✨ Marriage Act Notifications
NEW ZEALAND
GOVERNMENT GAZETTE
(PROVINCE OF NELSON).
PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY.
All Public Notifications which appear in this Gazette, with any Official Signature thereunto annexed, are to be considered as Official Communications made to those Persons to whom they may relate, and are to be obeyed accordingly.
By his Honor's command,
HENRY ADAMS, Solicitor of the Province.
VOL. II. NELSON, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1854. No. 19.
Superintendent's Office, Nelson,
27th November, 1854.
HIS Honor the Superintendent directs the publication of the following letter from the Colonial Secretary, with its enclosure, for general information.
By his Honor's command,
ALFRED GREENFIELD,
Clerk in Superintendent's Office.
Colonial Secretary's Office,
Auckland, 7th Nov., 1854.
SIR—In forwarding to you the enclosed notice of the Registrar General, issued in the Government Gazette of yesterday's date, No. 35, I have the honour, by the direction of his Excellency the Officer administering the Government, to request that, as it is of the utmost importance to the colonial public that the Marriage Act recently passed by the General Assembly should be properly initiated, your Honour will be good enough to cause this notice to be published in the Provincial Gazette, and also in each of the newspapers published in the Province.
I have, &c.,
ANDREW SINCLAIR,
Colonial Secretary.
His Honor the Superintendent,
Nelson.
MARRIAGE ACT.
OFFICIATING MINISTERS FOR 1855.
The attention of the person or persons within the colony of New Zealand in whom is vested Ecclesiastical authority over any of the religious bodies enumerated in Schedule D annexed to the Marriage Act, 1854, viz :—
The United Church of England and Ireland.
The Church of Scotland.
The Roman Catholic Church.
The Free Church of Scotland.
All Presbyterian Congregations.
The Wesleyan Methodist Society.
All Congregational Independents.
Baptists.
The Primitive Methodist Society.
The Lutheran Church.
All Hebrew Congregations.
The Society of Friends.
Also the attention of Ministers of Religion not connected with any of these Bodies, who may desire to be placed on the list of "Officia-ting Ministers" within the meaning of this Act, is specially called to the following extracts from the Act aforesaid :—
"Any Minister of Religion whose name shall have been sent into the Registrar-General of Births, Deaths, and Marriages, or other Officer to be appointed by the Governor in that behalf, by the persons or superintendent within the Colony in
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Nelson Provincial Gazette 1854, No 19
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🏛️ Publication of Colonial Secretary's letter regarding the Marriage Act
🏛️ Governance & Central Administration27 November 1854
Marriage Act, Colonial Secretary, Nelson, Superintendent
- Alfred Greenfield, Clerk in Superintendent's Office
- Andrew Sinclair, Colonial Secretary
🏛️ Notice to religious bodies regarding the Marriage Act, 1854
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