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ORDINANCE No. 14 of 1875 . 1405


Marriage.


or usages of marriage observed in such church, denomination , or body ,
provided that the marriage be celebrated with open doors , and , ( except in
case of a special licence ) , between the hours of six o'clock in the morning
and six in the afternoon , and in the presence of two or more witnesses
besides the officiating minister.
No minister shall celebrate any marriage, until the parties deliver to

him the Registrar General's certificate or the Governor's special licence .
23. The Registrar General shall cause to be prepared and delivered Marriage
certificates .
to the several licensed places of worship books of marriage certificates in
duplicate and with butts in the form in the schedule hereto . The

certificate shall be signed in duplicate by the officiating minister, by the

parties, and by two or more witnesses to the marriage.
The minister shall deliver one certificate to the parties , immediately

after the marriage, and shall transmit the other to the Registrar General
within seven days thereafter, and the Registrar General shall file the same
in his office.

The officiating minister shall enter in the butt the names of the parties
and the date of the marriage.

24. After the issue of a certificate by the Registrar General , the Marriage
before the
parties may, if they think fit, contract a marriage before the Registrar Registrar
General.
General, in the presence of two or more witnesses , in the Registrar
General's office , with open doors , and ( except in case of a special licence ) ,
between the hours of ten o'clock in the forenoon and four o'clock in the

afternoon, and in the following manner :

The Registrar General , shall first address the parties to the following
effect : -" Know ye, A.B. and C.D. , that by the public taking of each
Other as man and wife in my presence and in the presence of the persons

now here, and by the subsequent attestation thereof by signing your names
to that effect, you become legally married to each other although no other
rite of a civil or religious nature shall take place ; and know ye further
that this marriage cannot be dissolved during your life time, except by a
valid judgment of divorce , and that if either of you , before the death of the
other, shall contract another marriage while this remains undissolved , you
will thereby be guilty of bigamy, and be liable to the punishment inflicted
for that grievous offence. "
Each of the parties shall then say to the other " I call upon all persons

here present to witness that I , A.B. , do take thee, C.D. , to be my lawful
wife [or husband ]. "