✨ Marriage Act Details, Telegraph Statistics
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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
"The Primitive Methodist Society,"
"The Lutheran Church,"
"All Hebrew Congregations,"
"The Society of Friends."
With respect to Ministers of Religion not con-
nected with any of the aforesaid bodies, it is pro-
vided by the forty-second section of "The Marriage Act,
1854," and the second section of "The Marriage Act
Amendment Act, 1868," as follows:—
Sec. 42, Marriage Act, 1854.—"Provided always
that any Minister of Religion not connected
with any of the bodies enumerated in the
aforesaid Schedule to this Act annexed, who
shall present to any Registrar a certificate
signed by twenty-four householders resident
in the district for which such Registrar shall
be appointed, declaring that such Minister is
their Officiating Minister, shall be entitled to
have his name inserted in the list of Officiating
Ministers in the meaning of this Act: Pro-
vided always that such certificate shall be
attested by two Justices of the Peace, and such
attested certificate shall be sent in to the
Registrar-General or other Officer as aforesaid
in the month of December in every
year, and no such attested certificate pre-
sented to any Registrar by any Minister as
aforesaid shall continue in force unless
renewed in like manner."
The provision printed in italics in the forego-
ing
extract has been amended as follows:—
Sec. 2, Marriage Act Amendment Act, 1868.—
"So much of the forty-second section of "The
Marriage Act, 1854," as provides that the
certificate in the said section referred to shall
be attested by two Justices of the Peace is
hereby repealed, and in lieu thereof it is
enacted that the signatures to any such cer-
tificate referred to in the said section of the
said Act shall be attested by some person who
shall verify the same by solemn declaration
before a Justice of the Peace, in the form set
forth in the Schedule hereto, and appended to
such certificate, and signed by such person;
and if any person shall make any such de-
claration falsely, he shall be guilty of a misde-
meanour."
"SCHEDULE.
"I, A.B., do solemnly and sincerely declare that
all the signatures affixed to the above certi-
ficate are the genuine signatures of the persons
whose they purport to be.
A.B.
Taken before me, this day of
A.D. 18 . C.D.,
A Justice of the Peace for the
Colony of New Zealand."
I have therefore to request that, before the termi-
nation of the month of December next ensuing, the
Names of all Officiating Ministers be sent in to me,
duly certified, in order that such Names may be
entered in a List, a copy of which will be published
in the New Zealand Gazette, in the month of January,
1874.
WM. R. E. BROWN,
Registrar-General.
N.B.—It is requested that the Christian Names
and the Addresses of the several Ministers may be
specified in the lists sent in to the Registrar-General.
W. R. E. B.
COMPARATIVE RETURN of NUMBER OF TELEGRAMS forwarded, the REVENUE received, and the VALUE of GOVERNMENT TELEGRAMS transmitted, for the Quarters ended 30th September, 1872 and 1873.
| MONTH. | TELEGRAMS (1872) | TELEGRAMS (1873) | TELEGRAMS INCREASE | TELEGRAMS DECREASE | REVENUE (1872) | REVENUE (1873) | REVENUE INCREASE | REVENUE DECREASE | VALUE (1872) | VALUE (1873) | VALUE INCREASE | VALUE DECREASE | REMARKS. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| July ... | 44,056 | 52,155 | 8,099 | ... | £ 3,036 6 0 | £ 3,479 15 0 | £ 443 9 0 | ... | £ 785 11 0 | £ 1,079 0 0 | £ 293 9 0 | ... | ... |
| August ... | 46,556 | 52,429 | 5,873 | ... | 3,504 15 0 | 3,532 1 3 | 27 5 9 | ... | 691 16 6 | 1,002 0 6 | 340 7 3 | ... | ... |
| September | 42,417 | 54,400 | 11,983 | ... | 3,134 4 0 | 3,822 14 0 | 688 10 0 | ... | 655 9 6 | 3,822 14 0 | 346 11 0 | ... | ... |
| Increase | 133,029 | 158,984 | 25,955 | ... | 9,675 5 6 | 10,834 10 3 | 1,159 4 9 | ... | 2,132 17 0 | ... | 980 7 3 | ... | ... |
| Decrease | 25,955 | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... |
New Zealand Telegraph, Head Office, Wellington, 24th November, 1873.
C. LEMON, General Manager.
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