A bill intituled an act to relieve persons who impugn the doctrine of the Holy Trinity from certain penalties

[Commonly called Mr. William Smith's Act.]

Whereas in the nineteenth year of His present Majesty an Act was passed, intituled "An Act for the further Belief of Protestant Dissenting Ministers and Schoolmasters;" and it is expedient to enact as hereinafter provided: Be it therefore enacted by the King's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, That so much of an Act passed in the first year of the reign of King William and Queen Mary, intituled, "An Act for exempting His Majesty's Protestant Subjects dissenting from the Church of England, from the Penalties of certain Laws," as provides that that Act or any thing therein contained should not extend or be construed to extend to give any ease, benefit or advantage to persons denying the Trinity as therein mentioned, be and the same is hereby repealed.

And be it further enacted, That the provisions of another Act passed in the ninth and tenth years of the reign of King William, intituled, "An Act for the more-effectual suppressing Blasphemy and Profaneness," so far as the same relate to persons denying as therein mentioned, respecting the Holy Trinity, be and the same are hereby repealed.

And whereas it is expedient to repeal an Act, passed in the Parliament of Scotland in the First Parliament of King Charles the Second, intituled "An Act against the Crime of Blasphemy;" and another Act, passed in the Parliament of Scotland in the First Parliament of King William, intituled, "Act against Blasphemy;" which Acts respectively ordain the punishment of Death; be it therefore enacted, That the said Acts and each of them shall be, and the same are and is hereby repealed.

And be it further enacted, That this Act shall be deemed and taken to be a public Act, and shall be judicially taken notice of as such by all Judges, Justices and others, without being specially pleaded.*

* The above Acte was passed in the yeard 1813, and a similar one for Ireland obtained the rotal assent in 1817.

No. XX. (Vol. I. p. 388.)