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