MARRIAGE.
FORM No. 6.
Declaration.
No. 7 of 1875.
*
[s. 21.]
I, A.B., of
do hereby declare that I fully understand that by publicly taking C.D. as my wife [or husband, as the case may be] in the presence of the Secretary for Chinese Affairs, I shall become legally married and bound to the said C.D., although no other rite of a civil or religious nature shall take place, and I also understand that the effect of my publicly taking the said C.D. as my wife [or husband, as the case may be] as aforesaid is to create between us a marriage which cannot be dissolved during our joint lives except by a valid judgment of divorce, and that if either of us, before the death of the other, shall contract another marriage while this one remains undis-solved, he or she will be guilty of bigamy and will be liable to the punishment for that offence.
Dated the day of
Witness, (Signed.)
Interpreted to the said A.B. in the presence of
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(Signed.) A.B.
W.X., Secretary for Chinese Affairs.
W.X., Secretary for Chinese Affairs.
language, in the
(Signed,) Y.Z., Interpreter.
SECOND SCHEDULE.
TABLE OF FEES.
Notice of marriage ... Nil.
Certificate of notice. ... 1 dollar.
Search... 1 ""
[s. 35.]
*
Certified copy ... 1 ""
Certificate of absence of any record for a period not exceeding 10 years... 5 dollars.
The same for period exceeding 10 years ... 10 ""
Licence to Secretary for Chinese Affairs to issue his certificate ... .50 ""
Special licence... .......10. ""
Marriage at the office of the Secretary for Chinese Affairs
-1881.
No. 1 of 1881, repealed by Proclamation No. 3 of 1920.
* As amended by Law. Rev. Ord., 1923.
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