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178] ANNUAL REGISTER 
guilty of uttering and publishing the bill, knowing the indorsement to be forged. 

Abstract of an Act for the better regulating the future Marriages of the Royal Family. 

TO guard effectually the descendants of his late majesty King George the Second (other than the issue of princesses who have married, or may hereafter marry into foreign families) from marrying without the approbation of his present majesty, his heirs or successors; it is hereby enacted, That no descendant of the body of his late majesty (other than the issue of princesses who have married, or may hereafter marry into foreign families) shall be capable of contracting matrimony without the previous content of his majesty, his heirs or successors, signified under the great seal, and declared in council, (which consent, to preserve the memory thereof, is to be set out in the license and regifter of marriage, and to be entered into the books of the privy-council ;) and that every marriage of any such descendant, without such consent, shall be void and null. It is also enacted, That in cafe any such descendant of George the Second, being above the age of tewenty-five years, shall persist in his or her resolution to contract a marriage disapproved of by the king, his heirs or successors; that then such descendant, upon giving notice to the king's privy-council, (which notice is to be entered in the books thereof) may, at any time from the expiration of twelve calendar months after such notice, contract such marriage; and his or her marriage with the person before proposed, and rejected, may be duly solemnized without the previous consent of his majesty, his heirs or successors; and such marriage shall be as good, as if this act had never been made, unless both Houses of Parliament shall, before the expiration of faid twelve months, expressly declare their disapprobation of such intended marriage. And it is further enated, That every person, who shall, knowingly, presume to solemnize or to assist at the celebration of any marriage with any duch descendant, or at his or her making any matrimonial contract, without such consent as aforesaid, except in the cafe above-mentioned, shall, being duly convicted thereof, incur and suffer the pains and penalties ordained and provided by the statute of provision and praemunire made in the sixteenth year of the reign of Richard the Second.

Clause extracted from an Act passed the last session of parliament, for regulating buildings, and for the better preventing of mischiefs by fire, within the cities of London and Westminster, and the liberties thereof.

WHEREAS many of the parishes within the limits aforesaid, have been frequently put to considerable expence, occasioned by the neglect of the inhabitants, as well lodgers and inmates as housekeepers, in not causing their chimnies to be duly swept, by means whereof alarms of fire are frequently made, to the great terror and danger of his majesty's subjects, which might,
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might, ought, and probably would be prevented, if such in habitants were obliged to defray, and bear the charges and expences attending such neglects, or some reasonable part thereof: Be it therefore enacted, That from and after the 24th day of June, 1772, in all cafes where any reward or rewards, or other recompence, by this act made payable, shall be borne and paid by the churchwarden or overseer of the poor, for, or on account of any fire being in a chimney only, or first beginning in, and occasioned by, the taking fire of any chimney only, the inhabitant or inhabitants, occupier or occupiers, of any room or apartment to which any such chimney shall belong, being a lodger or inmate to or with any tenant, renter, or holder of any house or building, wherein any such fire as last mentioned shall be, or shall first begin, shall reimburse and pay to the churchwarden or overseer of the poor, all and every such reward and rewards, or other payments, which shall have been by him or them made, pursuant to the directions of this act. --Magistrates, upon applications of the churchwardens or overseers, to examine witnesses upon oath and award; and if the sums so awarded are not paid within fourteen days after demand thereof made, the churchwardens or overseers, by warrant under the hand and seal of the magistrate, are impowered to levy the fame, by distress and sale of the goods and chattels of the party. The rewards made payable by this act are, to the turncock, who gives the first supply of water, ten shillings; the first engine, thirty shillings; second engine, twenty shillings; third engine, ten shillings.

Ceremonial of the Interment of her late Royal Highness the Princess Dowager of Wales, in the royal vault, in King Henry the VIIth's Chapel.

ON Friday night the 14th of February, 1772, the body of her late royal highness was privately conveyed from Carlton-House to the Princes-Chamber, in the House of Lords. The next evening, about half an hour after nine o'clock, the procession began to move, passing through the Old Palace-Yard to the fouth-eaft door of the abbey, upon a floor railed in, covered with black cloth, and under an awning, and lined on each fide with a party of the footguards, in the following order:

Knight Marshals men.
Servants in livery to her Royal Highness.
Gentlemen, servants to her Royal Highness.
Pages of the Presence.
Pages of the Back-Stairs.
Gentlemen Ushers Quarter Waiters.
Pages of Honour.
Gentlemen Ushers Daily Waiters.
Physicians and Chaplains.
Clerk of the Closet, and Equerries.
Clerks of the Houshold.
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Master

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