Signing the Association, etc. Act 1698

II. Reciting that Disputes had arisen whether certain Officers, &c. were within Stat. 25 Car. II. c. 2. and Stat. 1 W. & M. c.8.

Certain Officers, &c. indemnified in respect thereof.

And whereas some Disputes have arisen whether some certaine Officers and Members of Corporations (not being Justices of the Peace Recorder or Towne-Clerke for such Corporations) are comprehended within the Act of Parliament made in the Five and twentieth Yeare of the Reigne of King Charles the Second intituled An Act for preventing Dangers which may happen from Popish Recusants And alsoe an Act made in the First Yeare of His present Majesty and the late Queene Mary intituled An Act for the abrogating of the Oaths of Supremacy and Allegiance and appointing other Oaths and some such Officers and Members (except as aforesaid) not thinking themselves comprehended within the said Acts have neglected to take the Oaths and subscribe the Declaration as in the said Acts is prescribed Bee it therefore enacted by the Authority aforesaid That every such Officer and Member (except as aforesaid) who hath since his being an Officer or Member of such Corporation already taken the said Oaths and subscribed the said Declaration or shall take and subscribe the same before the First Day of August One thousand seaven hundred in the Courts and in the Manner prescribed by the said last mentioned Acts shall for such Neglects only be indempnified against all the Incapacities Disabilities and Penalties in the said Acts contained as if he or they had formerly fully observed the Directions of the said Acts of Parliament Any thing in the same contained to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding