Places of Religious Worship Registration.

certified or last certified the same (as the Case may be), or the the Purposes Trustee or One of the Trustees for the Time being of such Place for which it was certified. of Meeting, or the Owner or Occupier or One of the Owners or Occupiers thereof, shall, if then resident within the Superintendent Registrar's District within which such Place shall be situate, forthwith give Notice to the Registrar General through such Superinterdent Registrar that such Place has so ceased to be used as a Place of Meeting for Religious Worship, such Notice to be in a Form in accordance with the Schedule B. to this Act, or to the like Effect, and which Form shall be provided by the said Registrar General, and may be obtained (without Payment) upon Application to the said Superintendent Registrar; and the Person giving such Notice shall sign the same in the Presence of such Superintendent Registrar or of his Deputy, who shall forthwith transmit the same through the General Post to the Registrar General at the General Register Office.

VII. The said Registrar General shall, in the Year One thou- List of certified sand eight hundred and fifty-six, and also at such subsequent Places to be Periods as One of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State printed. shall from Time to Time in that Behalf order or direct, make out and cause to be printed a List of all Places of Meeting which have been certified to and recorded by him under the said Act of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Years of Her Majesty, Chapter Thirty-six, or this Act, and the Record of which has not been cancelled as herein-after provided, and shall state in such List the County and Superintendent Registrar's District within which each of such Places of Meeting is situated, and the Religious Denomination to which the Persons for the Time being certifying it belong, and shall cause a Copy cf such List to be sent to every Superintendent Registrar of Births, Deaths, and Marriages in England, and such List shall be open at all reasonable Times to all Persons desirous of inspecting the same on Payment to such Superintendent Registrar of a Fee of One Shilling.

cords of Certi

VIII. Whenever it shall appear to the Satisfaction of the said Direction to the Registrar General, from any Notice which shall have been given Registrar Geneto him as aforesaid or otherwise that any certified Place of Meet- ral to cancel Reing for Religious Worship has wholly ceased to be used as such, ficates of Places the said Registrar General shall cause the Record of such Certifi- of Worship cation to be cancelled, and shall give public Notice of the Cancel- ceasing to be lation thereof by Advertisement in some Newspaper circulating used as such. within the District in which such Place of Meeting is situated, and in the London Gazette, and shall also expunge the Name of such Place from the List of certified Places so to be printed by him as aforesaid; and after such Cancellation and Publication thereof as aforesaid such Place shall cease to be deemed duly certified as by Law required, and shall so remain until it shall have been duly certified afresh under this Act.

IX. Every Place of Meeting for Religious Worship certified to the said Registrar General under the said Act of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Years of Her Majesty, Chapter Thirty-six, or this Act, and recorded by him as aforesaid, so long as the same continues to

be

Certified Places exempted from of "The Chathe Operation ritable Trusts Act, 1853."

Nothing to affect Churches, &c. of Esta

Places of Religious Worship Registration.

be bona fide used as a Place of Religious Worship, and the Record of the Certification thereof has not been cancelled as herein-before is provided, shall be wholly freed and exempted from the Operation of an Act passed in the Session holden in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Years of Her Majesty, Chapter One hundred and thirty-seven, intituled "The Charitable Trusts Act, 1853," and shall not be subject or liable to any of the Provisions of the same Act, save that the exempted Charities may avail themselves of the Sixty-third and Sixty-fourth Sections of the said Act, if they shall think fit.

X. Nothing in this Act shall affect or be construed to affect the Churches or Chapels of the United Church of England and Ireland, or the Celebration of Divine Service according to the blished Church. Rites and Ceremonies of the said United Church by Ministers of

Certificate of Place having been certified to be given.

Sums received by Registrar General to be accounted for, and Expenses defrayed as other Expenses of General

Register Office.

To remove
Doubts as to
Validity of
Marriage.

such Church, in any Place hitherto used for such Purpose, or being now or hereafter duly consecrated or licensed by any Archbishop or Bishop or other Person lawfully authorized to consecrate or license the same.

XI. The Registrar General, on Payment to him of a Fee of Two Shillings and Sixpence, shall, with respect to any Place certified to him as a Place of Meeting for Religious Worship, the Record whereof remains uncancelled, give to any Person demanding the same a Certificate, sealed or stamped with the Seal of the General Register Office, that at the Time or respective Times in such Certificate in that Behalf stated the Place therein described was duly certified and duly recorded as required by this Act, and that at the Date of such sealed or stamped Certificate the Record of such Certification remained uncancelled; and every such sealed or stamped Certificate, if tendered in Evidence upon any Trial or other judicial Proceeding in any Civil or Criminal Court, shall be received as Evidence of the said several Facts therein mentioned, without any further or other Proof of the same.

XII. All Sums to be received by or on account of the Registrar General in pursuance of this Act shall be accounted for and paid in manner directed by the said Act of the Seventh Year of King William the Fourth, "for registering Births, Deaths, and Marriages in England," with respect to Sums received by him or on his Account under the Provisions of that Act; and all Expenses incurred by the said Registrar General, or by any Superintendent Registrar, or Registrar, with his Sanction, and acting under his Direction or Authority, in carrying this Act into execution and making known its Provisions, shall be deemed to have been incurred in carrying on the Business of the General Register Office, and be defrayed accordingly.

XIII. Notwithstanding the Provisions of this or any other Act, all Marriages which heretofore have been had or solemnized in any Building which has been registered for the Solemnization of Marriages pursuant to the Provisions of an Act passed in the Sixth and Seventh Years of His late Majesty King William the Fourth, Chapter Eighty-five, but which may not have been certified as required by the Provisions of this or any other Act, shall be as

Places of Religious Worship Registration.

valid in all respects as if such Place of Worship had been so certified.

XIV. This Act shall not extend to Scotland or Ireland.

SCHEDULES referred to in the foregoing Act.

SCHEDULE A.

To the Registrar General of Births, Deaths, and Marriages in

I the undersigned (a)

the County of

England.

of

Extent of Act.

Directions for filling up this Schedule.

do hereby, under and by virtue
Year of Her Majesty

of an Act passed in the
Queen Victoria, intituled "An Act to amend the Law concerning
"the certifying and registering of Places of Religious Worship
" in England," certify that a certain Building known by the Name

situated at

in the County of

it is situate, and

the Rank or ProParty certifying. (6) If the Place before 30th June 1852, expunge

fession of the

was not so used

this and the fol-
lowing Line.
(c) If the Build-

of within the Superintendent Registrar's District of [was used (b) as a Place of Meeting for Religious Worship ing have not been before the 30th Day of June 1852 and] is intended to be used as previously used heretofore, (c) and will accordingly be forthwith used as a Place of ship, erase the Meeting for Religious Worship by a Congregation or Assembly of Words" as herePersons calling themselves (d)

(Signature of the Party certifying.)
(e)

of the Place of Meeting above described. ture the Word

SCHEDULE B.

To the Registrar General of Births, Deaths, and Marriages in

I, the undersigned being the Person or One of the Persons who certified or last certified [or being "the Trustee," or "One of the Trustees," or the "Owner," or Occupier," or "One of the Owners or Occupiers" (as the Case may be), of] a certain Building known by the Name [or a certain Dwelling House, &c. (as the Case in the County of

of

may be)] situate at
within the Superintendent Registrar's District of

[and being now resident within the same District], do hereby
declare and give you Notice, in pursuance of an Act passed in

(e) Insert on this
Line immediately
under the Signa-
"Minister,"
"Proprietor," "g
Trustee,' "Oc-
cupier," "an At-
tendant," or such
other Words as
will clearly show
the Connexion
subsisting be-
tween the Person
certifying and

the Place of
Meeting.

the

Certain Payments to cease.

Stamp Duties on Matriculation and on Admission to

the

Places of Religious Worship Registration.

Year of Her present Majesty, Chapter

that the aforesaid Building [or Dwelling House, &c.] which was 185 recorded by you

on the

Day of

as a Place of Meeting for Religious Worship by a Congregation
or Assembly of Persons calling themselves
[or by a
Congregation or Assembly of Roman Catholics, or of Persons
belonging to the Society of Friends, or of Persons professing the
Jewish Religion (as the Case may be)], has wholly ceased to be
used as a Place for public Religious Worship. Witness my Hand,
this
Day of
185

An Act to abolish certain Payments charged on the Consoli-
dated Fund in favour of the Provost and Fellows of Trinity
College, Dublin, and of certain Professors in the said
College; and to repeal the Stamp Duties payable on
Matriculations and Degrees in the University of Dublin.

[14th August 1855.]

WHEREAS by an Act passed in the Forty-first Year of His late Majesty King George the Third, Chapter Thirty-two, "for granting to His Majesty several Sums of Money for de6 66 fraying the Charge of certain permanent Services in that Part "of the United Kingdom called Ireland," it was enacted, that it should be lawful for the Lord High Treasurer and Under Treasurer of the Exchequer or the Commissioners of His 'Majesty's Treasury of that Part of the United Kingdom called 'Ireland, then or for the Time being, or any Three or more of them, by Warrant under their Hands, to order and direct that any Sum or Sums of Money not exceeding in One Year the Sums therein-after mentioned should be paid for the Purposes therein-after expressed; among which Sums were the following; that is to say, to the Provost and Fellows of Trinity College, ""Dublin, 358l. 16s. 11d. English Currency," " to the said Provost and Fellows, for the Professor of the French and German Languages "in the said College, 921. 6s. 2d. like Currency ;" and "to the "said Provost and Fellows, for the Professor of the Spanish and "Italian Languages in the said College, 9271. 6s. 2d. like Cur6 66 rency;" which several Sums are also by the said Act made 'payable out of and are charged on the Consolidated Fund of 6 Ireland, and are now charged on the Consolidated Fund of the 'United Kingdom :' 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, as follows:

I. That all the said Sums of Money by the said Act made payable to the said Provost and Fellows of Trinity College, Dublin, shall from and after the passing of this Act cease to be payable.

II. All Stamp Duties payable under the Act of the Session holden in the Fifth and Sixth Years of Her Majesty, Chapter Eighty-two, and the Act of the Fifty-fifth Year of King George

the

Trinity College (Dublin).

the Third, Chapter One hundred and eighty-four, or under any Degrees in other Act of Parliament, on the Admission or Matriculation of Dublin Univer any Person in the University of Dublin, and on the Admission of sity repealed. any Person to any Degree in the said University (whether conferred in the ordinary Course of the University or otherwise), or for the Registry or Entry, Testimonial or Certificate, of any such Admission, shall from and after the passing of this Act likewise cease to be payable.

CA P. LXXXIII.

An Act to continue certain Acts for regulating Turnpike
Roads in Ireland.
[14th August 1855.]

HEREAS certain Acts for making, amending, and repair

ing the Turnpike Roads in Ireland were, by an Act passed

in the Session of Parliament holden in the Fourth and Fifth Years 4 & 5 Vict. c. 6. of the Reign of Her present Majesty, amended and continued for

' a Time therein limited: And whereas the said Acts were fur

6

ther continued from Time to Time, save as especially excepted:

And whereas, under the Provisions of an Act of the last Session

of Parliament, the said Acts, save as therein excepted, are 17 & 18 Viet. further continued and will remain in force until the Thirty-first c. 42.

Day of July in the present Year, or, if Parliament be then sitting, until the End of the then Session of Parliament: And whereas it is expedient that the several Acts for making, amending, or repairing Turnpike Roads in Ireland should be further continued: Be it therefore 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, as follows:

I. Any Act for making, amending, or repairing any Turnpike Acts for makRoad or Roads in Ireland which will expire on the said Thirty- ing Turnpike first Day of July in the present Year, or at or before the End of Roads in Irethe present Session of Parliament, or before the Thirty-first Day land which will expire before of July One thousand eight hundred and fifty-six, shall be and the 31st July 1856 same is hereby continued, as amended by the said recited Act of continued, save the Fourth and Fifth Years of Her Majesty's Reign, until the those in Sche Thirty-first Day of July One thousand eight hundred and fifty- dule. six, or if Parliament be then sitting until the End of the then Session of Parliament, save the several Acts for repairing, making, or amending the Turnpike Trust Roads comprised in the " Dublin and other Roads Turnpikes Abolition Act, 1855," and specified in the Schedule to this Act annexed.

Jan. 1856.

II. The several Acts for making, repairing, and amending the Certain Acts in several Turnpike Trust Roads comprised in the said "Dublin and Schedule conother Roads Turnpikes Abolition Act, 1855," and specified in the tinued to 5th Schedule to this Act annexed, shall be and the same are hereby respectively continued until the Fifth Day of January One thousand eight hundred and fifty-six.

III. Nothing herein contained shall prevent the Operation of Nothing to prethe said "Dublin and other Roads Turnpikes Abolition Act, vent Operation 18 & 19 VICT.

Y

1855,"