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Oaths and declaration to be taken by all preachers, &c. when thereto required by a magistrate.
19 Geo, 3. c. 44.
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5. Provided always, . . . that every person, not having taken the oaths and subscribed the declaration herein-after specified, who shall preach or teach at any place of religious worship certified in pursuance of the directions of this Act shall, when thereto required by any one justice of the peace, by any writing under his hand or signed by him, take and make and subscribe in the presence of such justice of the peace the oaths and declaration specified and contained in an Act passed in the nineteenth year of the reign of his Majesty King George the Third, intituled “An Act for the further relief of protestant dissenting ministers and schoolmasters”; and no such person who, upon being so required to take such oaths and make such declaration as aforesaid, shall refuse to attend the justice requiring the same, or to take and make and subscribe such oaths and declaraion as aforesaid, shall be thereafter permitted or allowed to teach or preach in any such congregation or assembly for religious worship, until he shall have taken such oaths and made such declaration as aforesaid, on pain of forfeiting for every time he shall so teach or preach any sum not exceeding ten pounds nor less than ten shillings, at the discretion of the justice convicting for such offence.
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