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assurance and make and subscribe the declaration required by the said recited acts or either of them, or otherwise to qualify themselves as aforesaid, within such time and in such manner as in and by the said acts respectively is required, whereby they have incurred, or may be in danger of incurring, divers penalties and disabilites: for quieting the minds of her majesty's subjects, and for preventing any inconvenience that might otherwise happen by means of such omissions, be it enacted by the queen'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 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 is required, and who, after accepting and allowed any such office, place, or employment, or undertaking any profession or thing, on account of which such qualification 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, or who on or before the twenty-fifth day of March one thousand eight hundred and forty-seven shall take and subscribe the oaths, declarations, and assurance respectively, in such cases wherein by the said several acts or any or either of them the said oaths, declarations, and assurance ought to have been taken and subscribed, in such manner and form, and at or in such place or places, as are appointed in and by the said several acts or any or either of them, 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 making or subscribing the said declarations respectively, or taking or subscribing the said oath, acccording to the abovementioned 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 and be deemed and adjudged to have duly qualified him, her, or themselves according to the abovementioned 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 made and subscribed the said declarations respectively, 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 made and subscribed the said declarations respectively, and taken and subscribed the said oath,within the time and in the manner appointed by the several acts before mentioned.

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II. And whereas several persons well affected to her majesty's Indemnity to government, and to the united church of England and Ireland, have, have omitted through ignorance of the law, neglected, or been, by sickness or to make and other unavoidable causes, prevented from taking and subscribing the oath and the declaration according to the directions of an act passed in the declaration parliament of Ireland in the second year of the reign of her majesty the Irish act queen Anne, intituled an act to prevent the further growth of popery; be it therefore 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 forfeitures 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 made and repeated and subscribed the said declaration, at such time and 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 twentyfifth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and forty-seven.

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III. Provided always, and be it enacted, that this act, or any Not to inthing herein contained, shall not extend or be construed to extend demnify perto indemnify any person against whom final judgment shall have whom final been given in any action of debt, bill, plaint, or information, in any has been of her majesty's courts of record, for any penalty incurred by having given. neglected to qualify himself within the time limited by law. VI. Provided always, and be it enacted, that this act, or any thing store persons herein contained, shall not extend or be construed to extend to to any office restore or entitle any person or persons to any office or employment, benefice, matter, or thing whatsoever, already actually avoided by judgment of any of her majesty's courts of record, already legally filled up and enjoyed by any other person, but that such office or employment, benefice, matter, or thing, so avoided or legally filled up and enjoyed, shall be and remain in and to the person or persons who is or are now or shall at the passing of this act be legally entitled to the same, as if this act had never been passed.

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VII. And be it enacted, that in case any action, suit, bill of General indictment, or information shall from and after the passing of this act be brought, carried on, or prosecuted against any person or persons hereby meant or intended to be indemnified, recapacitated, or restored, for or on account of any forfeiture, penalty, incapacity, or disability whatsoever, incurred or to be incurred by any such neglect or omission, such person or persons may plead the general issue, and upon their defence give this act and the special matter in evidence upon any trial to be had thereupon.

PROTESTANT IRISH CLERGY AND SUBJECTS.

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1 WILLIAM & MARY, CAP. 29.-An act for relief of the EXP. testant Irish clergy.

1 WILLIAM & MARY, SESS. 2, CAP. 9.-An act for the better security and relief of their majesties' protestant subjects of Ireland.Whereas the kingdom of Ireland is (as well by the laws of this kingdom, as those of Ireland) annexed and united to the imperial crown of England, and all acts, judgments, sentences, orders, decrees, or other proceedings, of what kind soever, there had, made, or done, without or against the authority of the kings or queens of this kingdom of England, are absolutely null and void; and all persons in Ireland that oppose or submit not to the government of the crown of this realm, are rebels, and guilty of high treason; notwithstanding which, several persons, since the happy accession of their majesties king William and queen Mary to the imperial crown of this realm, have been lately assembled at or near the city of Dublin in the kingdom of Ireland, without any authority from their said majesties, pretending to be, or calling themselves by the name of a parliament, and in such rebellious assembly have made and passed several pretended acts or statutes, in manifest opposition to the sovereignty, and to the inherent rights and dignities of the crown of this realm, and to the general prejudice and violation of the rights and properties of their majesties' good subjects of that kingdom: and although all the said proceedings are absolutely null and void in themselves, yet nevertheless, for the more plain and express declaring and asserting the sovereignty, rights, and dignities of the crown of England, and for the clearing all doubts, and quieting the minds of their majesties' good subjects of that kingdom, as also for the remedying, preventing, and avoiding the several mischiefs and inconveniencies intended by EXP. this act to be provided against, &c.

2 WILLIAM 4, CAP. 7.-An act for the relief of his majesty's subjects in Ireland being protestants of the established church, and to repeal an act passed in the parliament of Ireland in the thirty-third year of the reign of his majesty king George the third, intituled an act to remove some doubts respecting persons in office taking the sacramental test.-See Title-" ABOLITION OF SACRAMENTAL TEST," vol. i. P. 90.

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TO ACTS OF PARLIAMENT PASSED SUBSEQUENT TO A. D. 1845.