COLONIAL MARRIAGES BILL.
In the House of Commons on February 27th, the sitting was occupied in the discussion of the Colonial Marriages Bill, brought in by Mr Knatchbull-Hugessen, for enabling the children of colonial marriages with a deceased wife’s sister to succeed to real property in this country. Its rejection was moved by Mr Gregory, who maintained that its real object was to legalise these marriages by a side wind, and that there was no hardship to the colonists in upholding our own law. Mr Heygate, who seconded the amendment, pointed out that the divergence between the Marriage Law of England and Scotland was even greater; to which Mr Baxter replied that two blacks did not make a white, and urged that to refuse this act of justice would create serious ill-feeling in the colonies against the mother country. Mr Forsyth maintained that it was a still greater anomaly to declare a man to be legitimate in one country and a bastard in another. Sir T. Chambers, Mr 0. Morgan, and Mr Sergeant Simon also supported the Bill.
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Globe, Volume IX, Issue 1282, 29 April 1878, Page 3
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