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and subscribed as aforesaid, is hereby required to make a due and proper Entry thereof in a Book to be kept for that Purpose in the said 13 Geo II. c. 7. Court; for the doing whereof two Shillings and no more shall be paid at each respective Place, under the Penalty and Forfeiture of ten Pounds of lawful Money of Great Britain for every Neglect or Omission: And in like Manner every Secretary of the Colony wherein any Person shall so take the said Oaths or Affirmation, and make, repeat, and subscribe the said Declarations respectively, as aforesaid, is hereby required to make a due and proper Entry thereof in a Book to be kept for that Purpose in his Office, upon Notification thereof to him by the Chief Judge or other Judge of the same Colony, under the like Penalty and Forfeiture for every such Neglect or Omission.

Each qualified Person to receive

and Jews.

20 Geo. II. c 44.

Provided always, and be it enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That no Person, of what Quality, Condition, or Place soever, other than and except such of the People called Quakers, as shall qualify the Sacrament. themselves and be naturalized by the Ways and Means herein before- except Quakers mentioned, or such who profess the Jewish Religion, shall be naturalized by virtue of this Act, unless such Person shall have received the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper in some Protestant and Reformed Congregation within this Kingdom of Great Britain, or within some of the said Colonies in America, within three Months next before h.. taking and subscribing the said Oaths, and making, repeating, and subscribing the said Declaration; and shall, at the Time of his taking and subscribing the said Oaths, and making, repeating, and subscribing the said Declaration, produce a Certificate signed by the Person administring the said Sacrament, and attested by two credible Witnesses, whereof an Entry shall be made in the Secretary's Office of the Colony, wherein such Person shall so inhabit and reside, as also in the Court where the said Oaths shall be so taken as aforesaid, without any Fee or Reward.

Jews taking the

sions.

III. And whereas the following Words are contained in the latter Part of the Oath of Abjuration, Videlicit, (upon the true Faith of a Christian,) And whereas the People professing the Jewish Religion may thereby be prevented from receiving the Benefit of this Act; Be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That whenever any Person professing the Jewish Religion shall present Oaths, may omit himself to take the said Oath of Abjuration in pursuance of this Act, some Expresthe said Words (upon the true Faith of a Christian) shall be omitted out of the said Oath in administring the same to such Person, and the taking and subscribing the said Oath by such Person professing the Jewish Religion, without the Words aforesaid, and the other Oaths appointed by the said Act in like Manner as Jews were peritted to take the Oath of Abjuration, by an Act made in the tenth Year of the Reign of his late Majesty King GEORGE the First, intituled, An Act for explaining and amending an Act of the last Session of Parliament, intituled, An Act to oblige all Persons, being Papists, in that Part of Great Britain called Scotland, and all Persons in Great Britain, refusing or neglecting to take the Oaths appointed for the Security of his Majesty's Person and Government, by several Acts herein mentioned, to register their Names and real Estates; and for enlarging the Time for taking the said Oaths, and making such Registers, and for allowing further Time for the Inrolment of Deeds or Wills made by Papists, which have been amitted to be enrolled pursuant to an Act of the third Year of his Majesty's Reign; and also for giving Relief to Protestant Lessees, shall be deemed a sufficient taking of the said Oaths, in order to intitle such Person to the Benefit of being naturalized by virtue of this Act.

IV. And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That a Testimonial or Certificate under the Seal of any of the said Colonies,

Certificates.

of any Persons having resided and inhabited for the Space of seven 13 Geo. II. c 7. Years or more as aforesaid within the said Colonies or some of them,

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to be specified in such Certificate, together with the particular Time of Residence in each of such respective Colonies (whereof the Colony under the Seal of which such Certificate shall be given to be One,) and of his having taken and subscribed the said Oaths, and of his having made, repeated, and subscribed the said Declaration; and in case of a Quaker, of his having made and subscribed the Declaration of Fidelity, and of his having taken and affirmed the Effect of the Abjuration Oath as aforesaid; and in the case of a Person professing This Clause is the Jewish Religion, of his having taken the Oath of Abjuration as extended by 20 aforesaid, within the same Colony, under the Seal whereof such Certificate shall be given as aforesaid, shall be deemed and taken to be a sufficient Testimony and Proof thereof, and of his being a naturalborn Subject of Great Britain, to all Intents and Purposes whatsoever, and as such shall be allowed in every Court within the Kingdoms of Great Britain and Ireland, and also in the said Colonies in America.

Geo. II. c. 44.

registered in

England;

V. And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That Secretary of the Colony to send every Secretary of the said respective Colonies for the Time being, over Lists, to be shall and is hereby directed and required at the End of every Year, to be computed from the said first Day of June in the Year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and forty, to transmit and send over to the Office of the Commissioners for Trade and Plantations kept in the City of London or Westminster, a true and perfect List of the Names of all and every Person or Persons who have in that Year intitled themselves to the Benefit of this Aet, under the Penalty on Penalty of and Forfeiture of fifty Pounds of lawful Money of Great Britain for every Neglect or Omission: All which said Lists so transmitted and sent over, shall from Year to Year be duly and regularly entered by the said Commissioners, in a Book or Books to be had and kept for that Purpose in the said Office, for public View and Inspection, as Occasion shall require.

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Proviso.

Unitas Fratium

c. 44.

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VI. Provided always, and it is hereby further enacted, That no Extended to the Person who shall become a natural-born Subject of this Kingdom by by 20 Geo. II. virtue of this Act, shall be of the Privy Council, or a Member of either House of Parliament, or capable of taking, having, or enjoying Geo. II. c. 45, & any Office or Place of Trust within the Kingdoms of Great Britain 19 Geo. II. c 5, or Ireland, either Civil or Military, or of having, accepting, or enabling his Ma jesty to taking any Graut from the Crown to himself, or to any other in Trust Commissions to a for him, of any Lauds, Tenements, or Hereditaments within the certain Number Kingdoms of Great Britain or Ireland; any Thing herein before testants to act in contained to the contrary thereof in any wise notwithstanding.

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20 Geo. II. c. 44.-An Act to extend the Provisions of an Act made in the thirteenth Year of his present Majesty's Reign, intituled, An Act for naturalizing such foreign Protestants, and others therein mentioned, as are settled, or shall settle in any of his Majesty's Colonies, in America, to other foreign Protestants who conscientiously scruple the taking of an Oath.

WHER

THEREAS by an Act made in the thirteenth Year of his present Majesty's Reign, intituled, An Act for nataralizing such foreign Protestants, and others therein mentioned, as are settled, or shall settle in any of his Majesty's Colonies in America;

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'it was enacted. That from and after the first Day of June in the Year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and forty, all 20 Geo. II. c 44'Persons born out of the Ligeance of his Majesty, his Heirs, or 'Successors, who had inhabited and resided, or should inhabit and reside for the Space of seven Years, or more, in any of his Majesty's *Colonies in America, and should not have been absent out of some of the said Colonies for a longer Space than two Months, at any one Time during the said seven Years, and should take and subscribe 'the Oaths, and make, repeat, and subscribe the Declaration

appointed by an Act made in the first Year of the Reign of his late 1 Geo. I. c. 13. Majesty King GEORGE the First, intituled, An Act for the further Security of his Majesty's Person and Government, and the Suc'cession of the Crown in the Heirs of the late Princess SOPHIA, being Protestants; and for extinguishing the Hopes of the pretended Prince of Wales, his open and secret Abettors; or being of the People called Quakers, should make and subscribe the Declaration of Fidelity, and take and affirm the Effect of the Abjuration Oath, appointed and prescribed by an Act made in the

eighth Year of the Reign of his said late Majesty, intituled, An Act 8 Geo. III. c. 13. for granting the People called Quakers, such Forms of Affirmation or Declaration, as may remove the Difficulties which many of ' them lie under; and also make and subscribe the Profession of his Christian Belief, appointed and prescribed by an Act made in the

c. 18.

first Year of the Reign of their late Majesties King WILLIAM and 1 W. & M. st. 1. 'Queen MARY, intituled, An Act for exempting their Majesties' Protestant Subjects from the Penalties of certain Laws, before the 'Chief Judge, or other Judge of the Colony wherein such Persons respectively had so inhabited and résided, or shall so inhabit and reside, should be deemed, adjudged and taken to be his Majesty's 'natural-born Subjects of this Kingdom, to all Intents, Constructions, and Purposes, as if they and every one of them, had been or were born within this Kingdom: And whereas many of the People of the Congregation called the Moravian Brethren, and other foreign Protestants, not Quakers, who conscientiously scruple the taking of 'an Oath, are settled in his Majesty's Colonies in America, and ' demean themselves there as a sober, quiet, and industrious People, and many others of the like Persuasion are desirous to transport 'themselves thither; and if the Benefit of the said Act, made in the thirteenth Year of his present Majesty's Reign, were extended to 'them, they who are now there would thereby be encouraged to 'continue their Residence in his Majesty's Colonies, and others would resort thither in greater Numbers, whereby the said Colonies would be improved, their Strength increased, and their Trade extended; ' 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, and by the Authority of the same, That from and after the twenty-fifth Day of Foreign Protes December one thousand seven hundred and forty-seven, all foreign tants Residents in Protestants, who conscientiously scruple the taking of an Oath, and America seven who are born out of the Ligeance of his Majesty, his Heirs or ple an Oath, upon Successors, who have inhabited and resided, or shall inhabit and making and subreside, for the Space of seven Years or more, in any of his Majesty's scribing the Affir Colonies in America, and shall not have been absent out of some of and Declaration; the said Colonies for a longer Space than two Months at any one Time during the said seven Years, and shall make and subscribe the Declaration of Fidelity, and take and affirm the Effect of the AbjuraLion Oath, appointed and prescribed by the said recited Act, made in the eighth Year of the Reign of his late Majesty King GEORGE the First, and also make and subscribe the Profession of his Christian

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Belief, appointed and prescribed by the said recited Act, made in the 20 Geo. II. c. 44. first Year of the Reign of their late Majesties King WILLIAM and Queen MARY, before the Chief Judge or other Judge of the Colony wherein such Persons respectively have so inhabited and resided, or to be deemed na shall so inhabit and reside, shall be deemed, adjudged, and taken to be his Majesty's natural-born Subjects of this Kingdom, to all Intents, Constructions, and Purposes, as if they and every of them had been or were born within this Kingdom; which said Affirmation and Subscription of the said Declaration, the said Chief or other Judge of every of the said respective Colonies, is hereby enabled and impowered to administer and take; and the taking of every such Affirmation, and the making and subscribing of every such Declaration, shall be in such Manner and Place, and at such Times and Hours, and such Entries made thereof, and for the same Fees, and under the same Penalties, as in the said recited Act of the thirteenth Year of his Majesty's Reign are mentioned; and Lists of the Persons who shall take the Benefit of this Act, shall be transmitted to the Commissioners of Trade and Plantations, in like Manner, and under the same Penalties, as Lists of the Persons taking the Benefit of the said Act are thereby directed to be transmitted.

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ment.

II. Provided always, and be it enacted by the Authority aforetaking the Sacra said, That no Person shall be naturalized by virtue of this Act, unless such Person shall have received the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper, in some Protestant or Reformed Congregation, within some of the said Colonies in America, within three Months next before his taking such Affirmation, and making and subscribing such Declaration, aud shall at the Time of his taking such Affirmation and making and Certificate and subscribing such Declaration, produce a Certificate, signed by the Entry thereof to Person administring the said Sacrament, and attested by two credible Witnesses, whereof an Entry shall be made in the Secretary's Office of the Colony wherein such Person shall so inhabit and reside, as also in the Court where the said Affirmation shall be so taken as aforesaid, without any Fee or Reward.

be made.

Provisions of Act

III. And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That 13 Geo II. with the Provisions contained in the said Act, made in the thirteenth Year regard to Certifi- of his present Majesty's Reign, with regard to Certificates of Resicates, &c. extend- dence, and of having made and subscribed the said Declaration, and ed to such foreign taken the said Affirmation, and as to such Certificates being made

Protestants.

Privileges of na

ural-born Subjects, &c.

Restrictions,

Persons excluded
from this or
13 Ges. II.

Evidence in the Courts of Great Britain and Ireland, and also in the said Colonies, and all other the Benefits of the said Act, shall extend to foreign Protestants, who conscientiously scruple the taking of an Oath, and who shall be qualified as aforesaid.

IV. Provided always, That the said foreign Protestants shall enjoy the Privileges of natural-born Subjects, and all the Benefits of this Act, and the said Act of the thirteenth Year of his Majesty's Reign.

V. Provided always, and be it hereby further enacted, That no Person who shall become a natural-born Subject of this Kingdom, by virtue of this Act, shall be of the Privy Council, or a Member of either House of Parliament, or capable of taking, having, or enjoying any Office or Place of Trust within the Kingdoms of Great Britain or Ireland, either Civil or Military, or of having, accepting, or taking any Grant from the Crown to himself, or to any other in Trust for him, of any Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments, within the Kingdoms of Great Britain or Ireland; any Thing herein before contained to the contrary thereof in any wise notwithstanding.

VI. Provided also, and it is hereby further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That nothing in this Act, or in the said recited Act of the thirteenth Year of his Majesty's Reign contained, shall

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extend, or be construed to extend to naturalize any Person or Persons whatsoever, who by virtue of an Act made in the fourth Year of his 13 Geo. II. c. 44. Majesty's Reign, (intituled, An Act to explain a Clause in an Act 4 Geo. II. c. 21. made in the seventh Year of the Reign of her late Majesty Queen ASSE, for naturalizing foreign Protestants, which relates to the Children of natural-born Subjects of the Crown of England, or of Great Britain) are declared and enacted not to be intitled to the Benefit of the said Act of the seventh Year of her said late Majesty's Reign, but that all such Persons shall be and remain in the same State, Plight and Condition, to all Intents, Constructions, and Purposes whatsoever, as they would have been in, if the said recited Act of the thirteenth Year of his Majesty's Reign, or this Act, had never been made any Thing in this Act, or in the said recited Act of the thirteenth Year of his Majesty's Reign contained to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding.

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? Geo. III. c. 25.-An Act for Naturalizing such foreign Protestants as have served, or shall serve for the Time therein mentioned, as Officers or Soldiers in his Majesty's Royal American Regiment, or as Engineers in America.

WHEREAS an A Majesty King Georges the Second,

HEREAS by an Act made in the thirteenth Year of the 2 Geo. III. c. 25.

Acts,
13 Geo. II. c. 7.

tituled, An Act for naturalizing such foreign Protestants, and Preamble reciting others therein mentioned, as are settled or shall settle in any of his 'Majesty's Colonies in America; all Persons born out of the Ligeance of his Majesty, his Heirs, or Successors, who shall have inhabited and resided, or shall inhabit or reside, for the Space of seven Years, or more, in any of his Majesty's Colonies in America, or shall not 'have been absent out of the said Colonies, for a longer Space than two Months at any one Time during the said seven Years, are, upon the Conditions prescribed by the said Act, naturalized and made 'Partakers of all the Benefits and Privileges which the natural-born 'Subjects of this Realm do enjoy, other than such as are specified in 'a Proviso in the said Act contained. And whereas Commissions have been granted to a certain number of foreign Protestants in 'America, in pursuance of a Power given by a subsequent Act of the twenty-ninth Year of the Reign of his late Majesty King 'GEORGE the Second, intituled, An Act to enable his Majesty to and 9 Geo. II. 'grant Commissions to a certain Number of foreign Protestants, c. 5. who have served abroad as Officers or Engineers, to act and rank as Officers or Engineers in America only, under certain Restrictions and Qualifications; which said Officers have been very useful to 'his Majesty's Service, by the raising of a great Number of Men, and training them to discipline as Soldiers: And whereas several of the 'said Officers, since the passing of the above recited Acts, have purchased Estates in America, by which, as well as by their faithful 'Services, they have given the strongest Assurances of their Attach'ment and Fidelity to his Majesty's Government: And whereas it is 'just to reward the past Services of the said Officers and Soldiers, and to give Encouragement for their future good Conduct; and it is likewise expedient to add inducements to such foreign Protestants 'as have settled, or may hereafter settle, in America, to engage in his 'Majesty's Service;' Be it therefore enacted by the King's most

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