Abe has sustained in the definition of his fees by the introduction of the new Marriage Ordinance.
I run to inform Your Lordship that when the Marriage Ordinance was under consideration last year, the opinion of the representatives of different sections of religious belief in the Colony was solicited as to its probable working, and Mr. Kidd then took the opportunity to point out in a letter, a copy of which I have the honor to enclose, the likelihood in all probability of a considerable diminution in receipts from fees to the Colonial Chaplain might be anticipated.
As in accepting the post of Colonial Chaplain, he had been led by statements made to him by his predecessor in office and by the actual fact of the ease to believe that the Colonial Chaplain enjoyed an average increment to his salary of seventy pounds legitimately derived from Marriage fees under the then state of the law, he at the same time petitioned the Government to allow him some compensation for this loss.
The matter was considered by the Select Committee of the
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