Jernor.
No.
ch 100 1898
Hongkong. No. 97418
(Subject.)
Marriages before bonauts
каре
previous Paper. Report
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190
DESPATCH.
of Mrs Tex. Engures whether
marriages can be performed at a forcejn consulate in B. Colonies without compliance with requeriments of local law.
Mr Wilson.
(Minutes.)
3
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Dispose
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absequent Paper.
local law.
We have no
noli
of any
similar
ea
hitherto
a
the question appears.
Lo
be purely
legale I send it
to
urthe
a
you
copy of the
Te.hu.
5/5
30th April
in Hongkong
W Cox
LAFU 615 Mr Wingfield
I have asked the las teen deft for precedent, to manager before foreign consuls in
but there seems to be no information upon the
point.
The
case affears to be
follows. An amencan
an Ameri
a
subject we mained at the t I consulate by
menisley to
a
woman,
an of Chinese origin who by previons marriage with a British subject he dacquired Balish nationality. We have no
in form a temon to whether she had during widowhood, diverter helf