SINGULAR MARRIAGE DOWRY QUESTION.
A: curious case has come before tire the Irish Lord Chancellor. In the year 1792 a gentleman named Mr | Charlton left a bequest, out of which was to be given a marriage dowry of six guineas to the daughters cf every day laborer in the counties of Meath and Longford on their marriage, in preseuce of a Protestant clergyman, and to the son.3 of day laborers in those counties, or the counties adjoining. The claims on the fund have been few, and the amount has increased very largely. The Lord Chancellor approved of a scheme extending the application of the fund to persons of all denominations, and increasing the dowry to L 25. The scheme was opposed by the Bishop of Meath and the Bishop of Kilmore, who desired that it should, as heretofore, be restricted to the members of the Protestant Church of Ireland. In opposition to this view, it was argued that in the year of the testator's death mixed marriages were legalised, if performed in the presence of a Protestant clergyman.
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Evening Star, Issue 4436, 18 May 1877, Page 3
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178SINGULAR MARRIAGE DOWRY QUESTION. Evening Star, Issue 4436, 18 May 1877, Page 3
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