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MARRIAGES (IRELAND) ACT 1844 - SECT 65

Marriage registers to be kept in duplicate.

65. The rector, vicar, or curate of every such church and chapel, and every
such Presbyterian minister of a certified Presbyterian meeting house, and
every such registering officer and secretary, shall, in the months of April,
July, October, and January respectively, make and deliver to the registrar of
the district in which such church or chapel or certified Presbyterian meeting
house or registered place of worship may be situated, or which may be assigned
by the registrar general to such registering officer or secretary, on one of
the forms to be furnished to him as aforesaid by the registrar general, a true
copy certified by him under his hand of all the entries of marriages in the
register book kept by him since the last certificate, ... and if there shall
have been no marriage entered therein since the last certificate shall certify
the fact under his hand, and shall keep the said marriage register books
safely until the same shall be filled; and one copy of every such register
book, when filled, shall be delivered to the registrar of the district in
which such church or chapel or certified Presbyterian meeting house may be
situated, or which shall have been assigned as aforesaid to such registering
officer or secretary, and the other copy of every such register book kept by
any such rector, vicar, or curate shall remain in the keeping of such rector,
vicar, or curate, and shall be kept by him with the registers of baptisms and
burials of the parish or chapelry within which the marriages registered
therein shall have been solemnized, and the other copy of every such register
book kept by any such Presbyterian minister shall remain under the care of
such Presbyterian minister, and be kept with the other registers and records
of his meeting house, and the other copy of every such register book of
marriages among the people called Quakers and among persons professing the
Jewish religion respectively shall remain under the care of the said people or
persons respectively, to be kept with their other registers and records, and
shall, for the purposes of this Act, be still deemed to be in the keeping of
the registering officer or secretary for the time being respectively.

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