DRAFT.
Jamaica. No. 2/5
Governor
Sir H.A.Blake, K.C.M.G.
auritius. No. 322.
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HONG KONG.
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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,
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