CO129-037 - Sir Bonham - 1851 [6-9] — Page 103

CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案 All

No 45 of 1851.

Inclosure to I'm Dasp:

(Copy)

No 100

F

£7306101

My Lord.

Victoria. Honghong.

10th June, 1851-

An application having recently been made to me by Dr Legge to extend to this Island the Provisions of the New Marriage Act for England or to approve in it the Common law of Scotland, where Marriages are solemnized by Ministers of all Denominations, and it being my intention to bring the

Cremustances of the case to the Notice of Her Majesty's Government. I shall be happy to receive from you any observations you may fit to make on the subject, and to

The Right Reverent,

The Bishop of Victoria,

te.

tc.

tc.

see

Colonial Government,

Fr Legge and the

between the Reverend

Correspondence passed

relative

to

The

Marriages in

Jobmnization of

the

"Union Chapel"

25th April - 9th June,

1851.

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