CO129-251 - Acting Governor Barker - 1891 [9-11] — Page 278

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pot are but several wives), without any interferance whate

eri

the

part of the Government and without any attempt

mpt our

authorities to secure quon

of such

873

when the droument issered point of fact

a certificate but I much regret

act that I cannot

a av ani

very

accept his opinion as conclusive.

the part of the

registration

that that certificate is in

200 LLE

Those

the

averong

marriages. Christian population who are able.

to afford $825, marry with the license

of

the Governor. Only

ber

a leirited

of the population have

recourse to the

Registrar

direct

The Secretary of State

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further pounts out that the law, as to

this latter section.

of

the population, merely requires that certain notices

given and that the

should be

Registrar's certificate is only a proof that the law has been complied with,

but that it is in

no sense a license.

I apologise

to the Right

Honourable the Secretary of State for

having

the

made an

. purely

an umproper use of

word Liccuse,

technical word

wher

liccuse. Elk to the date of the

Ma

Marriage

passing of the bla

Kdıranc

now in force the Rornan Catholic

Clergy

absolutely free to celebrate.

were absol

marriage where they 1.

uten

they pleswed, they pleased, and between whom woever, subject only to the laws of the Roruan Catholic Church. The ordinance inn

question forbade them to do so for the future, except in buildings

Accuved

by

the Government, and

until there was produced to them.

certain document si

signed

ca by the

F

theat

i

Registar . On the production document they

overe permitted to exercise their sacred functions.In other words that certificate and its

production was in effect / whatever

its

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