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A: 6 of the 9th January 1891, paragraph 8, Lord Knutsford states :-
"I
request you
to
report to me whe. "ther the want of a provision for civil marringe before the Registrar Christians has been felt in
of
" other cases besides the particular ca " referred to by Mr. Flemming?
To this the Officer Adminis- tering the Government, General Barker, replied:-
"I have caused enquiry to be made " and have been unable to find
"That
any
other cave has arisen
" besides the one ineuhaud in
"Mr. Fleming's despatch."
It is quite true that cases
h one or hoo
- are not frequent, though
have occurred since the date of Gove=
are numerous or not does not affear
ral Barker's despatch.
But whether caves
to me to affect inn
ciple
any way
the
prin- at stake, i.e. that a person -
should not be deprived of the right to be married according to the law
because he or she is not a Christian,
St. J. St. Sowart Lockhart, Colonial Secretory
and
12 July, 1895.
Registrar General.
should
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