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 706 -«5 Car C. 3 1. Anno fecundo Georgii A. D. i 29. Fetfor.i before xS Nov. 1729. quatifyingvhein /elves according to the Aft 1 Geo,. 1. Stat.2 C.:3 3. indemnified from ali former iOisiiBsns. Officers already .avoided not to be restored*. Part of the Aft jGeo.i. Stat, 2, c. 13. requiring the Oaths, &c. to be taken in three Months, repealed. The Time limi- ted for fuch Qualifications. ' An Afl for preventing Dangers which may happen from Popifo Recufants, by receiving the Sacrament of the ' Lord's Supper, according to the Ufage of the Church of England, and making and fubferibing the Declara- ' tioii againft Trarifubftantiation therein mentioned, which faid Perfons have, through the Shortncfs of the ' Time allowed for that Purpofe, or fome Accident, omitted to take and fubferibe the faid Oaths, or other- c wife to qualify themfelves as aforefaid, within fuch Time, and in fuch Manner as in and by the faid Acts ' refpeftivel.y, or by any other Aft of Parliament in that Behalf made and provided, is required, whereby ' they may be in danger of incurring divers Penalties and Difabilities :' Be it enacted by the King's moll Ex- cellent Majefty, by and with the Advice and Co.nfent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this prefent Parliament affembled, and by the Authority of the fame, That al! and every Perfon and Perfons who fhall, on or before the twenty-eighth Day of November in the Year of our Lord one thoufand ' feven hundred and twenty-nine, take and fubferibe the Oaths appointed by an Aft made in the firft Year of his late Majefty King George the Firft, intituled, An Ail for the further Security of his Majefty's Per- _ fan and Government, and the Succefjion of the Crown in the Heirs of the Princefs Sophia, being Prote/tants, and for extinguifhing the Hopes of the pretended Prince of Wales, and his open and fecret Abettors, in fuch Cafes wherein by Law the faid Oaths ought to have been taken and fubferibed, in fuch Manner and Form, and at fuch Place and Places, as are in and by the faid Aft directed, and alfo receive the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper according to the Ufage of the Church of England, and make and fubferibe the faid Declaration againft Tranfubftantiation, in fuch Cafes wherein the faid Sacrament ought to have been received, and the faid Declaration ought to have been made and fubferibed, {hall be and hereby are indemnified, freed and dif- . charged of, from and againft all Penalties, Forfeitures, Incapacities and Difabilities, incurred for or by reafon of any former Negleft or OmifKon of taking or fubferibing the faid Oaths, or receiving the faid Sacrament, ■or making and fubferibing the faid Declaration refpeftively, according to the above mentioned Acts, or ei- ther of them, or any other Aft or Afts concerning Perfons in Offices or Places of Truft, and is, are and fhall be fully and aftually incapacitated and reftored to the fame State and Condition, as fuch Perfon and Perfons were in before fuch Neglect or Omiflion, and fhall be hereby deemed and adjudged to have duly qualified him, her or themfelves according to the above mentioned Afts, and every of them, and that all Afts done or to be done, by any fuch Perfon or Perfons, or by Authority derived from him or them, are and fhall be of the fame Force and Validity, as the fame, or any of them, would have been, if fuch Per- fon or Perfons had taken and fubferibed the faid Oaths, and received the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper, and made and fubferibed the faid Declaration, according to the Direction of the faid Afts, and every of them ; and that fuch Perfons qualifying themfelves in the Manner, and within the Time appointed by this Aft, fhall be to all Intents and Purpofes as effectual, as if fuch Perfon or Perfons had taken and fubferibed the faid Oaths, and received the faid Sacrament, and made and fubferibed the faid Declaration, within the Time and in the Manner appointed by the feveral Afts before mentioned ; any Law or Statute whatsoever to the contrary in any wife notwithftanding. II. Provided always, That this Aft, or any Thing herein contained, fhall not extend or be conftrued to extend, to reftore or intitle any Perfon or Perfons to any Office or Imployment, Benefice, Matter or Thing whatfoever, already actually avoided by Judgment of any of his Majefty's Courts of Record, or already filled up, and enjoyed by another Perfon; but fuch Office, Imployment, Benefice, Matter or Thing fo avoid- ed, or filled up and enjoyed as aforefaid, fhall be and remain in and to the Perfon or Perfons, who is or are now intitled to the fame, as if this Aft had never been made. ' III. And whereas the Obligation to take and fubferibe the Oaths appointed to be taken and fubferibed ' by Perfons on account of their Offices, Places, Imployments or Profeffions, or any other Caufe in and by ' the faid Aft made in the firft Year of the Reign of his late Majefly King George the Firft, is found in- f convenient, by reafon the Time for taking and fubferibing the faid Oaths is limited to three Months after ' any Perfon's Admittance to, or Entry upon, any Preferment, Benefice, Office, Place, Imployment or Pro- ' feffion, in the faid Aft mentioned:' Be it therefore enacted by the Authority aforefaid, That fo much of the faid. Aft, as requires any Perfon or Perfons to take and fubferibe the faid Oaths therein mentioned, within three Months after he or they fhall be admitted into, or enter upon fuch Preferment, Benefice, Of- fice or Place, or come into fuch Capacity, or take upon him or them fuch Practice, Imployment or Buiinefs, as therein is mentioned, fhall be and is by this Act abfolutely repealed. IV. And be it further enacted by the Authority aforefaid, That all and every Perfon and Perfons that fhall be admitted, entred, placed or taken into any Office or Offices, Civil or Military, or fhall receive any Pay, Salary, Fee or Wages, by Reafon of any Patent or Grant from his Majefty, his Heirs or Suc- ceflbrs, or fhall have Command or Place of Truft, from or under his Majefty, his Heirs or Succeffors, or by his Authority, or by Authority derived from him or them, within that Part of Great Britain called Eng- land, or in his Majefty's Navy, or in the feveral Iflands of Jerfey and Guemfey, or that fhall be admitted into any Service, Office or Imployment, in the Houfhold or Family of his Majefty, or her Majefty, or of his Royal Plighnefs Frederick Prince of Wales, or any other of his Majefty's Iflue, and all Ecclefiaftical Perfons, Pleads or Governors, of what Denomination foever, and all other Members of Colleges and Halls within either of the- Univerfities of Oxford or Cambridge, that are or fhall be of the Foundation, or that do or fhall enjoy any Exhibition, being of, or as foon as they {hall attain the Age of eighteen Years, and all Perfons teaching or reading to Pupils, in either of the aforefaid Univerfities or elfewhere, and all School- mafters and Ufhers, and all Preachers and Teachers of feparate Congregations, High or Chief Conftables, and every Perfon who fhall aft as Serjeant at Law, Counsellor at Law, BarriPcer, Advocate, Attorney, So- licitor, Proftor, Clerk or Notary, by praftifmg in any Manner as fuch in any Court or Courts whatfo- ever, within that Part of Great Britain called England, who fhall at any Time after the twenty-firft Day of 'January one thoufand feven hundred and twenty- eight be admitted into, or enter upon, any of the above mentioned Preferments, Benefices, Offices or Places, or (hall come into any fuch Capacity, or {ball take ypon him or them any fuch Practice, Imployment or Bulinefs as aforefaid, fhall take and fubferibe the Oaths appointed