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receive
Registrar of Marriages, should
salary of £100 per payment for the duties which in
A
assume as
Marriage
this capacity the new Ordinance will entail upon him.
Under the old septem Mr. Gerrard received certain fee for any marriage at which it fell to his lot to officiate annoninting
dollars
and
No
a
in all to about 80
year.
These fees he will now lose,
his duties will be
considerably increased under the Ordinance, I do not think
that for an Officer of his standing,
one
hundred
pounds a year
would
be
an
excessive salary, and I
Therefore think Your Ladship will sanction this amount being put upon the Supplementary Estimates for this
year.
I have the honor to be,
My Lord,
Your Lordship's most obedient
humble servant
Robinson
Governor