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GEORGII IV. REGIS.
C A P. XXV.
An Act for defining the Rights of Capital Convicts
who receive Pardon, and of Convicts after having
been punished for Clergyable Felonies ; for plac-
ing Clerks in Orders on the same Footing with
other Persons, as to Felonies ; and for limiting
the Effect of the Benefit of Clergy.
[20th May 1825.]
WHEREAS it is expedient that the Civil Rights of Persons
having been convicted of Capital Felonies, who receive
His Majesty's most gracious Pardon, and of Persons having
been convicted of Felonies within the Benefit of Clergy, who have
undergone the Punishment to which they were adjudged, should be
more clearly ascertained than is at present the case ; 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 Autho-
rity of the same, That in all Cases in which His late Majesty, or the n c
King's Majesty that now is, His Heirs or Successors, hath been or shall free P., dons,
be pleased to extend His or Their Royal Mercy to any Offender con- the Prioneri
victed of any Felony whereby the Offender was, is, or shall be excluded Dicharg,
from the Benefit of Clergy, and by Warrant under His or Their Royal cn r i'
Sign Manual, countersigned by One of His or Their Principal Secreta. Part. .
ries of State, hath granted or shall grant to such Offender, either a Pern ,
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