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HONGKONG.

ANNO DECIMO QUINTO VICTORLE REGINE.

No. 1 of 1852.

BY His Excellency Sir SAMUEL George BoshaM, Knight Commnan- der of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, Governor and Commman- der-in-Chief of the Colony of llongkong and its Dependencies, and Vice- ́ Admiral of the same, Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary, and Chief Super- intendent of the Trade of British Subjects in China, with the Advice of the Legislative Council of Hongkong,

AN ORDINANCE FOR CERTAIN MARRIAGES IN THE COLONY OF Hong-

KONG,

[16th March, 1852.]

WHEREAS it is deemed expedient to amend the Law of Marriages in the said Colony: Be it therefore emneted and ordained by His Excellency The Governor of Hongkong, with the Advice of the Legis- lative Council thereof, That,

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I. From and after the passing of this Ordinance, in every Case of Marriage of Marriage intended to be solemnized in the said Colony where One or Christians in both of the l'artics is or are a Person or Persons professing the Christian;

Hongkong may be solemnized Religion, such Marriage may be solemnized under the Provisions of this under this Ordi- Ordinance; and where such Marriage is intended to be so solemnized, nance. One of the Parties shall give Notice in Writing to a Marriage Registrar of the said Colony to be appointed under the Provisions of this Ordinance, both Parties having previously resided for a Term of not less than Seven Days in the said Colony, such Notice to be in the Form of tended Marriage Schedule A, to this Ordinance annexed, or to the like Effect, and shall a Marriage Re given to state therein the Name and Surname and the Profession or Condition of gistrar of the both of the Parties intending Marriage, the Dwelling-place of each of Colony- them, and the Time, not being less than Seven Days, during which each has dwelt therein, provided that if either Party sill have dwelt in the Place stuted in the Notice during more than One Calendar Month, it may be stated therein that he or she hath dwelt there One Month and upwards.

1. It shall and may be lawful to and for the sail Governor of the said Colony from Time to Time to nominate and appoint fit and proper Persous to act as such Registrars, and from Time to Time to remove such Registrars and appoint others in their place.

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III. Any Marriage Registrar upon being requested so to do by or on behalf of the Party by whom the Notice was given, and One of the Notice to be is Parties intending Marriage having made Oath or Declaration as herein. sued on Request. after required shall issue under his Hand a Certificate of such Notice having been given and of such Oath or Declaration having been made; Provided no lawful Impediment according to the Law of England be shown to the Satisfaction of the Marriage Registrar why such Certifi- cate should not issue, and the Issue of such Certificate have not been sooner forbidden, in mauner hereafter mentioned, by any Person or Persons by this Ordinance authorized in that Behalf: Provided always, Proviso. that where by such Oath or Declaration it appears that One of the Parties intending Marriage (not being a Widower or Widow) is muler Twenty-one Years of Age, the Marriage Registrar shall not issue such Certificate until the Expiration of Fourteen Days after the giving of such Notice; and it is further provided, that the Marriage Registrar shall file all such Notices and keep them with the Records of his Office, and shall also forthwith cuter a true Copy of all such Notices fairly into a Book to be called the "Marriage Notice Book," which shall be open at all reasonable Times without Fee to all Persons desirous of inspecting the same, and such Registrar shall publish all such Notices of Marriage by Inspection and causing a Copy of such Notices to be affixed on One of the Entrance Doors of the Supreme Court.

IV. The Father, if living, of any Party under Twenty-one Years of Who to give Age, such Party not being a Widower or Widow, or, if the Father be Consent if Par- dead, the Guardian or Guardians of the Person of the Party so under ties under Age,

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