8. Registration to be conclu of Marriage. had been resident as hereinbefore required: Provided always, That such special license shall be of no force unless the same shall be acted upon within Eight clear Days after the date of the same. 5 And be it Enacted, That in all cases the registration of Marsive Evidence riage by the parties contracting the Marriage signing the register, or by the transmission to the Registrar of a certificate of the solemnization under the hand of the Clergyman who celebrated the same, signed also by the persons so solemnizing their Marriage, and by Two Witnesses present at the solemnization thereof, shall be conclusive evidence that the parties registering their Marriage were married par- 10 ties at the time of completing such registration. 9. Marriage of Jews and Quakers not affected. 10. Nothing here- Marriage or 11. Marriage by Parties under legal Disability not valid. 12. Alteration of Act. Provided always, and be it Enacted, That nothing herein contained shall affect the validity of any Marriage between the parties both of whom are of the Jewish religion, where such Marriage has been solemnized according to the rites and forms observed by persons 15 professing the Jewish religion, or the validity of any Marriage between parties both of whom are Quakers, where such Marriage has been solemnized by the rites or forms observed by the Society of Friends commonly called Quakers. And be it Enacted, That nothing herein contained shall affect or 20 impair the validity of any Marriage, or the effect of any claim of Marriage, existing or competent previous to the passing of this Act, or in anywise affect the legitimation of any child or children by Marriage of the parents of such child or children subsequent to the birth of such child or children. Provided always, and be it Enacted, That nothing herein contained shall be held to render valid any Marriage where both or either of the parties thereto are or is under any legal impediment or disability to the contraction of such Marriage. And be it Enacted, That this Act may be amended or repealed by any Act to be passed during the present Session of Parliament. 25 Α BILL To amend the Laws relating to the Relief and Support, in certain Cases, of Merchant Seamen, their Widows and Children. [Note.-The Words printed in Italics are proposed to be inserted in the Committee.] 5 W HEREAS an Act was passed in the twentieth year of Preamble: the reign of his Majesty King GEORGE the Second, inti- 20 G. 2, c. 38. tuled, " An Act for the Relief and Support of Maimed and Disabled Seamen, and the Widows and Children of such as shall be killed, slain or drowned in the Merchant Service;" and which Act is hereinafter referred to as the Merchant Seamen's Fund Act: c. 52. And whereas an Act was passed in the Session of Parliament held in the fourth and fifth years of the reign of his late Majesty 4 & 5 W. 4, King WILLIAM the Fourth, intituled, "An Act to amend an Act of 10 the twentieth year of his Majesty King GEORGE the Second, for the Relief and Support of Sick, Maimed and Disabled Seamen, and the Widows and Children of such as shall be killed, slain or drowned in the Merchant Service, and for other Purposes;" and which is hereinafter referred to as the Merchant Seamen's Fund Amendment 15 Act; and the said Acts have been found insufficient, and it is expedient to make new provision in lieu thereof, for the purposes of the said Acts, or some of them: And whereas the Master, Wardens and Assistants of the Guild, Fraternity or Brotherhood of the most glorious and undivided Trinity 20 and of Saint Clement, in the parish of Deptford Strond, in the county of Kent, has from a remote period been constituted for (amongst other public purposes) the relief of poor Mariners, their widows and orphans, and has existed during several centuries and still continues 1. Repeal of 20 G. 2, c. 38; Second Proviso. 2. President and Governors, and Outport Trustees to transfer and pay over their Funds and Monies to the to be a corporation under the denomination of the Corporation of the Trinity House of Deptford Strond: And whereas it is expedient that the Merchant Seamen's Fund and the management thereof should, subject to the provisions of this Act, be transferred to and vested in the said Corporation of the Trinity House as trustees thereof; 5 BE it therefore Enacted, by The QUEEN's most Excellent MAJESTY, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, THAT the said 10 Merchant Seamen's Fund Act and the said Merchant Seamen's Fund Amendment Act be hereby repealed: Provided always, That so much of an Act passed in the thirty-seventh year of his Majesty King GEORGE the Third, intituled, "An Act for preventing the Desertion of Seamen from British Merchant Ships trading to his 15 Majesty's Colonies and Plantations Abroad," as was repealed by the said recited Act of the fourth and fifth WILLIAM the Fourth, shall stand repealed: Provided further, That all offences which shall have been committed, and all penalties and forfeitures which shall have been incurred, and all payments and duties to which any party shall 20 have become liable previous to the commencement of this Act, under the provisions of the said Acts, shall and may be punishable and recoverable under the said Acts as if the same had not been repealed, although such payments and duties shall not in consequence of such liability have become actually receivable until after 25 the passing of this Act: Provided also, That the President and Governors of the Corporation for the relief and support of sick, maimed and disabled Seamen, and of the Widows of such as shall be killed, slain or drowned in the Merchant Service, and the several bodies of trustees at the outports empowered by the 30 Merchant Seamen's Fund Amendment Act to receive, collect and apply the monies receivable by virtue of the said recited Act in the manner thereby directed, shall, notwithstanding the repeal thereof, retain the powers thereby vested in them, so far as may be necessary to enable them to perform such acts as are hereinafter directed 35 to be performed by them. And be it Enacted, That on or before the Thirty-first day of December, or at such other time or times as the said Corporation of the Trinity House of Deptford Strond shall by any writing or writings under their common seal direct, the said President and Governors, 40 and the said several bodies of trustees respectively shall transfer to the said Corporation of the Trinity House to a stock account to be opened in that behalf in the books of the Bank of England, intituled, |