3. That among those grievances =this Meeting= include the continuance of =Church Rates=, which they had hoped, ere now, would have ceased;--and to which they object because these Church Rates press specially on peculiar portions of the people--because they might be averted by a just appropriation of property belonging to the Church--because they occasion extensively irritating feuds, and local litigation--and because they are peculiarly obnoxious to those parishioners who, conscientiously dissenting from Church Establishments, erect and maintain their own places of worship--and support their ministers--relieve the necessitous of their communion--educate the young--and defray every congregational expense, without asking or desiring assistance from the State, and at their own spontaneous and voluntary charge. That in connexion with this object, =this Meeting= sincerely express their condolence with =Mr. John Childs=, of Bungay, in the imprisonment he is now enduring in the County gaol at Ipswich, on account of his conscientious objection to the payment of Church Rates--and also its abhorrence of the system which has subjected to such cruel and unmerited sufferings, an individual who has conferred great benefits on the cause of Religion and Morality by means of the press. 4. That =this Meeting= also object to the continuance Of =the Marriage Laws=, which for the solemnization of Marriage, drag Protestant and Catholic Dissenters, in defiance of their conscientious aversion, or doctrinal opinions, to the Altars of the Established Church--and regret that their sound principles have not been regarded in the measures propounded by the last and preceding Government, for their relief. And while they acknowledge the courtesy their claims have received, they express their belief that satisfaction will never ensue till all classes have the option to consider Marriage as a religious solemnity, or as a civil contract--and to have the religious solemnity celebrated by the Ministers of the Congregations or Denomination to which they belong--nor till Marriages may be registered by a civil officer with safety and facility, and on economical terms. 5. That the want of a =National Civil Registration of Births, Marriages, and Deaths=, is also among the wrongs which =this Society= have exposed and deplore. That whilst they know that much-needed and incalculable benefits would result to _the whole Empire_ by the improvement required--that valuable statistical information would be supplied, and all property become more secure--yet that the imperfections of the present system are peculiarly oppressive and vexatious to Dissenters from the Church, and that the evils they suffer must induce them to urge for an efficient and immediate remedy with universal, anxious, and unslumbering zeal.