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Excellency will have pleasure in bringing it to the notice of Ster- Majesty's Government, if you will have the goodness to forward excumstantial detail of your particular position with respect to "Ordination, and of the Constitution of the Body frequenting the Unim Chapel which

you may consider

material to the question-

I have, te,

(Signed) W. Conne

Colonial Secretary-

True Copy.

Colonial Element Secretary-

(Copy)

£7200

99

Victoria. 19th May. 1851-

To the Honorable Major W. Caine.

Sir,

I beg to acknowledge the receipt

of your letter of the 8th curt

that" His Osecellency

informing

se

does not consider himself authorized to grant any

License for the solemnization of marriage, except to ordained clergymen of the Church of England or to Presbyterian Ministers of the Church of Scotland" I had hoped that His Excellency would consider himself authorized either to extend to this Island the provisions of the new Marriage Act for England, or to approve in it in