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CAP. XXIV.

An ACT to exclude certain description of Persons from serving as Representatives in General Assembly.

Passed the 11th of March, 1818.

Preamble.

 
WHEREAS it is expedient that Persons who are engaged as Spiritual Guides and Teachers in the profession of religious faith and worship, should abstain as much as possible from secular affairs;

Ministers of Religion, disqualified from being Members of the General Assembly.

 
I.   Be it therefore enacted by the Lieutenant Governor, Council, and Assembly, That from and after the passing of this Act, no Person shall be capable of being elected a Member to serve in Assembly, or of sitting and voting therein, who shall be a Minister of the Church of England, or of the Church of Scotland, or a Minister, Priest, Ecclesiastic, or Teacher, under any other form or profession of religious faith or worship whatever.

Suspending clause.

 
II.   And be it further enacted, That this Act shall not be in force until His Majesty's Royal approbation be thereunto had and declared.

 
 
[This Act was confirmed, finally enacted and ratified by an Order of the King in Council, dated the 6th of February, 1821, and was published and declared in the Province on the 12th of June, 1821.]

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C. 24. Anno LVIII. Geo. III.   A. D. 1818.


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