An Act to amend the Acts relating to Marriages in England and Ireland, by extending certain Provisions thereof to Persons professing with the Society of Friends called Quakers.
WHEREAS by an Act passed in the Session holden in the Sixth and Seventh Years of the Reign of King William the Fourth, Chapter Eighty-five, intituled An Act for Marriages in England, it was enacted, that the Society of Friends, commonly called Quakers, might continue to contract and solemnize Marriage according to the Usages of the said Society, and every such Marriage was thereby declared and confirmed good in Law, provided that the Parties to such Marriage were both of the said Society; pro...