CO129-287 - Public Offices & Others - 1898 — Page 219

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13167

- 13 JUN

1898.

FOREIGN OFFICE,

June //

2

Sir:-

With reference to your letter of the 4th instant

respecting the marriage recently celebrated in the

United States Consulate at Hongkong, I am directed

by the Marquess of Salisbury to suggest that the in-

structions to the Governor should include the whole

of the second paragraph of the letter from this De-

partment of the 23rd 4kstert-

If however Mr. Secretary Chamberlain prefers to

adhere to the form of despatch given in the inclosure

of your letter, His Lordship considers that the lat-

ter part should run as follows:- "I am advised that

the question of the validity, or otherwise, at Hong-

kong of this marriage, is one which should be decided

by the municipal law of that Colony, independently

of any question of international comity; but under

The Under Secretary of State

Colonial Office.

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