224 C. 26. Anno nono Georgii II. A. D. 1736. charged, of, from and againft all Penalties, Forfeitures, Incapacities and Difabilities incurred or to be incurred for or by reafon of any former Neglect or Omilfion of taking or fubfcribing the faid Oaths or AlTurance, or receiving the faid Sacrament, or making or fubfcribing the faid Declaration refpectively, according to the above mentioned Acts, or any of them, or any other Act or Acts concerning Perfons in Offices or Places of Truft, and is and are and fhall be fully and actually recapacitated and reftored to the fame State and Condition, as fuch Perfon and Perfons were in before fuch Neglect or Omiffion, and lhall be deemed and adjudged to have duly qualified, him, her or themfelves, according to the above and their Afls mentioned Acts, and every of them, and that all Acts done or to be done by any fuch Perfon or Per- valid. fons, or by Authority derived from him or them, are and (hall be of the lame Force and Validity as the fame, or any of them, would have been, if fuch Perfon or Perfons had taken and fubfcribed the faid Oaths and AlTurance, and received the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper, and made and fubfcribed the faid Declaration refpectivelv, according to the Direction of the faid Acts, and every of them ; and that fuch Perfon or Perfons qualifying themfelves in the Manner and within the Time appointed by this Act, (hall be to all Intents and Purpofes as effectual as if fuch Perfon or Perfons had refpectively taken and fubfcribed the laid Oaths and AlTurance, and received the laid Sacrament, and made and fubfcribed the faid Declaration, within the Time and in the Manner appointed by the feveral Acts before mentioned. This as not II. Provided always, That this Act, or any thing herein contained, (hall not extend, or be conftrued toredoreto to extend, to reftore or intitle any Perfon or Perfons to any Office or Employment, Benefice, Matter aire d*"' &C d or Thing whatfoever, already actually avoided by Judgment of any of his Majefty's Courts of Record, or enjoyecMjy ' or already filled up or enjoyed by another Perfon ; but fuch Office, Employment, Benefice, Matter or another Perfon. Thing fo avoided, or filled up and enjoyed as aforefaid, fhall be and remain in and to the Perfon or Perfons who is or are now intitled to die fame, as if this Act had never been made. The indemnify- ' III. And whereas the Time for taking and fubfcribing the Oaths appointed to be taken and fub- i" 5 c A - a " Ge °' f cr 'bed by Perfons on account of their Offices, Places, Employments or Profeflions, or on any other Caufe, in and by the faid Act made in the firft Year of the Reign of his late Majefty King George the Firft, is, by an Act made in the fecond Year of the Reign of his jprefent Majefty, intituled, An within the of an Act Perfons t$ !i for fuch 'Qualifications; as'alfo for the Repeal of fo much of an Ad paffed in the thirtieth Year of the Reign of ' King Charles the Second, as relates to the fworn Servants of the King's or Queen's Majefty, limited ' to any Time before the End of the next Term, after he or they fhall be admitted into or enter upon
- any fuch Preferment, Benefice, Office or Place, or come into any fuch Capacity, or take upon him or
f them fuch Practice, Employment or Bufinefs, as is therein mentioned, or to any Time before the ' End of the next Quarter-Seflions of the County, City or Place where fuch Perfon fhall be or refide,
- after he or they lhall be admitted into, or enter upon any fuch Preferment, Benefice, Office or
' Place, or come into any fuch Capacity, or take upon him or them fuch Practice, Employment or ' Bufinefs as is therein mentioned : And whereas by the faid Act made in the twenty-fifth Year of the
- Reign of King Charles the Second, the refpective Perfons therein mentioned are required to make
•* and fublcribe the Declaration againft Tranfubftantiation in the next Term, or at the Quarter-Seffi- ' ons for that County or Place where he or they lhall refide, next after his or their Admittance or
- Admittances into the refpective Offices or Employments therein mentioned, which Times fo limited
' in the faid feveral Acts are found to be too fhort and inconvenient;' Now for Remedy thereof, and for amending the faid Acts by enlarging the faid Times, Be it enacted by tire Authority aforefaid, That all and every Perfon and Perfons that fhall be admitted, entred, placed or taken into any Office or Offices, Civil or Military, or fhall receive any Pay, Salary, Fee or Wages, by reafon of any Patent or Grant from his Majefty,' his Heirs or SuccefTors, or by his Authority, or by Authority derived from him or them within that Part of Great Britain called England, or in his Majefty's Navy, or in the fewral Illands of 'Jerfey and Guernfey, or that fhall be admitted into any Service, Office or Employ- ment in the Houfnofd or Family of his Majefty, or her Majefty, or of his Royal Highnefs Frederick Prince of JVales, or of any of his Majefty's IfTue, and all Ecclefiaftical Perfons, Heads or Governors of what Denomination foever, and all other Members of Colleges and Halls within either of the Uni- verfities of Oxford or Cambridge, that are or fhall be of the Foundation, or that do or lhall enjoy any Exhibition, being of, or as foon as they lhall attain the Age of eighteen Years, and all Perfons teach- ing or reading to Pupils in either of the aforefaid Univerfities or elfewhere, and Schoolmafters and Ulhers, and all Preachers and Teachers of feparate Congregations, high and chief Conftables, and every Perfon who fhall act as Serjeant at Law, Counfellor at Law, Barrifter, Advocate, Attorney, So- licitor, Proctor, Clerk, or Notary, by practifing in any Manner as fuch in any Court or Courts what- foever, within that Part of Great Britain called England, who fhall at any Time after the firft Day of Augujl in the Year of our Lord one thoufand feven hundred and thirty-fix, be admitted into, or enter All Perfons ad- upon, any of the aforementioned Preferments, Benefices, Offices or Places, or fhall come into any Preferrnents o7 lucn Capacity, or lhall take upon him or them any fuch Practice, Employment or Bufinefs as afore- Piaces after faid, lhall take and fubfcribe the Oaths appointed by the Statute made in the firft Year of the Reign t Au i'» I7 h i6 ' °^ ^ ate M a J eu y King George the Firft, in fuch Form as by that Statute is directed, in his Ma- Oaths, e &c jefty's Court of Chancery, King's Back, Common Pleas or Exchequer, or at the General or Quarter within fix Seflions of the County, City or Place where fuch Perfon fhall be or refide, at any Time within fix Ca- Admur afWr kndar Months after he or they lhall be admitted into, or enter upon any fuch Preferment, Benefice,
