ecclesiastical district in which one of the parties resides] within the above-mentioned district of Hendon. [And I further declare, That I am not a minor under the age of twenty-one years, and that the other party herein named and described is not a minor under the age of twenty-one years. (If one or both of the parties be under age these words must be expunged.)] (Or, as the case may be,) And I further declare, That she [or I] the said Martha Green, not being a widow [or widower], is [or am] a minor under the age of twenty-one years, and that the consent of George Kilpin, whose consent to her [or my] marriage is required by law, has been duly given and obtained thereto [or "that there is no person whose consent to her [or my] marriage is by law required" (as the case may be)]. And I make the foregoing declarations solemnly and deliberately, conscientiously believing the same to be true, pursuant to the provisions of an act passed in the year of her Majesty Queen Victoria, chapter intituled "An Act to amend the Provisions of the Marriage and Registration Acts," well knowing that every person who shall knowingly or wilfully make and sign or subscribe any false declaration or who shall sign any false notice for the purpose of procuring any marriage under the provisions of the said act above mentioned, or any of the several acts therein recited, shall suffer the penalties of perjury. In witness whereof I have hereunto set and subscribed my hand, this fifth day of January, 1858. Signed and declared by the above-named James Smith in the presence of James Smith. [Here let the witness attest the signature of the party giving the notice according to one or other of the following "Examples :"-] In cases of notice thereof By sect. 4, notice of marriage without licence is to be affixed in the superintendent registrar's office for twentyone days, after which time the superintendent registrar may give a certificate as in schedule B. Sect. 9. "Every superintendent registrar receiving notice of an intended marriage to be solemnized by licence as aforesaid shall, after the expiration of one whole day next after the day of the entry of such notice in his 'marriage notice book,' issue under his hand, upon the request of the party giving such notice, a certificate in the form or to the effect of the certificate set forth in the said schedule (B.) to this act annexed, and also a licence to marry, provided that in the meantime no lawful impediment to the issuing of such certificate be shown to the satisfaction of the same superintendent registrar, and provided the issue of such certificate shall not have been forbidden in the manner provided by either of the said firstly and secondly recited acts by some person or persons authorized in that behalf; and every such certificate shall state the particulars set forth in the said notice, and the day on which the same notice was entered, and that the issue of such certificate has not been forbidden by any person or persons authorized in that behalf; and for every such certificate the superintendent registrar shall be entitled to have and receive a fee of one shilling; and at any time within three calendar months next after the day of the entry of such notice the intended marriage may be solemnized under the authority of the said licence; and every superintendent registrar's certificate and licence for marriage duly issued under the provisions of this act shall have the same force, validity, and effect as the like certificate and licence issued under the provisions of the said recited acts or either of them would have had in case this act had not been passed." "SCHEDULE (B.) Form of Superintendent Registrar's Certificate. I, John Cox, superintendent registrar of the district of Hendon in the county of Middlesex, do hereby certify that on the 5th day of January, 1857, notice was duly entered in the marriage notice book of the said district of the marriage intended between the parties hereinafter named and described, and of such marriage being intended to be solemnized without [or by, as the case may be] licence, delivered under the hand of James Smith, one of the parties; that is to say: Date of entry of notice,) The issue of this certificate has 5th January, 1857. Date of certificate given, 27th January, 1857. Witness my hand, this 1857. (Signed) not been forbidden by any twenty-seventh day of January, John Cox, This certificate will be void unless the marriage is solemnized within three calendar months after the date of the entry of notice, namely, on or before the 5th day of April, 1857." Sect. 10. "The form of a licence for marriage so to be Form of licence granted as aforesaid to any party or parties, by the super- for marriage. intendent registrar of any district as aforesaid, shall be in the form or to the effect of the licence set forth in schedule (C.) to this act annexed; and for every such licence the superintendent registrar granting the same shall be entitled to have and receive of the party requiring the same the sum of one pound ten shillings, over and above the amount paid for the stamps necessary on granting such licence." "Whereas in pursuance of some or one of the statutes next hereinafter mentioned made and now in force concerning the contracting and solemnizing of marriages in England; (that is to say,) an act passed in the seventh year of his late Majesty King William the Fourth, chapter 85; an act passed in the first year of her present Majesty, chapter 22; an act passed in the fourth year of her said Majesty, chapter 72; and an act passed in the year of her said Majesty, chapter of did of ; one day of give due notice your intention to enter into a contract of marriage, and you are desirous that such marriage should be speedily performed at in the district of : and whereas it has been made to appear to my satisfaction that in regard to your said intended marriage you have severally in all respects complied with the provisions and requirements of the above-mentioned statutes, so far as such provisions and requirements are applicable to and binding upon you or either of you: and whereas no impediment of kindred or alliance or other lawful hindrance to the said marriage has been shown to exist: and whereas the certificate required by law has been duly issued by me: now, therefore, I, the said superintendent registrar, by virtue of the power and authority vested in me in that behalf, do hereby grant unto you the aforesaid A. B. and C. D. full licence and permission to proceed in due form of law to contract and solemnize such marriage at in the said dis trict at any time within but not after the expiration of three calendar months next following the day of Mode of solemnizing such marriages. Persons de the religious Superintendent Registrar of the above-mentioned district." Sect. 11. "No such marriage as aforesaid shall be solemnized. in any church or chapel of the united church of England and Ireland without the consent of the minister thereof, nor in such latter case by any other than a duly qualified clergyman of the said united church, or with any other forms or ceremonies than those of the said united church." Sect. 12. "If the parties to any marriage contracted sirous may add at the registry office of any district conformably to the said recited acts or any of them, or to the provisions of this act, shall desire to add the religious ceremony ordained or used by the church or persuasion of which such parties shall be members to the marriage so contracted, it shall be ceremony ordained by the church. competent for them to present themselves for that purpose to a clergyman or minister of the church or persuasion of which such parties shall be members, having given notice to such clergyman or minister of their intention so to do; and such clergyman or minister, upon the production of their certificate of marriage before the superintendent registrar, and upon the payment of the customary fees (if any), may, if he shall see fit, in the church or chapel whereof he is the regular minister, by himself or by some minister nominated by him, read or celebrate the marriage service of the persuasion to which such minister shall belong: provided always, that no minister of religion who is not in holy orders of the united church of England and Ireland shall under the provisions of this act officiate in any church or chapel of the united church of England and Ireland; but nothing in the reading or celebration of such service shall be held to supersede or invalidate any marriage so previously contracted, nor shall such reading or celebration be entered as a marriage among the marriages in the parish register: provided also, that at no marriage solemnized at the registry office of any district shall any religious service be used at such registry office." the recited Sect. 17. After any marriage shall have been solem- Proof of the nized, under the authority of any of the said recited acts observance of or of this act, it shall not be necessary in support of such this act and of marriage to give any proof of the actual dwelling or of the acts, matters period of dwelling of either of the parties previous to the not necessary marriage within the district stated in any notice of mar- to the validity of marriages. riage to be that of his or her residence, or of the consent to any marriage having been given by any person whose consent thereto is required by law, or that the registered building in which any marriage may have been solemnized had been certified according to law as a place of religious worship, or that such building was the usual place of worship of either of the parties, nor shall any evidence be given to prove the contrary in any suit or legal proceedings touching the validity of such marriage; and all marriages which heretofore have been or which hereafter may be had or solemnized, under the authority of any of the said recited acts or of this act, in any building or place of worship which has been registered pursuant to the provisions of the said act 6 & 7 Will. 4, c. 85, but which may not have been certified as required by law, shall be as valid in all respects as if such place of worship had been so certified. Sect. 23. "Every marriage solemnized under any of Marriages |