Church And State in North Carolina; By Stephen Beauregard Weeks...
Church And State in North Carolina; By Stephen Beauregard Weeks...
Weeks, Stephen Beauregard, 1865-1918
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, IX. , 250. ? Ibid. , IX. , 596, 665 ; cf. Davis's Revisal, 455, 501, ed. 1773 ; cf. Also Dr. Smith's History of Education in North Carolina, 32, 33. 42 Church and State in North Carolina. [244 But the enforcement of the Schism Act was not all with which the soul of the Dissenter was vexed. In no way was the petty meanness of an Establishment brought out more clearly than in the regulations concerning marriages. An act of 1669 had made marriage a civil contract, for lack of clergy. 1 By the ve...stry act of 1715 magistrates were empowered to perform the ceremony " in such parishes where no minister shall be resident. " 2 In 1741 a special marriage act was passed. By this act the performance of the marriage ceremony was confined to clergymen of the Church of England, and, for want of such, to magistrates; and the minister serving the cure of any parish was to have the marriage fee whether performing the ceremony or not, "if he do not neglect or refuse to do the service thereof. " This was the formal re-enactment of a clause of the vestry act of 1715.
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