, intituled An Act for the Improvement of the Union of the Two Kingdoms, as, after the • Time therein limited, requires the Delivery of certain Lists and Copies therein mentioned to Persons indicted of High Treason or Misprision of Treason;' have, through Ignorance of the Law, Absence or some unavoidable Accident, omitted to take and subscribe the Oaths and Assurance, and make and subscribe the Declaration required by Law, or otherwise to qualify themselves as aforesaid, within such Time and in such Manner as in and by the said Acts respectively, or by any other Act of Parliament in that Behalf made, is required, whereby they have incurred, or may be in danger of incurring, divers Penalties and Disabilities:" For quieting the Minds of His Majesty's Subjects, and for preventing any Inconvenience that might otherwise happen by means of such Omissions, be it enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament. assembled, and by the Authority of the same, That all and every Person or Persons who, at or before the passing of this Act, hath or shall have omitted to take and subscribe the Oaths and Declarations, or to receive the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper, or otherwise to qualify him, her or themselves, within such Time and in such Manner as in and by the said Acts, or any of them, or by any other Act of Parliament in that Behalf made, is required; and who, after accepting any such Office, Place or Employment, or undertaking any Profession or Thing on account of which such Qualifications ought to have been had, and is required, before the passing of this Act, hath or have taken and subscribed the said Oaths, or made the Declarations required by Law, and also received the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper according to the Usage of the Church of England; or who, on or before the Twenty fifth Day of March, One thousand eight hundred and twenty six, shall take and subscribe the Oaths, Declarations and Assurance respectively, in such Cases wherein by Law the said Oaths, Declarations and Assurance ought to have been taken and subscribed, Persons who have omitted to scribe the nified. in such Manner and Form, and at or in such Place or Places, as are appointed in and by the said Act made in the First Year of the Reign of His said late Majesty King George the First, or by any other Act or Acts of Parliament in that Behalf made and provided; and also hath or have received, or shall, on or before the said Twenty fifth Day of March One thousand eight hundred and twenty six, receive the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper, according to the Usage of the Church of England, in such Cases wherein the said Sacrament ought to have been received, and hath or ought to have made and subscribed, or shall, on or before the said Twenty fifth Day of March One thousand eight hundred and twenty six, make and subscribe the said Declaration against Transubstantiation; and also hath or have made and subscribed, or shall, on or before the said Twenty fifth Day of March One thousand eight hundred and twenty six, make and subscribe the said Declaration in the said Statute made in the Thirtieth Year of King Charles the Second, in such Cases wherein the said Declaration ought to have been made and subscribed, or to take and subscribe the Oath directed by the said Act made in the Eighteenth Year of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the Second, in such Cases wherein the said Oath ought to have been taken and subscribed, in such Manner as by the said Act is directed, shall be and are hereby indemnified, freed and discharged from and against all Penalties, Forfeitures, Incapacities and Disabilities, incurred or to be incurred for or by reason of any Neglect or Omission, previous to the passing of this Act, of taking or subscribing the said Oaths or Assurance, or receiving the Sacrament, or making or Subscribing the said Declaration, or taking or subscribing the said Oath, according to the above-mentioned Acts or any of them, or any other Act or Acts; and such Person or Persons is and are and shall be fully and actually recapacitated and restored to the same State and Condition as he, she or they were in before such Neglect or Omission and shall be deemed and adjudged to have duly qualified him, her or themselves according to the above mentioned Acts and every of them; and that all Elections of, and Acts done or to be done by any such Person or Persons, or by Authority derived from him, her or them, are and shall be of the same Force and Validity as the same or any of them would have been if such Person or Persons respectively had taken the said Oaths or Assurance, and received the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper, and made and subscribed the said Declarations, and taken and subscribed the said Oath according to the Directions of the said Acts and every or any of them; and that the Qualification of such Person or Persons qualifying themselves in Manner and within the Time appointed by this Act, shall be to all Intents and Purposes as effectual as if such Person or Persons had respectively taken the said Oaths and Assurance, and received the Sacrament, and made and subscribed the said Declaration, and taken and subscribed the said Oath, within the Time and in the Manner appointed by the several Acts before mentioned. • II. And Whereas several Persons well affected to His Majesty's · Government, and to the United Church of England and Ireland, have, through Ignorance of the Law, neglected, or been, by Sickness or other unavoidable Causes, prevented from taking • and : and subscribing the Declaration, and from receiving the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper, and delivering a Certificate thereof, according to the Directions of an Act passed in the Parliament of Ireland, in the Second Year of the Reign of Her late Majesty · Queen Anne, intituled An Act to prevent the further Growth of Popery;' Be it therefore further enacted, That all Persons who have incurred any Penalty or Incapacity in the said recited Act mentioned, by neglecting to qualify themselves according to the said Act, shall be and are hereby indemnified, freed, and discharged from all Incapacities, Disabilities, Penalties and Forfeiures incurred by reason of such Omission or Neglect as aforesaid; and that no Act done by any of them, not yet avoided, shall be questioned or avoided by reason of such Omission or Neglect, but that all such Acts shall be and are hereby declared to be as good and effectual, as if such Persons respectively had taken and subscribed the said Oath, and received the said Sacrament, and delivered the Certificate thereof, and made and repeated and subscribed the said Declaration, at such Time, Place and Manner as in the said Act is mentioned; any Thing in the said Act to the contrary notwithstanding: Provided always, that such Person or Persons do and shall take and subscribe the said Oaths, and make, repeat and subscribe the said Declaration, in such Manner and Form, and in such Place or Places respectively, as are directed and appointed by the said last recited Act, on or before the Twenty fifth Day of March One thousand eight hundred and twenty six. 6 Persons who have omitted to make and subscribe the Oaths, &c. required by the Irish Act of 2 Anne, and shall qualify on or before March 25, 1826, indem nified. · III. And Whereas several Persons have inadvertently, and without any corrupt or interested Motives, acted as Trustees in the Execution of divers Acts of Parliament, for the making or repairing of divers Turnpike Roads in England, without being 'possessed of the Qualifications required respectively by the 6 several Acts of Parliament under which such Persons were appointed or elected to be Trustees, and without having taken and subscribed the Oaths or Affirmations of their Qualifications required by such Acts respectively;' Be it further enacted, That Trustees of all Persons who have incurred any Penalty or Incapacity men- Turnpike tioned in or inflicted by any Act or Acts of Parliament for the Roads not making or repairing of any Turnpike Road or Roads in England, Qualification, having the by acting as Trustees in the Execution of any such Act or Acts indemnified. without being possessed of the Qualifications required by any such Act or Acts respectively, or by neglecting to take and subscribe any Oath or Affirmation required to qualify them as such Trustees, according to any such Act or Acts respectively, shall be and are hereby indemnified, freed and discharged from all Incapacities, Disabilities, Penalties and Forfeitures, incurred by reason of such acting or of such Omission or Neglect as aforesaid; and that no Act, Matter or Thing, done by any of them in the Execution of any such Act or Acts of Parliament, and not yet avoided, shall be questioned or avoided by reason of such acting, or of such Omission or Neglect as aforesaid, but that all such Acts, Matters and Things shall be, and are hereby declared to be, as good and effectual, to all Intents and Purposes whatsoever, as if such Persons respectively had been duly qualified to act as such Trustees, and had taken and subscribed such Oaths or Affirmations at B 3 such Not to indemnify Persons against whom such Place and in such Manner as is required respectively by the several Acts under which such Persons shall have acted as Trustees as aforesaid; any Thing in the said Acts, or any of them, to the contrary thereof in anywise notwithstanding: Provided always, that such Person or Persons do and shall take and subscribe the Oaths or Affirmations of Qualification required by the respective Act or Acts under which such Person or Persons shall act as a Trustee or Trustees, in such Manner and Form, and in such Place or Places respectively, as are directed and appointed by the said Acts respectively, before any such Person or Persons shall act as such Trustee or Trustees at any Time after the Expiration of Two Calendar Months next after the passing of this Act. IV. Provided always, That this Act, or any Thing herein contained, shall not extend or be construed to extend to indemnify final Judgment any Person against whom final Judgment shall have been given any Action of Debt, Bill, Plaint or Information in any of His Majesty's Courts of Record, for any Penalty incurred by having neglected to qualify himself within the Time limited by Law. is given. Not to exempt Justices acting without legal Qualification, Admission to Corporations may be stamped lowed by Law. after Time al in V. Provided always, and be it further enacted, That nothing contained in this Act shall extend or be construed to extend to exempt any Justice of the Peace within Great Britain from the Penalties to which he is subject for acting as such without being possessed of the Qualification required by the Law now in force. • : VI. And Whereas the Appointment of divers Clerks of the Peace, Town Clerks and other public Officers, and the Admis'sion of divers Members and Officers of Cities, Corporations and Borough Towns in Great Britain and Ireland, or the Entries of such Admissions in the Court Books, Rolls or Records of such Cities, Corporations and Borough Towns, which by several Acts of Parliament are directed and required to be stamped, may not have been provided, or the same not stamped, or may have been lost or mislaid;' Be it further enacted, That for the Relief of such Persons whose Appointments and Admissions, or the Entries of whose Admissions as aforesaid may not have been provided, or not duly stamped, or where the same have been lost or mislaid, it shall and may be lawful to and for such Persons. in Great Britain or Ireland, on or before the Twenty fifth Day of March One thousand eight hundred and twenty six, to provide or cause to be provided Appointments and Admissions, or Entries of Admissions as aforesaid, duly stamped; or in case where such Appointments, Admissions or Entries of Admissions as aforesaid have been made or provided, but have not been duly stamped, to produce such Appointments, Admissions or Entries of Admissions as aforesaid to the Commissioners appointed to inspect and manage the Revenues of the Stamp Duties to be duly stamped; which such Commissioners are hereby authorized, empowered and required to duly stamp, on Payment of the Duties first payable or to have been paid on such Appointments, Admissions or Entries of Admissions as aforesaid, without any Fine or Forfeiture thereon; and in order to denote the said Duties, the said Commissioners are hereby authorized and empowered to use such Stamps as shall have been heretofore provided to denote any former Duties on Stamped Vellum, Parchment and Paper, or to cause new Stamps to be provided for that Purpose, and to do 10* all |