The principal provisions of 6 & 7 Will. IV., c. 85, which was passed chiefly in ease of those who scrupled at joining in the services of the Established Church, are these :—Marriages may be solemnised on pro duction of the registrar's certificate, under the provisions of that Act, in like manner as after publication of banns (s. 1). In every case of marriage intended to be solemnised according to the rites of the Church of England, unless by licence or special licence, or after publi cation of banns, and in every case of marriage intended to be solemnised a000nling to the wages of the Quakers or Jews, or according to any form authorised by that Aot, one of the parties is to give notice acoord ing to the form imet out in the Aot, to the superintendent registrar of the district or each of the districts within which the parties have dwelt for seven days then next preceding, 'biting the name and surname, and the profession or condition, and the dwelling-place of each, and the time (nut less than seven days) during which each has dwelt therein, and the church or building in which the marriage is to be solemuised (s. 4).
After the expiration of seven days, if the marriage is to be solomniarad by licence (that is, from the surrogate, or officer of the ecclesiastical court), or of twenty-one days, if without licence, the superintendent registrar, upon request, is to ionic a certificate, provided no lawful impediment be shown, stating the particulars act forth in the notice, the day ou which it was entered, that the full period of seven days or of twenty-one days has elapsed since the entry of such notice, and that the issue of such certificate has not been forbidden by any authorised Person (a. 7). (This provision does not apply to marriages by licence celebrated according to the rites of the Church of England.) The like consent is required to a marriage solemnised by licence, as would have been required to marriages by licence before the passing of the Act (that is, by 4 Geo. IV., c. 76, as. 16 & 17); and every person whose consent to a marriage by licence is required by law is authorised to forbid the issue of the superintendent registrar's certificate (a. 10). Every super intendent registrar may grant licences for marriage in any building registered within any district under his superintendence, or in his office (a. II). Before any licence for marriage can be granted by a superintendent registrar, one of She parties must appear personally before him, and must, in case the notice of the intended marriage hae not been given to the same superintendent registrar, deliver to him the certificate of the superintendent registrar or registrars to whom such notice 1uta been given; and such parties must make oeth, affirmation, ur decimation, that he or she believes that there is not any Impediment of kindred or alliance, or other Lawful hindrance, to the marriage, and that one of the parties has for fifteen days immediately before the day of the grant of the licence (or rather the day of the making of the oath, ke.), had his or her usual place of abode within the district in which such marriage is to be solemnised; and where either party, not being a widower or widow, is under twenty-one, that the consent of the person or persons whose consent to such marriage is required by law has been obtained thereto, or that there is no person having authority to give such consent (a. 12). No marriage after notice, unless by
virtue of a licence by the superintendent registrar, is to be solemnised or registered until after the expiration of twenty-one days after entry of notice, and no marriage is to be solemnised by the licence of any super lotendent registrar, or registered, until after the expiration of seven days after the day of the entry of notice (s. 14). Whenever a marriage is not had within three calendar months after notice entered by the superintendent registrar, the notice and certificate, and any licence granted thereupon, and all other proceedings, become utterly void; and no person can proceed to solemnise the marring°, nor can any registrar register the same, until new notice, entry, and certificate (s. 15). The certificate of the superintendent (or superintendents) is to be delivered to the officiating minister, if the marriage is to be solemnised according to the rites of the Church of England ; and such certificate or licence is to be delivered to the registering officer of Quakers for the place where the marriage is solemnized, if the same shall be noleronized awarding to their usages; or to the officer of a synagogue by whom the marriage is registered, if to be solemnised according to the usages of persons professing the Jewish religion ; and in all other cases it is to be delivered to the registrar present at the marriage (e. 16).
Any proprietor, or trustee, of a separate building, certified, according to law, ae a place of religions worship, may apply to the superintend ent registrar, In order that such building mey be registered for solemnising marriages therein ; and in such cases lie ie to deliver to the superintendent registrar a certificate signed in duplicate by twenty householders, that such building has been used by them during one year as their usual place of public religious worship, and that they are desirous that tho plasm shall be registered ; each of which cer tificates is to be countersigned by the proprietor or trustee by whom the same Is to be delivered, and the superintendent registrar Is to send both certificates to the registrar-general, who is to register such building socordingly, and indorse on both certificates the date of the and to keep one oertificato with the other records of the gene iii register office, and to rutuni the other certificate to the superintend ent registrar, who is to keep the same with the other records of his office ; and the superintendent registrar is to enter the date of the registry of such building, and is to give a certificate of such registry under his hand, on parchment or vellum, to the proprietor or trustee by whom the certificates are countersigned, sod is to give public notice of the registry thereof, by advertisement In some newspaper circulat ing within the county and In the' leeadon Gazette' (it. 18).