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Jernor.

No.

ch 100 1898

Hongkong. No. 97418

(Subject.)

Marriages before bonauts

каре

previous Paper. Report

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190

DESPATCH.

of Mrs Tex. Engures whether

marriages can be performed at a forcejn consulate in B. Colonies without compliance with requeriments of local law.

Mr Wilson.

(Minutes.)

3

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Dispose

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absequent Paper.

local law.

We have no

noli

of any

similar

ea

hitherto

a

the question appears.

Lo

be purely

legale I send it

to

urthe

a

you

copy of the

Te.hu.

5/5

30th April

in Hongkong

W Cox

LAFU 615 Mr Wingfield

I have asked the las teen deft for precedent, to manager before foreign consuls in

but there seems to be no information upon the

point.

The

case affears to be

follows. An amencan

an Ameri

a

subject we mained at the t I consulate by

menisley to

a

woman,

an of Chinese origin who by previons marriage with a British subject he dacquired Balish nationality. We have no

in form a temon to whether she had during widowhood, diverter helf