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A: 6 of the 9th January 1891, paragraph 8, Lord Knutsford states :-

"I

request you

to

report to me whe. "ther the want of a provision for civil marringe before the Registrar Christians has been felt in

of

" other cases besides the particular ca " referred to by Mr. Flemming?

To this the Officer Adminis- tering the Government, General Barker, replied:-

"I have caused enquiry to be made " and have been unable to find

"That

any

other cave has arisen

" besides the one ineuhaud in

"Mr. Fleming's despatch."

It is quite true that cases

h one or hoo

- are not frequent, though

have occurred since the date of Gove=

are numerous or not does not affear

ral Barker's despatch.

But whether caves

to me to affect inn

ciple

any way

the

prin- at stake, i.e. that a person -

should not be deprived of the right to be married according to the law

because he or she is not a Christian,

St. J. St. Sowart Lockhart, Colonial Secretory

and

12 July, 1895.

Registrar General.

should

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