1. No descendant of the body of his late Majesty King George the Second, male or female (other than the issue of princesses who have married, or may hereafter marry, into foreign families), shall be capable of contracting matrimony, without the previous consent of his Majesty, his heirs or successors, signified under the great seal and declared in council (which consent, to preserve the memory thereof, is hereby directed to be set out in the license and register of marriage, and to be entered in the books of the Privy Council); and [that] every marriage or matrimonial contract, of any such descendant, without such consent first had and obtained, shall be null and void to all intents and purposes whatsoever. 2. Provided always ... that in case any such descendant of the body of his late Majesty King George the Second, being above the age of twenty-five years, shall persist in his or her resolution to contract a marriage disapproved of, or dissented from, by the King, his heirs or successors; that then such descendant, upon giving notice to the King’s Privy Council, which notice is hereby directed to be entered in the books thereof, may, at any time from the expiration of twelve calendar months after such notice given to the Privy Council as aforesaid, contract such marriage; and his or her marriage with the person before proposed, and rejected, may be duly solemnized, without the previous consent of his Majesty, his heirs or successors; and such marriage shall be as good, as if this Act had never been made, unless both Houses of Parliament shall, before the expiration of the said twelve months, expressly declare their disapprobation of such intended marriage. 3. And ... every person who shall knowingly and wilfully presume to solemnize or to assist or be present at the celebration of any marriage with any such descendant, or in his or her making any matrimonial contract, without such consent as aforesaid first had and obtained, except in the case above mentioned, shall being duly convicted thereof, incur and suffer the pains and penalties ordained and provided by the Statute of Provision and Premunire made in the sixteenth year of the reign of King Richard the Second. APPENDIX D EXECUTIONS The accompanying letter from Mr. A. Chichele Plowden, one of the Metropolitan Police Magistrates, appeared in _The Times_ for December 20, 1910. EXECUTIONS _To the Editor of The Times_ SIR,--The interesting letters which have lately appeared in your columns on the above subject were bound sooner or later to resolve themselves into the one question of really national importance--_viz._, whether or not capital punishment by hanging is to be the last word of our civilization in dealing with the crime of murder.