REPORT OF THE SELECT COMMITTEE APPOINTED TO CONSIDER THE MARRIAGE ACT OF 1854.

Votes and Proceedings of the House of Representatives, 1856 Session I

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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.

REPORT OF THE SELECT COMMITTEE APPOINTED TO CONSIDER THE MARRIAGE ACT OF 1854.

EXTRACTS FROM THE VOTES AND PROCEEDINGS OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.

Votes, No. 37, Saturday, June 14, 1856. 12. Marriage Act, 1854 Mr Ward, pursuant to (amended) notice, moved, That a Select Committee be appointed to consider the Marriage Aet of 1854, and the amendments necessary thereto; the Committee to consist of Messrs. Fox, Hall, Domett, Brittin, Carleton, Lee, and the mover. Report to be brought up on Thursday next. Question put and passed.

Votes, No. 41, Thuesday, June 19, 1856. 7. Postponements:— The report of the Select Committee on the Marriage Act was postponed, on motion of Mr. Ward, until Thursday next.

Votes, No. 47, Thuesday, June 26, 1856. 9. Marriage Act Mr. "Ward, Chairman of the Committee on the Marriage Act of 1854, brought up their report, which was read and ordered to be printed.

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REPORT.

The Select Committee of the House of Representatives, appointed June 14, 1856, to consider the Marriage Act of 1854, having carefully examined the various clauses of the Act, report as follows:— 1. That the amendment proposed in the Bill now before the House is most necessary and •desirable. ,■?' m cases where it is desired that a marriage should be solemnized by the Registrar the ■certificate contained in the schedule hereunto appended should be substituted for that at present provided by the Act. r 1 3. That it is not advisable to introduce further alterations in the Act during the present ■session. C. D. R. WARD, Chairman.

SCHEDULE (C.) MarrSXthe District of giw ° f not , ioe to me (A. 8., the Registrar of of the General Assembly of Few Zealand, intituled "The Marriage' Act, larcitgt intended to be solemnized between the said C. D. and marriage for the District of (spinster.) Now I, G. H., the Registrar of Marriages i ~ . do hereby certify that the said C. D. has C D andE F rirov^S" l^ 11 t S I, th<? ®- id A , ctj and marria S e may be solemnized between the said j' T," • F -> provided that such marriage be publicly solemnized in the presence of me the said A. 8., and two or more witnesses, within three calendar months from the (here insert the date of gvi ig notice), in the (here describe the office or building where the marriage is to be solemnized! between the hours of eight in the forenoon and four in the afternoon. solemnized), Given under my hand, this day of 185