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me that he
celebrated
Hager satisfied had not wilfully
marriage contrary to any provision of the Ordinance,
a
I abstained from causing any prosecution to be in- stituted against him.
5.
The facts of this
case however raise the im- portant question whether a
ean
pro
minister of religion perly perform a marriage
at the United States Consu.
late in this Colony between
а
A
bridegroom, who is an Ame- rican citizen; and a bride, who is the widow of a de- ceased Englishman, without the preliminary require - ments of the local marriage law having
6.
been observed.
As the question ap
pears to be one of practice and has probably
arisen be
or in other
fore. in England "Colonies, I shall be glad to
be informed whether, in
- of the Colonial Mar-
view
riage