Duties on Marriages etc. Act 1697

II. Commissioners under c.10. ante to be Commissioners for executing the said Acts; and, together with the Justices of Peace authorized to be Commissioners by the said Acts, impowered to do all Acts relating to the said Duties, until the 24th June 1699; and afterwards the Justices of Peace for the Time being to execute their Powers of Commissioners.

And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all and every the Persons nominated or appointed to be Commissioners for putting in Execution an Act of this present Session of Parliament intituled An Act for granting to His Majesty the Sum of One million four hundred eighty four thousand and Fifteen Pounds. One Shilling Eleven Pence Three Farthings for disbanding Forces paying Seamen and other Uses therein mentioned shal be Commissioners for putting in Execution the said several Acts for the said Duties upon Marriages Births Burials Batchelors and Widowers and all the Powers therein contained until the Four and twentieth Day of June One thousand six hundred ninety nine within all and every the several and respective Counties Ridings Cities Burroughs Cinque-Ports Towns and Places for which they are Commissioners by the said Act nameing or appointing them as aforesaid respectively And that they the said Commissioners joyntly with the Justices of the Peace authorized to be Commissioners in or by the said former Acts for the Duties aforesaid and every of them or such or so many of the said Justices and the said other Commissioners or any of them as in any Case or Cases are in and by the said former Acts for or concerning the said Duties appointed to act or be a Quorum shal have ful Power and Authority and they and every of them are hereby required and impowred to act do proceed and finish in all Matters and Things relating to the said Duties upon Marriages Births Burials Batchelors and Widowers or the Arrears thereof as fully and effectually as if the said Commissioners were again perticularly named and repeated in the Body of this present Act until the said Four and twentieth Day of June One thousand six hundred ninety nine And that from and after the said Four and twentieth Day of June One thousand six hundred ninety nine the Justices of the Peace for the time being of the several and respective Counties Ridings Cities Towns Boroughs and Places within the Kingdom of England Dominion of Wales and Town of Berwick upon Tweed or such or so many of them as are impowred in or by the said former Acts shal execute their Powers of Commissioners for the same in the manner thereby prescribed.