Majesty's Pleasure shall be otherwise declared, continue (within their several Places and Counties where they are now entitled to exercise such Office) to have, in Person only, and not by Deputy, the same Rank, Name of Office, and the same Privileges, Fees, and Emoluments, which by any Law or Custom they have hitherto enjoyed and held within their respective Counties, save and except such Fees as would necessarily cease with the Abolition of the Courts and Jurisdictions abolished by this Act. 39. And be it enacted, That this Act shall, as to all Matters not otherwise provided for, commence and take effect upon and from the Twelfth Day of October in this present Year. A.D. 1832] 2-8 William 4, c. 45, ss. 4, 8, 9, 10, 15, 82. AN ACT TO AMEND THE REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE IN ENGLAND AND WALES. 4. "New Boroughs hereafter to return One Member." And be it enacted, that each of the Places named in the Schedule marked (D) to this Act annexed, (that is to say,) . . . and Merthyr Tydfil, shall for the Purposes of this Act be a Borough, . . . and shall from and after the End of this present Parliament return One Member to serve in Parliament. 8. "Places in WALES to have a share in Elections for Shiretowns." And be it enacted, That each of the Places named in the First Column of the Schedule (E) to this Act annexed shall have a Share in the Election of a Member to serve in all future Parliaments for the Shire-town or Borough which is mentioned in conjunction therewith and named in the Second Column of the said Schedule (E). 9. "Boundaries of Shire-towns and Places in WALES to be settled." And be it enacted, That each of the Places named in the First Column of the said Schedule (E), and each of the Shire-towns or Boroughs named in the Second Column of the said Schedule (E), and the Borough of Brecon, shall for the Purposes of this Act include the Place or Places respectively which shall be comprehended within the Boundaries of each of the said Places, Shiretowns, and Boroughs respectively, as such Boundaries shall be settled and described by an Act to be passed for that Purpose in this present Parliament, which Act, when passed, shall be deemed and taken to be Part of this Act as fully and effectually as if the same were incorporated herewith. 10. "Swansea, Loughor, Neath, Aberavon and Kenfig to form one Borough, and Electors thereof not to vote for a Member for Cardiff." And be it enacted, that each of the Towns of Swansea, Loughor, Neath, Aberavon, and Kenfig shall for the Purposes of this Act include the Place or Places respectively which shall be comprehended within the Boundaries of each of the said Towns, as such Boundaries shall be settled and described by an Act to be passed for that Purpose in this present Parliament, which Act, when passed, shall be deemed and taken to be Part of this Act as fully and effectually as if the same were incorporated herewith; and that the said Five Towns, so including as aforesaid, shall for the Purposes of this Act be One Borough, and shall as such Borough, from and after the End of this present Parliament, return One Member to serve in Parliament; and that the Portreeve of Swansea shall be the Returning Officer for the said Borough; and that no Person by Reason of any Right accruing in any of the said Five Towns, shall have any Vote in the Election of a Member to serve in any future Parliament for the Borough of Cardiff. 15. "Certain Counties to return Two Knights of the Shire." And be it enacted, That in all future Parliaments there shall be... Two Knights of the Shire, instead of One, to serve for each of the Counties of Carmarthen, Denbigh and Glamorgan. 32. "Provision as to the Freemen of Swansea, Loughor, Neath, Aberavon and Kenfig. ... Provided also, that every Person who would have been entitled, if this Act had not been passed, to vote as a Burgess or Freeman of Swansea, Loughor, Neath, Aberavon, or Kenfig, in the Election of a Member to serve in any future Parliament for the Borough of Cardiff, shall cease to vote in such Election, and shall instead thereof be entitled to vote as such Burgess or Freeman in the Election of a Member to serve in all future Parliaments for the Borough composed of the Towns of Swansea, Loughor, Neath, Aberavon and Kenfig, subject always to the Provisions herein-before contained with regard to a Burgess or Freemen of any Place sharing in the Election for any City or Borough. A.D. 1836] 6 and 7 William 4, c. 77, ss. 11, 19. AN ACT FOR CARRYING INTO EFFECT THE REPORTS OF THE COMMISSIONERS APPOINTED ΤΟ CONSIDER THE STATE OF THE ESTABLISHED CHURCH IN ENGLAND AND WALES, ETC., ETC. After reciting the reports of the said Commissioners it was enacted— II. That the said Commissioners shall prepare, and lay before His Majesty in Council, such scheme as shall appear to the said Commissioners to be best adapted for preventing the appointment of any clergyman not fully conversant with the Welsh language to any benefice with cure of souls in WALES in any parish the majority of the inhabitants of which do not understand the English language. 19. That all archdeacons throughout England and WALES shall have and exercise full and equal jurisdiction within their respective archdeaconries, any usage to the contrary notwithstanding. A.D. 1837] 7 William 4, and 1 Victoria, c. 22, s. 23. PROVISION FOR MARRIAGES IN THE WELSH TONGUE. 23. And be it enacted, That the Registrar-General, under the direction of one of Her MAJESTY'S Principal Secretaries of State, shall take order that the solemn declaration and form of words provided to be used in the case of marriages under the said act for marriages be truly and exactly translated in the WELSH TONGUE, and shall cause the same so translated to be furnished to every Registrar of Marriages throughout WALES, and in all places where the WELSH TONGUE is commonly used; and it shall be lawful to use the Declaration and form of words so translated, and published by authority in all places where the WELSH TONGUE is commonly used or preferred, in such manner and form and to the same intents and purposes as by the said Act is prescribed in the English Tongue. A.D. 1838] 1 and 2 Victoria, c. 106, ss. 103, 104, 105. AN ACT TO ABRIDGE THE HOLDING OF BENEFICES In Plurality RESIDENCE OF 103. And whereas in many benefices in WALES and in the counties adjacent thereunto many of the inhabitants are imperfectly or not at all instructed in the English language, and it is expedient that persons to be hereafter instituted or licensed to such benefices should possess an adequate knowledge of the WELSH language: and whereas in and by an act passed in the session of parliament holden in the sixth and seventh years of his majesty's |