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time, before death ensued, to make the necessary application to the Governor and obtain a special licence
It would be only repeating what has already been communicated to Your Lordship's predecessor, if I were to go over Bishop Raimondi's other objections to the Ordinance. These were considered by Lord Carnarvon at the time the subject was receiving his attention; although I am not aware that the Bishop then made special allusion, as he now does, to the laws of India and the Straits Settlements.
6. The principal objection I see to the Ordinance is the uncertainty as to whether persons purporting to be married under it are legally married or not? For example, in the case of a marriage which took place prior