The Marriage Confirmation Act 1860; An Act to remove Doubt as to the Validity of certain Marriages in Extra-parochial Places
WHEREAS by a Statute passed in the Twentieth Year of the Reign of Her present Majesty, entitled An Act to provide for the Relief of the Poor in Extra-parochial Places, it is enacted, that where any Extra-parochial Place has belonging to or within it any Church or Chapel of the Church of England, the Bishop of the Diocese within which such Church or Chapel shall be locally situate may, if he think fit, authorize by Writing under his Hand and Seal the Publication of Banns and the Solemnization ...