which the Caveat is founded; the Superintendent-Registrar shall not issue or grant any Certificate or Licence until he has examined into the matter, and is satisfied that it ought not to obstruct the grant of them, or until the Caveat be withdrawn.

If the Superintendent-Registrar doubt about the matter, he may refer it to the Registrar-General in London; or if the Superintendent-Registrar refuse the Certificate or Licence, the party applying for the same may appeal to the RegistrarGeneral, who, in either case, will decide upon it.

It will be observed, that the right to "forbid " is confined to persons "authorized," (sec. 9,) while the right to enter a "Caveat" may be exercised by "any person on payment of five shillings;" (sec. 13;) but any person entering a Caveat afterwards declared by the Registrar-General to be frivolous, is liable to the Costs of the proceedings, and to an action for damages by the party against whose Marriage such frivolous Caveat was entered. (Sec. 37.)

Knowingly and wilfully making any false Declaration, or signing any false Notice or Certificate required by the Act, for the purpose of procuring any Marriage, renders the Offender liable to suffer the Penalties of Perjury. (Sec. 38.)

It may also be proper, as a further caution, to state, that if any party to a Marriage succeeds in obtaining a valid Marriage by any wilfully-false notice, certificate, or declaration, the guilty party is liable to forfeit all property accruing from the Marriage. (Sec. 43, and see stat. 4 Geo. IV. c. 76.)

SECTION IV.

THE SOLEMNIZATION OF THE MARRIAGE.

ALL the preliminary matters having been arranged, it remains to consider the actual solemnization of the Marriage.

1. The Place. The Marriage must be solemnized, not only in a duly Registered Chapel, but also in the particular Registered Chapel named in the Superintendent-Registrar's Marriage Certificate or Licence, and in no other place. (Sec. 20.)

2. The Time. The Marriage must be solemnized within three

Calendar Months from the day on which Notice was entered by the Superintendent-Registrar; (sec. 15 ;) and between the hours of eight and twelve in the forenoon. (Sec. 20.)

3. The Form and Manner of the Marriage. The Marriage must be with open doors, between eight and twelve o'clock in the forenoon.

Some REGISTRAR of the District in which the Chapel wherein the Marriage is to be solemnized is situate, and two or more credible witnesses, besides the Minister who performs the ceremony, must be present.

Sufficient previous notice of the time and place of the intended Marriage should be given to the Minister who is to officiate at the Marriage, and to the Registrar, to enable them punctually to attend. Attention to this point is obviously necessary, to prevent delay to the parties, and inconvenience to the Minister and the Registrar.

The Registrar will take with him his Marriage-Register Book, and also pen and ink ready for writing therein.

The Parties, Witnesses, Minister, and Registrar, having met at the appointed place, the Registrar will require that the Marriage Licence, or, if the Marriage be not by Licence, then the Marriage Certificate, be delivered to him; which being done, he will examine it to see that it contains,

1. The Signature of the Superintendent-Registrar.

2. The Names of the Parties then appearing in order to be married. 3. The Name of the Chapel in which the Marriage is to be solemnized.

If the Marriage is to be by Certificate and not by Licence, and the Parties dwell in different Districts, two Certificates, one from the Superintendent-Registrar of each District, must be delivered to the Registrar. (Sec. 16.)

The Registrar must then allow the Marriage to be solemnized; and the Minister present will commence the Ceremony according to the Formulary set forth by order of the Wesleyan Conference, with which the Registrar may not in any manner interfere further than to take care,

1. That during the Ceremony the Chapel-doors be not so closed as to prevent the admission of any one wishing to enter.

2. That the time be between eight and twelve in the forenoon. 3. That, in some part of the Ceremony, each of the Parties shall, in his presence and in the presence of two or more credible witnesses, say,

"I do solemnly declare, that I know not of any lawful impediment why I, A. B., [naming himself or herself] may not be joined in Matrimony to C. D. [ naming the other party ]." (Sec. 20.)

Also that each of the Parties shall say to the other,

"I call upon these persons here present to witness that I, A. B., [naming himself or herself] do take thee, C. D., [ naming the other party] to be my lawful wedded wife [or husband ]."

If this solemn declaration and form of words, or either of them, be omitted from the Ceremony, it will not be a Marriage; and the Registrar must not on any account register as a Marriage any Ceremony from which those words have been omitted; but when both or one of the Parties shall be Welch, and unable to speak English, the following translation into Welch may, in all places where the Welch tongue is commonly used or preferred, be used instead of the English words. (1 Vic. c. 22, s. 23.)

TRANSLATION OF THE SOLEMN DECLARATION.
CYFIEITHIAD O'R MYNEGIAD DIFRIFOL.

I do solemnly declare that I know not of any lawful impediment, why I, A. B., may not be joined in Matrimony to C. D.

Yr wyf fi yn ddifrifol yn hysbysu, na wn i am un rhwystr cyfreithlawn fel nad ellir fy nghysylltu_i, A. B., mewn priodas a C. D.

TRANSLATION OF THE CONTRACTING WORDS.
CYFIEITHIAD O'R GEIRIAU AMMODOL.

I call upon these Persons here present to Witness that I, A. B., do take thee, C. D., to be my lawful wedded Wife (or Husband).

Yr wyf fi yn galw ar y bobl sydd yma yn bresennol i dystiolaethu fy mod i, A. B., yn dy gymmeryd di, C. D., yn Wraig briod gyfreithlawn (neu yn Wr priod cyfreithlawn)`i mi.

The following General Regulations have been issued by or under the direction of the Registrar-General for the purpose of

securing the decorous demeanour of all persons present at the Marriage:

"The Registrar must, both by his own example, and by admonition (if requisite) to others, do all in his power to enforce and maintain the due observance of order, solemnity, and decorum, at the solemnization of Marriages in his presence; and he must remember that, although, with a view to the prevention of Clandestine Marriages, it is provided that Marriages in his presence shall be solemnized with open doors, and he is therefore not entitled to forbid entrance, yet he is authorized, and hereby required, to repress any unseemly and disorderly conduct, and eject any person so offending; and he may require the assistance of the Peace Officer, if it be necessary for that purpose. It is also especially enjoined that in his own conduct he observe the strictest decorum; and that he shall not give just cause of complaint by manner or language offensive to the feelings of those at whose Marriage he may be required to attend. Any representation to the Registrar-General, whereby it may be proved to him that any Registrar has so offended, will be followed by the immediate dismissal of such Registrar."

At the same time the officiating Minister will use his endeavours (if in any case they should be necessary) to induce the parties to comply, in a manner suitable to so solemn an occasion, with the regulations which the Registrar, to whom also the utmost courtesy should be shown, is bound by law to see fulfilled.

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4. The Registering of the Marriage. The Marriage being solemnized, the Registrar must immediately afterward, and on the spot, (that is, at or in some part of the same building,) Register the Marriage by making the requisite entries in the Marriage-Register Book, which he must bring with him, together with pen and ink, for that purpose.

The particulars required for the proper legal Registration of the Marriage will probably be better understood by presenting the Form provided for the Registration of Marriages by Stat. 6 & 7 W. IV. c. 86, Schedule C, adapted to the case of a Marriage in a Wesleyan Chapel.