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its form I a license to act.

This Government grants

licenses to sell liquors to certain

persons who pay certain peco and comply with certain conditions. Would

licensing systeru, if

this be less a

a licci

Evere

uistead of being furnished with a license in point of form they simply required to produce the Treasurer's certificate that they had paid their annual fee into the Treasury complied with the conditions,

I thunk wot

The ordinance and

as a whole

its requirements takern

constitute at the same time. the

prohibition and the license.

wvill

Our complaint is,

and I have the honour to request.

strat

you

again forward it to the Secretary of State with our prayer for its alteration or amendment, that whereas the Roman Catholic Church

ought

•ght to be left free to regulate the marriages of Roman Catholics, marriage being

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Sacrament, the

free exercise of their priestly functions

is forbidden to the Roman Catholic

Clergy except upon conditions. They permitted, authorized, liccused, what you will,

will, to perform them ct to conditions imposed by the

subject

Government em mecessarily and

use

selessly.

The Roman Catholic

Church first, before

civil

any

Government interfered, made - abundant provision for the puricity

cages.

and authentification of marria

Avil Governments

vonents are a

only copying

copying badly her system.

The Marriage

was

force u

orduriance now wi

professedly introduced

solely for purpose of registration. We have always given, will

always

grise every facility to registration. the will willingly obey any

Laur

providing

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