No 45 of 1851.
Inclosure to I'm Dasp:
(Copy)
No 100
F
£7306101
My Lord.
Victoria. Honghong.
10th June, 1851-
An application having recently been made to me by Dr Legge to extend to this Island the Provisions of the New Marriage Act for England or to approve in it the Common law of Scotland, where Marriages are solemnized by Ministers of all Denominations, and it being my intention to bring the
Cremustances of the case to the Notice of Her Majesty's Government. I shall be happy to receive from you any observations you may fit to make on the subject, and to
The Right Reverent,
The Bishop of Victoria,
te.
tc.
tc.
see
Colonial Government,
Fr Legge and the
between the Reverend
Correspondence passed
relative
to
The
Marriages in
Jobmnization of
the
"Union Chapel"
25th April - 9th June,
1851.