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TEST ABOLITION ACT 1867 - SECT 2

Nothing in this Act to enable Roman Catholics to hold offices other than those they are now entitled to hold.

2. Nothing in this Act contained shall be construed to enable any person
professing the Roman Catholic religion to exercise or enjoy any civil office,
franchise, or right for the exercise or enjoyment of which the taking, making,
or subscribing the declaration by this Act abolished is now by law a necessary
qualification, or any other civil office, franchise, or right from which he is
now by law excluded.

I, A.B., do solemnly and sincerely, in the presence of God, profess, testify,
and declare, that I do believe that in the sacrament of the Lord's Supper
there is not any transubstantiation of the elements of bread and wine into the
body and blood of Christ at or after the consecration thereof by any person
whatsoever; and that the invocation or adoration of the Virgin Mary or any
other saint, and the sacrifice of the mass, as they are now used in the Church
of Rome, are superstitious and idolatrous: And I do solemnly, in the presence
of God, profess, testify, and declare, that I do make this declaration, and
every part thereof, in the plain and ordinary sense of the words read unto me
as they are commonly understood by Protestants, without any evasion,
equivocation, or mental reservation whatsoever, and without any dispensation
already granted me for this purpose by the Pope or any other authority or
person whatsoever, or without any hope of any such dispensation from any
person or authority whatsoever, or without believing that I am or can be
acquitted before God or man, or absolved of this declaration, or any part
thereof, although the Pope or any other person or persons or power whatsoever
should dispense with or annul the same, or declare that it was null and void
from the beginning.

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