issued for Marriage by Licence shall be printed with Red Ink, and every Certificate to be issued for Marriages without Licence shall be printed with Black Ink, and such other distinctive Marks between the Two Kinds of Certificate shall be used from Time to Time as shall seem fit to the Registrar General.

IX. And be it enacted, That any Person authorized in that Issue of Superintendent ReBehalf may forbid the Issue of the Superintendent Registrar's gistrar's CerCertificate by writing at any Time before the Issue of such Certificate may be tificate the Word "Forbidden" opposite to the Entry of the forbidden. Notice of such intended Marriage in the Marriage Notice Book, and by subscribing thereto his or her Name and Place of Abode, and his or her Character, in respect of either of the Parties, by reason of which he or she is so authorized; and in case the Issue of any such Certificate shall have been so forbidden the Notice and all Proceedings thereupon shall be utterly void.

X. And be it enacted, That after the said First Day of March Consent. the like Consent shall be required to any Marriage in England solemnized by Licence as would have been required by Law to Marriages solemnized by Licence immediately before the passing of this Act; and every Person whose Consent to a Marriage by Licence is required by Law is hereby authorized to forbid the Issue of the Superintendent Registrar's Certificate, whether the Marriage is intended to be by Licence or without Licence.

XI. And be it enacted, That after the said First Day of March Superintendent every Superintendent Registrar shall have Authority to grant Registrar may Licences for Marriage in any Building registered as herein-after for Marriage. provided within any District under his Superintendence, or in his Office, in the Form of Schedule (C.) to this Act annexed, and for every such Licence shall be entitled to have of the Party requiring the same the Sum of Three Pounds above the Value of the Stamps necessary on granting such Licence; and every Superintendent Registrar shall Four Times in every Year, on such Days as shall be appointed by the Registrar General, make a Return to the Registrar General of every Licence granted by him since his last Return, and of the Particulars stated concerning the Parties: Provided always, that no Superintendent Registrar shall grant any such Licence until he shall have given Security by his Bond in the Sum of One hundred Pounds to the Registrar General for the due and faithful Execution of his Office: Provided also, that nothing herein contained shall authorize any Superintendent Registrar to grant any Licence for Marriage in any Church or Chapel in which Marriages may be solemnized according to the Rites of the Church of England, or in any Church or Chapel belonging to the Church of England or licensed for the Celebration of Divine Worship according to the Rites and Ceremonies of the Church of England, or any Licence for Marriage in any registered Building which shall not be within his District.

Superinten

dent Registrar to give Secu

rity.

Proviso.

XII. And be it enacted, That before any Licence for Marriage Certificate to shall be granted by any such Superintendent Registrar One of the be given before Parties intending Marriage shall appear personally before such the Licence is Superintendent Registrar, and in case the Notice of such intended granted. Marriage shall not have been given to such Superintendent Registrar, shall deliver to him the Certificate of the Superintendent Registrar or Superintendent Registrars to whom such Notice shall

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Caveat may be lodged with Superintendent Registrar against Grant

of Licence or Certificate.

Marriages not to be solem

nized until after 21 Days after Entry of Notice, unless by Licence.

New Notice required after Three Months.

have been given, and such Party shall make Oath, or shall make his or her solemn Affirmation or Declaration instead of taking an Oath, that he or she believeth that there is not any Impediment of Kindred or Alliance or other lawful Hindrance to the said Marriage, and that One of the said Parties hath for the Space of Fifteen Days immediately before the Day of the Grant of such Licence had his or her usual Place of Abode within the District within which such Marriage is to be solemnized, and where either of the Parties, not being a Widower or Widow, shall be under the Age of Twenty-one Years, that the Consent of the Person or Persons whose Consent to such Marriage is required by Law has been obtained thereto, or that there is no Person having Authority to give such Consent, as the Case may be; and all such Licences and Declarations shall be respectively liable to the same Stamp Duties as Licences for Marriage granted by the Ordinary of any Diocese, and Affidavits made in order to procure the same.

XIII. And be it enacted, That any Person, on Payment of Five Shillings, may enter a Caveat with the Superintendent Registrar against the Grant of a Certificate or a Licence for the Marriage of any Person named therein; and if any Caveat be entered with the Superintendent Registrar, such Caveat being duly signed by or on behalf of the Person who enters the same, together with his or her Place of Residence, and the Ground of Objection on which his or her Caveat is founded, no Certificate or Licence shall issue or be granted until the Superintendent Registrar shall have examined into the Matter of the Caveat, and is satisfied that it ought not to obstruct the Grant of the Certificate or Licence for the said Marriage, or until the Caveat be withdrawn by the Party who entered the same; provided that in Cases of Doubt it shall be lawful for the Superintendent Registrar to refer the Matter of any such Caveat to the Registrar General, who shall decide upon the same: Provided likewise, that in case of the Superintendent Registrar refusing the Grant of the Certificate or Licence, the Person applying for the same shall have a Right to appeal to the Registrar General, who shall thereupon either confirm the Refusal or direct the Grant of the Certificate or Licence.

XIV. And be it enacted, That after the said First Day of March no Marriage after such Notice as aforesaid, unless by virtue of a Licence to be granted by the Superintendent Registrar, shall be solemnized or registered in England until after the Expiration of Twenty-one Days after the Day of the Entry of such Notice as aforesaid; and no Marriage shall be solemnized by the Licence of any Superintendent Registrar or registered until after the Expiration of Seven Days after the Day of the Entry of such Notice as aforesaid.

XV. And be it enacted, That whenever a Marriage shall not be had within Three Calendar Months after the Notice shall have been so entered by the Superintendent Registrar, the Notice and Certificate, and any Licence which may have been granted thereupon, and all other Proceedings thereupon, shall be utterly void; and no Person shall proceed to solemnize the Marriage, nor shall any Registrar register the same, until new Notice shall have been given, and Entry made, and Certificate thereof given, at the Time and in the Manner aforesaid.

XVI. And

XVI. And be it enacted, That the Superintendent's Certificate, Superintendent or, in case the Parties shall have given Notice to the Super- Registrar's intendent of different Districts, the Certificate of each SuperCertificate or intendent, shall be delivered to the Officiating Minister, if the delivered to the Licence to be Marriage shall be solemnized according to the Rites of the Church Person by or of England; and the said Certificate or Licence shall be delivered before whom the to the Registering Officer of the People called Quakers for the Marriage is Place where the Marriage is solemnized, if the same shall be solemnized. solemnized according to the Usages of the said People; or to the Officer of a Synagogue by whom the Marriage is registered, if the same shall be solemnized according to the Usages of Persons professing the Jewish Religion; and in all other Cases shall be delivered to the Registrar present at the Marriage, as herein-after provided.

trars of Mar. riages.

XVII. And be it enacted, That it shall be lawful for the Super- Superintendent intendent Registrar of any Union, Parish, or Place, subject to the Registrar may Approval of the Board of Guardians thereof, to appoint by Writing appoint Regisunder his Hand such Person or Persons as he may think fit, with such Qualifications as the Registrar General, by any general Rule, may declare to be necessary, to be a Registrar or Registrars for the Purpose of being present at Marriages to be solemnized by virtue of this Act at which the Presence of a Registrar is made necessary, and every such Registrar of Marriages shall hold his Office during the Pleasure of the Superintendent Registrar by whom he was appointed, or of the Registrar General.

registered for

XVIII. And be it enacted, That any Proprietor or Trustee of Places of Wora separate Building, certified according to Law as a Place of ship may be Religious Worship, may apply to the Superintendent Registrar solemnizing of the District, in order that such Building may be registered for Marriages solemnizing Marriages therein, and in such Case shall deliver therein. to the Superintendent Registrar a Certificate, signed in Duplicate by Twenty Householders at the least, that such Building has been used by them during One Year at the least as their usual Place of public Religious Worship, and that they are desirous that such Place should be registered as aforesaid, each of which Certificates shall be countersigned by the Proprietor or Trustee by whom the same shall be delivered; and the Superintendent Registrar shall send both Certificates to the Register General, who shall register such Building accordingly in a Book to be kept for that Purpose at the General Register Office; and the Registrar General shall indorse on both Certificates the Date of the Registry, and shall keep one Certificate with the other Records of the General Register Office, and shall return the other Certificate to the Superintendent Registrar, who shall keep the same with the other Records of his Office; and the Superintendent Registrar shall enter the Date of the Registry of such Building in a Book to be furnished to him for that Purpose by the Registrar General, and shall give a Certificate of such Registry under his Hand, on Parchment or Vellum, to the Proprietor or Trustee by whom the Certificates are countersigned, and shall give public Notice of the Registry thereof by Advertisement in some Newspaper circulating within the County, and in the London Gazette; and for every such Entry, Certificate, and Publication the Superintendent Re

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gistrar shall receive at the Time of the Delivery to him of the Certificates the Sum of Three Pounds.

XIX. And be it enacted, That if at any Time subsequent to the Registry of any Building for solemnizing Marriages therein it shall be made to appear to the Satisfaction of the Registrar General that such Building has been disused for the public Religious Worship of the Congregation on whose Behalf it was registered as aforesaid, the Registrar General shall cause the Registry thereof to be cancelled; provided that if it shall be proved to the Satisfaction of the Registrar General that the same Congregation use instead thereof some other such Building for the Purpose of public Religious Worship, the Registrar General may substitute and register such new Place of Worship instead of the disused Building, although such new Place of Worship may not have been used for that Purpose during One Year then next preceding; and every Application for cancelling the Registry of any such Building, or for such Substitution and Registry of a substituted Building, shall be made to the Registrar General by or through the Superintendent Registrar of the District; and such Cancel or Substitution, when made, shall be made known by the Registrar General to the Superintendent Registrar, who shall enter the Fact and the Date thereof in the Book provided for the Registry of such Buildings, and shall certify and publish such Cancel or Substitution and Registry in manner herein-before provided in the Case of the original Registry of the disused Building; and for every such Substitution the Superintendent Registrar shall receive, at the Time of the Delivery of the Certificate from the Party requiring the Substitution, the Sum of Three Pounds; and after such Cancel or Substitution shall have been made by the Registrar General it shall not be lawful to solemnize any Marriage in such disused Building, unless the same shall be again registered in the Manner herein-before provided.

XX. And be it enacted, That after the Expiration of the said Period of Twenty-one Days, or of Seven Days if the Marriage is by Licence, Marriages may be solemnized in the registered Building stated as aforesaid in the Notice of such Marriage, between and by the Parties described in the Notice and Certificate, according to such Form and Ceremony as they may see fit to adopt: Provided nevertheless, that every such Marriage shall be solemnized with open Doors, between the Hours of Eight and Twelve in the Forenoon, in the Presence of some Registrar of the District in which such registered Building is situate, and of Two or more credible Witnesses; provided also, that in some Part of the Ceremony, and in the Presence of such Registrar and Witnesses, each of the Parties shall declare,

I do solemnly declare, That I know not of any lawful Impediment why I A. B. may not be joined in Matrimony to C.D.'

And each of the Parties shall say to the other,

I call upon these Persons here present to witness that I
A. B. do take thee C. D. to be my lawful wedded Wife

For Husband ]'

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Provided also, that there be no lawful Impediment to the Marriage of such Parties.

Registrar.

XXI. And be it enacted, That any Persons who shall object to Marriages may marry under the Provisions of this Act in any such registered be celebrated. Building may, after due Notice and Certificate issued as aforesaid, before the Sucontract and solemnize Marriage at the Office and in the Presence perintendent of the Superintendent Registrar and some Registrar of the District, and in the Presence of Two Witnesses, with open Doors, and between the Hours aforesaid, making the Declaration and using the Form of Words herein-before provided in the Case of Marriage in any such registered Building.

XXII. And be it enacted, That the Registrar shall be entitled Marriage Fees for every Marriage which shall be solemnized under this Act in to the Registrar. his Presence to have from the Parties married the Sum of Ten Shillings if the Marriage shall be by Licence, and otherwise the Sum of Five Shillings.

Registrar to

register all Marriages solemnized before

him in Books

XXIII. And be it enacted, That the Registrar shall forthwith register every Marriage solemnized in manner aforesaid in his Presence in a Marriage Register Book to be furnished to him for that Purpose from Time to Time by the Registrar General, according to the Form provided for the Registration of Marriages by an to be sent by Act made in this present Session of Parliament, intituled An Act the Registrar for registering Births, Deaths, and Marriages in England, the General. Cost of which shall be defrayed in like Manner as the Cost of 6&7W.4.c.86. providing Register Books of Births and Deaths; and every Entry of such Marriage shall be signed by the Person by or before whom the Marriage shall have been solemnized, if there shall be any such Person, and by the Registrar, and also by the Parties married, and attested by Two Witnesses; and every such Entry shall be made in Order from the Beginning to the End of the Book. XXIV. And be it enacted, That in every Year, on such Days as Copies of the shall from Time to Time be appointed by the Registrar General, Marriage Rewithin One Calendar Month next after the First Day of April, gister Book the First Day of July, the First Day of October, and the First to be given quarterly to Day of January respectively, every Registrar shall make and the Superindeliver to the Superintendent Registrar of his District a true Copy, tendent Recertified by him under his Hand, according to the Form of Sche- gistrar. dule (D.) to this Act annexed, of all the Entries of Marriage in the Register Book kept by him since the last Delivery, and the Superintendent Registrar shall verify the same, and if found to be correct shall certify the same under his Hand to be a true Copy; and if there shall have been no Marriage registered since the Delivery of the last certified Copy, the Registrar shall certify the Fact, and such Certificate shall be delivered to the Superintendent Registrar as aforesaid, and counter-signed by him; and the Registrar shall keep safely the said Register Book until it shall be filled, and shall then deliver it to the Superintendent Registrar to be kept by him with the Records of his Office.

or Consent,

XXV. And be it enacted, That after any Marriage shall have Proof of Resibeen solemnized it shall not be necessary in support of such Mar- dence of Parties, riage to give any Proof of the actual Dwelling of either of the Parties previous to the Marriage within the District wherein such Marriage was solemnized for the Time required by this Act, or of

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not necessary to establish the

Marriage.