clergy.
The case in question is an illustration of what I say.
Sabino de Silon according to the Report of the Registrar General1 should not have received the Sacrament of
on the 20th
"May,
but he
could have waited till the
Matrusivory
27th May.
The
Late
Marriage
Ordinance.
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Ordinance which is in force in the Straits Settlements or that of India. By doing so, Your Excellency
will
put a remedy to many severe inconveniences and benefit the
Colony
I have &c.
Sofc. J. Raimondi.
Bishop Vicar Apostolic
in force in the Straits Settlements
and throughout British India is
more
satisfactory than that of
Hongkong.
I have heard from good authority that the draft of the
Marriage
Ordinance sent from
home to be enforced in Hong Kong
was not the present one which we have;
it
was
a good deal more satisfactory.
We beg therefore of Your
Excellency the favour of introducing
in Hong
the
same Marriage
Ordinance