alteration of the law Inbilen ought to have got the R. G's certificate poist (and I do not believe there was any reason for his not doing so) and the Priest ought, and knew that he ought not to have performed the marriage without it. It is allowed to suppose that a man giving notice of the intended marriage on the 22nd of May had not time to obtain the R. G's Certificate between the 22nd of May and the 25th of May when the marriage took place. Here there could not have been any difficulty in complying with Mr. 2274 Un Law.
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229 As to the particular marriage which led to the correspondence in the parties having drawn and wilfully acquiesced in its celebration without certificate of notice duly issued" - and the clergyman has been leniently dealt with in not being prosecuted -
The law should - if it has not already done so - forthwith license the Church of the Immaculate Conception for the celebration of marriages and as it is stated that more than 100 marriages have been celebrated in it although it was not licensed and so owing to some all others may have known that it was not licensed and their marriages may consequently be invalidated by law - it is desirable that a validating ordinance should be enacted - at all events the point might be considered.
les K to the request of the R.C. Bishop on behalf of the R. C. Church in Struggling for the repeal of the Ordinance 7 of 1875 a law similar to then in India and the Straits.
I presume that Lord Kimberley will agree I defer to reopen the question which was fully considered and discussed and settled by Lord Carnarvon when the Ordinance was passed.
The Sahits law would no doubt be more acceptable to the R.C. Church; it does not require marriage to be celebrated in a licensed building or place.