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Enclosure 1.

Report by

the Colonial Secretary and Regishar General C.O.

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Pro 26 AUG 95

Section 39 of the Marriage Ordi. navce, 14 of 1875, is as · foilows:-

"." This Ardinance shall apply to all "marriages

ishere one or both parties

" profess the Christian religion :

The view I hold is that the

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Ordinance should re

recognise marriages in which neither of the parties is a Christian. I am

I am unable to see.

ee why. religion should be imported inton civil marriage, and I think it is unfair that persons who are not Christ, ians should be deprived of the right to be married civilly according to the Marriage Law.

In Colonial Office Despatch

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