DRAFT.

Jamaica. No. 2/5

Governor

Sir H.A.Blake, K.C.M.G.

auritius. No. 322.

217

HONG KONG.

21362

Sovernor Sir C.C.Lees, K. C.M.G.

MINUTE. 14 November.

Mr. Johnson 14 November

Mr. Fairfield 10

Ind

Sir,

Downing Street

23. November, 1891.

I have the honour to inform

And Jamaica 1/48 38

Indexed Jamaica

um.

Mr. Wingfield.

X Mr. Bramston. 2

Mr. Meade.

Sir R. Herbert.

Baron de Worms.

Lord Knutsford.

by the Law of thing

Mr. Ebden 20//w)

Mr. Hales 20 Nw-to see

Sir A. Hemming 2014-

to Jamaica

Under Act 1

3.e 515.13

For comm-to

Mauritius

for pustim Munalif

you that the question of legalising marriages celebrated in articulo mortis has been raised in Hong Kong, and the 0.A.G. of that Colony has urged, as one objection to that course, the fact that while marriage revokes a will, there

ས་ཤི་བ་ are many people who are aware of this, and the performance of the marriage re- ligious ceremony at the point of death might in this way work occasionally unjustifiable hardship.

I should be lad to know whether

any question of this kind has arisen

Jamaica

in Mauritius where death bed marriages

29 Law No.15 of are allowed by Sec.16 of Urdinance No.20

of 1879 and where the rule of laws

above referred to also obtains,

$

I have to:

am not aware whatten the mile of

Low refined to off in Maccitius;

the

he but I had a inframed

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