Marriage Registry Amendment, 1814
Statutes of New Brunswick. 54 George III, Chapter 12
(Passed March 7, 1814)



 
 

Anno Regni, GEORGIII [sic] III Regis, Quinquagesimo
Quarto.
AT the General Assembly of the Province of New Brunswick, begun and holden
at Fredericton, on the twenty-seventh day of January, in the year of our Lord,
one thousand eight hundred and ten, in the fiftieth year of the Reign of our said
Sovereign Lord George the Third, by the Grace of God of the United Kingdom
of Great Britain and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, &c. ; and from thence
continued by several Prorogations, to Tuesday the eleventh day of January, one
thousand eight hundred and fourteen ; being the Fourth Session of the Fifth Ge-
neral Assembly convened in the said Province.
CAP. XII.

An Act, in addition to an Act, intituled " An Act more effectually to provide
for the Public Registering of all Marriages solemnized within this Province.


Passed the 7th of March, 1814.
" WHEREAS by an Act, made and passed in the fifty-second year of His
" Majesty's Reign, intituled " An Act more effectually to provide for
" the public Registering of all Marriages solemnized within this Province," it is
" enacted as follows, viz. : " That from and after the first day of May next, all
" Marriages shall be solemnized in the presence of two or more credible witnesses
" besides the Minister or person who shall celebrate the same; and that immedi-
" ately after the celebration of every Marriage, a certificate thereof shall be made,
" in which it shall be expressed that the said Marriage was celebrated by banns
" or license, and if both or either of the parties named by license, be under age,
" with the consent of parents or guardians, as the case may be, and shall be signed
" by the said Minister or other persons so celebrating the same, with his proper
" hand, and also by the parties named, and attested by such two witnesses," which
" certificate is in and by the said in part recited Act, to be transmitted, within
" two months, to the Clerk of the Peace of the County in which such Marriage
" shall be solemnized, under a certain penalty therein named : And whereas it
" has in several instances happened that persons solemnizing Marriages, have been
" prevented from transmitting the Certificates of Marriages by them celebrated,
" in consequence of the refusal of the persons married to sign the Certificate of
" Marriage ; for remedy whereof,"

    Be it enacted by the President, Council and Assembly, That every person who
shall hereafter be married, shall, immediately after the celebration of the Marriage
ceremony, sign the Certificate prescribed in and by the said in part recited Act,
as therein and thereby prescribed under the penalty of twenty pounds, for the use
of His Majesty, to be recovered, with costs of suits, by bill, plaint, or information,
in the Supreme Court of Judicature.

Transcriber's Remarks

The short title was not part of the original. It was added by the transcriber. Berton's marginal notes and footnotes have been omitted.

Transcribed by Craig Walsh.
October 2001.

Disclaimer: I have provided this transcription for its historical interest. It should not be considered an official or legal copy of the act.

Source
New Brunswick. Acts of the General Assembly of Her Majesty's Province of New Brunswick from the Twenty Sixth Year of the Reign of King George the Third to the Sixth Year of the Reign of King William the Fourth. Edited by George F. S. Berton. Printed by John Simpson, Queen's Printer, Fredericton. 1838. pp. 213 - 214.
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This page was prepared by Craig Walsh.
First Posted 7 October 2001.