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To repeal so much of an Act passed in Ireland in the Fourth Year of King GEORGE the First, "for the better regulating the Town of Galway, and for strengthening "the Protestant Interest therein, as limits the Franchise "created by the said Act to Protestants only."

[Note:-The Words printed in Italics are proposed to be inserted in the Committee.]

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HEREAS an Act was passed by the Parliament of Ireland in the Fourth year of the reign of his late Majesty King George the First, intituled, "An Act for the better regulating the "Town of Galway, and for strengthening the Protestant Interest therein," in which it is amongst other things enacted, that all and every Person and Persons who profess him or themselves of any trade, mystery or handicraft, that do or shall come to inhabit, dwell or reside in the said Town of Galway, in order to follow their respective trades, shall and are hereby declared to be free of the Town and Corporation of Galway, and also of that Company and Corporation to which their respective trades belong, without paying any thing for their freedom, and shall continue Freemen of such Corporation or Company as long as he or they inhabit or dwell in the said Town, and no longer, and shall be exempted and freed from all Corporation taxes and fines for not serving 15 as Beadle, for the space of seven years next after his or their coming to

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inhabit in the said Town:

Preamble:

4G. 1, c. 15,

(I.) s. 5.

AND whereas it is further provided, that no Person or Persons are s. 6. to have the benefit of their freedoms aforesaid, unless he or they have been professed Protestants for seven years or upwards next before his or their demanding their freedoms pursuant to said Act, and shall also take the usual oaths of Freemen, and also the oaths of Allegiance, Supremacy, and Abjuration, and make and subscribe the Declaration against Transubstantiation :

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10 G. 4, c. 7.

AND whereas another Act was passed in the Tenth year of the reign of his late Majesty, intituled, "An Act for the Relief of His Majesty's "Roman Catholic Subjects," reciting that certain Disabilities are imposed on the Roman Catholic Subjects of His Majesty, to which other Subjects of His Majesty are not liable, and that it is expedient that such Restraints and Disabilities should be thenceforth discontinued:

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AND whereas it is expedient to amend the first hereinbefore recited Act, so as to place the Roman Catholics of the Town of Galway on an equality with His Majesty's other Subjects, as regarding the Freedom of the Town and Corporation of Galway, and of any Company and Cor- 10 poration therein;

BE it therefore Enacted, by The KING's most Excellent MAJESTY, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, Act of 4G. 1, and by the Authority of the same, THAT from and after the passing 15 of this Act, so much of the first hereinbefore recited Act as requires that Persons claiming their Freedom, or being admitted thereunto under the said Act, shall have been professed Protestants for Seven years or upwards next before their claiming their Freedom, shall be and the same is hereby Repealed.

in part Repealed.

Oath to be

taken by Per

their Free

dom.

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And be it further Enacted, That from and after the passing of this sons on taking Act, the Oath to be taken by any Roman Catholic who shall at any time claim or be admitted to the Freedom of the Town and Corporation of Galway, or of any Company or Corporation therein, under the Provisions of the first hereinbefore recited Act, shall, in addition to the 25 usual Oath of a Freeman, be the Oath set forth in the Act passed in the Tenth year of his late Majesty's reign, intituled, "An Act for the "Relief of His Majesty's Roman Catholic Subjects;" and that the said Oath, which the Mayor of the said town of Galway is hereby empowered and required to administer, shall be taken instead of the Oaths of Allegiance, Supremacy and Abjuration, and of the Declaration against Transubstantiation.

Empowering
Roman
Catholics to
take up their
Freedom, &c.

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And be it further Enacted, That any Roman Catholic Subject of His Majesty, who, under the words of the first herein before recited Act, would have been entitled to the Freedom of the Town and Corporation 35 of Galway, had he been a professed Protestant for Seven years or upwards next before the demand of his Freedom as aforesaid, shall be entitled thereto from and after the passing of this Act, without taking or subscribing the Oaths of Allegiance and Abjuration, or making and subscribing the Declaration against Transubstantiation, but shall, instead of the said Oaths and Declaration, take and subscribe the Oath set forth

forth in an Act of the Tenth year of his late Majesty's reign, intituled, An Act for the Relief of His Majesty's Roman Catholic

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Subjects;" which Oath shall be taken before the Mayor of the said Town of Galway, who is hereby empowered and required to administer the same.

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