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An Act for the Abolition of compulsory Church Rates.
[31st July 1868]
WHEREAS Church Rates have for some Years ceased to be made or collected in many Parishes by reason of the Opposition thereto, and in many other Parishes where Church Rates have been made the levying thereof has given rise to Litigation and Ill-feeling :
And whereas it is expedient that the Power to compel Payment of Church Rates by any legal Process should be abolished:
Be it therefore enacted by the Queen'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, as follows :
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