THE STATUTES AT LARGE. Anno Regni GEORGII IV. Britanniarum Regis A Sexto. T the Parliament begun and holden at Westminster, the Twenty first Day of April, Anno Domini 1820, in the First Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord GEORGE the Fourth, by the Grace of God, of the United Kingdom of Great • Britain and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith; and from thence continued, by several Prorogations, to the Third Day of • February 1825, being the Sixth Session of the Seventh Parlia⚫ment of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. CAP. I. An Act for granting and applying certain Sums of Money (a) for the Service of the Year One thousand eight hundred and twenty five. [4th March 1825.] Most Gracious Sovereign, E Your Majesty's most dutiful and loyal Subjects, the Ireland, in Parliament assembled, towards raising the necessary Supplies which we have cheerfully granted to Your Majesty in this Session of Parliament, have resolved to give and grant 'unto Your Majesty the Sums hereinafter mentioned;' and do 'therefore most humbly beseech Your Majesty that it may be " enacted, &c. แ 5,000,000l. arising from former Aids, to be applied for 1825.4,470,370. pursuant to 3 G.4.c. 51. and 4G. 4. c. 22. 60,000l. " from the East India Company.- Money paid into the Ex"chequer, in respect of Exchequer Bills issued for Public Works, "and also whatever Balance may remain in the Exchequer, or "Proviso, (if such Balance reduced to less than 100,000%) for the "be paid by the Bank of England, pursuant to 56 G. 3. c.97. "Repayment to the Bank of so much of the Money advanced by them, as shall be equal to the Sum by which such Balance "shall be less than 100,000l. a) [As to the Appropriation of these Sums, see Cap. 134. §3. post.} 6 GEO. IV. B CAP. CAP. II. 1 G.1. st. 2. c. 13. 13 C. 2. st. 2. c.1. 25 C.2. c. 2. 30 C.2. st.2. 8 G. 1. c.6. 9 G.2. c. 26. An Act for raising the Sum of Twenty Millions (a) by Ex- (a) [As to the Appropriation of this Sum, see Cap. 134. § 3. post.] CA P. III. An Act to indemnify such Persons in the United Kingdom '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, Devisees, and Lessees; or according to another Act made in the Eighteenth Year of the Reign of His late Majesty King George 13 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, 4 • 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 Persons who Person or Persons who, at or before the passing of this Act, hath have omitted to or shall have omitted to take and subscribe the Oaths and Decla- make and subrations, or to receive the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper, or otherwise to qualify him, her or themselves, within such Time and quired by Law, in such Manner as in and by the said Acts, or any of them, or by and shall qualify any other Act of Parliament in that Behalf made, is required; and on or before who, after accepting any such Office, Place or Employment, or March 25, undertaking any Profession or Thing on account of which such 1826, indem. 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, scribe the Oaths, &c. re 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 |