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application for compelucation

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for the loss I have sustained in consequence of the operation of Marriage Ordinance. You will remember

the select committee thought that should

I Exffer any

dinimation

of income

would make me

compensation.

thro' the new law, the Government.

I shall lose about £ to per Annum bey the Ordinance. Pright

Suggest

chat bes

way of compincation

I be allowed a sum of $500 in

payment of any

or the future.

claim for the past

then apponited to any office

was told that the fees averaged a certain amount - about # 80 per annum.

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and now that legislation has reduce a

them, I

hope that I shall receive some

compensation -

As one uistance.

Among

others,

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may tell you that a lady came by last English mail expecting to be married at

the Cathedral, but on

on arrival trund that the law had been altered and

that she could be married chewhere,

which she wante

accordingly under the old regime. the Colonial chapiain had vertically the monopoly of Marriage.

but things were changed and I think properly so, only I chint also that having been deprived

been deprived of some, portion of income. I should have a recesure

further I kliend

of compensation, auch further.

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