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the partics, and the other sent to the Registrar General
In
order to obtain due publicity of intended
marriages notice is to be given to the Registras
General, and by him publicly exposed; and after fifteen days and within three months, he
may, if no valid objection is made, issue a certificate authoring: the celebration of the marriage: Power is, however, reserved to the Governor to grant licences dispensing fwith the length of notice, or even in special
with all notice.
The Governor is authorised to license places of
evership and marriages
marriages are only
to be celebrated
on
production of a certificate from the Registrar General,
ot a licence from the Govenor. The Ordinance like 11°
of 1852 applice only to marriages, where
one at least
of the parties professes the Christian religion.
In framing
the Ordinance, regard has been had
to similar laws in Ceylon, and in the Australian Colonies, and this Ordinance is asimilated in its -general principles to those laws, as far as the different cirenmatances of this Colony would permit
In conclusion I have the honour to advise
that masmuch
as the draft Bill received the sanotion of the Secretary of State it is unnecessary for Ais Excellency to reserve the Ordinance for Mer allajesty's further approval, nötivithstanding the
1 objections made to it by the Roman Catholic Clergy.
I have the honour to be
Sir
Your most obedient Servant
John Bramston Attorney General
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