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No benefit by this act, unless by 1st January 1779, or previous to such lease, or 6 months after devise, descent, or limitation takes effect if in the kingdom, or after disability removed, the oath and declaration by 13 & 14 G. 3. c. 35. taken in one of the four courts, or sessions for Dublin, or judges of assize.
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III. Provided, That no papist or person professing the popish religion shall take any benefit by this act, unless he or she shall on or before the first day of January one thousand seven hundred and seventy nine, or some time previous to any such lease made to or in trust for him, if he or she shall be in this kingdom, or within six months after any devise, descent, or limitation shall take effect in possession, if at that time within this kingdom, or if then abroad beyond the seas, or under the age of twenty one years, or in prison, or of unfound mind, or under coverture, then within six months after his or her return from abroad, or attaining the age of twenty one years, or discharge from prison, or becoming of sound mind, or after the shall become a Some Sole, take and subscribe the oath of allegiance and the declaration prescribed by an act passed in this kingdom in the thirteenth and fourteenth years of his present Majesty’s reign entitled, An act to enable his Majesty’s subjects of whatever persuasion to testify their allegiance to him in some one of his Majesty’s four courts in Dublin, or at the quarter sessions of the peace for the county of Dublin, or before the going judges of assize in open court; which oath the judges presiding in the said court, the chairman of the said sessions, and the said judges of assize, are hereby empowered and required to administer.
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