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THE STATUTES OF WALES
[A.D. 1838

of any clergyman not fully conversant with the Welsh language to any benefice with cure of souls in Wales in any parish the majority of the inhabitants of which do not understand the English language.

19. That all archdeacons throughout England and Wales shall have and exercise full and equal jurisdiction within their respective archdeaconries, any usage to the contrary notwithstanding.

A.D. 1837]
7 William 4, and 1 Victoria, c. 22, s. 23.

Provision for Marriages in the Welsh Tongue.

23. And be it enacted, That the Registrar-General, under the direction of one of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, shall take order that the solemn declaration and form of words provided to be used in the case of marriages under the said act for marriages be truly and exactly translated in the Welsh Tongue, and shall cause the same so translated to be furnished to every Registrar of Marriages throughout Wales, and in all places where the Welsh Tongue is commonly used; and it shall be lawful to use the Declaration and form of words so translated, and published by authority in all places where the Welsh Tongue is commonly used or preferred, in such manner and form and to the same intents and purposes as by the said Act is prescribed in the English Tongue.

A.D. 1838]
1 and 2 Victoria, c. 106, ss. 103, 104, 105.
An Act to abridge the holding of benefices in Plurality and to make better provision for the residence of the Clergy.

103. And whereas in many benefices in Wales and in the counties adjacent thereunto many of the inhabitants are imperfectly or not at all instructed in the English language, and it is expedient that persons to be hereafter instituted or licensed to such benefices should possess an adequate knowledge of the Welsh language: and whereas in and by an act passed in the session of parliament holden in the sixth and seventh years of his majesty's