Marrying minor without prescribed

consent.

Unqualified person celebrating marriage.

Contracting marriage under Ördinance when already married by native law.

Contracting marriage by native law when already married

under Ordi. nance.

3. Wilfully celebrates a marriage contrary to any provi-
sion of this Ordinance, or knowing that any provision
of this Ordinance has not been complied with, or
4. Wilfully omits to fill up the certificate of any marriage
celebrated by him or the counterfoil thereof, or fails
to transmit the same to the Registrar as required by
this Ordinance, shall be guilty of an offence, and on
conviction thereof before the Supreme Court, shall be
liable to a fine not exceeding one hundred pounds,
or to imprisonment with or without hard labour for
a term not exceeding five years, or to both.
5. Whosoever knowing that the written consent required
by this Ordinance has not been obtained, shall
marry or assist or procure any other person to marry
a minor under the age of twenty-one years, not
being a widow or widower, shall be guilty of an
offence, and on conviction thereof before the Supreme
Court, shall be liable to a fine not exceeding one
hundred pounds, or to imprisonment with or without
hard labour for any term not exceeding two years,
or to both.

6. Any person who shall knowingly and wilfully celebrate
or pretend to celebrate any marriage under this
Ordinance, not being legally competent so to do,
shall be guilty of an offence, and on conviction
thereof before the Supreme Court, shall be liable to
a fine not exceeding one hundred pounds, or to
imprisonment with or without hard labour for any
term not exceeding five years, or to both.

7. Any person who contracts a marriage under the provi-
sions of this Ordinance being at the time married in
accordance with native law or custom to any person
other than the person with whom such marriage is con-
tracted shall be guilty of bigamy, provided always that
any person convicted of bigamy under this section
shall not be sentenced to a longer term of imprison-
ment than five years with or without hard labour.
8. Any person who having contracted a marriage under
this Ordinance, shall during the continuance of such
marriage contract a marriage in accordance with
native law or custom, shall be guilty of an offence,
and on conviction thereof before the Supreme Court,
shall be liable to be imprisoned with or without
hard labour for any term not exceeding two years.

documents.

43. Whosoever shall forge the signature of any person to Forging any document, book, paper or writing hereby required to be altering or signed, or shall wilfully alter, erase, deface, destroy, tamper defacing with, or remove any such document, book, paper, or writing, hereby required to be made, kept or used, shall be guilty of an offence, and on conviction thereof before the Supreme Court, shall be liable to a fine not exceeding one hundred pounds, or to imprisonment with or without hard labour for any term not exceeding ten years, or to both.

to be com

44. All proceedings under this Ordinance for any offence Proceedings thereunder shall be commenced within the space of two years menced after the commission of the offence, and shall be by informa- within two tion signed by the Queen's Advocate, or the Crown Prosecutor, offence comor by order of the Governor or any Divisional Judge.

years after

mitted.

45. The fees specified in the second Schedule hereto shall Fees. be paid to the Registrars for the several matters to which they are applicable, and shall be paid by them into the Colonial Treasury.

46. The Governor may, when he is satisfied of the poverty Fees may be of the parties, reduce the amount of the said fees, or remit remitted on them altogether; and if they have been paid into the Treasury, poverty. order their refund.

ground of

47. This Ordinance shall not preclude a minister from Ministers receiving the fees ordinarily paid to a minister of his denomi- may receive nation for the celebration of marriage.

48. The forms contained in the Schedule hereto may be used in the cases to which they are applicable with such alterations as may be necessary.

49. The Ordinance shall be cited for all purposes as "The Marriage Ordinance, 1884," and shall commence and come into operation upon such day as shall be fixed by proclamation under the hand of the Governor to be published in the Gazette.

Passed in the Legislative Council, this nineteenth day of November, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-four.

W W. HULL,

Clerk of the Legislative Council.

I assent to this Ordinance, this 19th day of November,

1884.

WILLIAM A. G. YOUNG, Governor

customary fees.

Forms in schedule may

be used.

Short title

and com

mencement.

*Proclaimed December 31, 1885.

Registrar's Certificate.

registrar of marriages in the

district in the Gold Coast Colony, do hereby certify that on the day of notice was duly entered in "The Marriage Notice Book" of this district, of the marriage intended between the parties herein named and described, such notice being delivered under the hand of one of the parties, that is to say:

Date of certificate given

18

18

James Town,

Accra
(as case may be).

No caveat has been entered against the issue of this certificate,

or

A caveat was entered against the issue of this certificate on the day of but it has been cancelled.

Witness my hand this

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18

A.B., Registrar of Marriages.
District.

NOTE. This certificate will be void, unless the marriage is solemnized on or before the

day of

FORM B.

18

(A.B.)

Special Licence.

Whereas A.B. and C.D. desire to intermarry, and sufficient cause has been shown to me why the preliminaries required by the Marriage Ordinance should be dispensed with:

Now, therefore, in pursuance of the said Ordinance, I do dispense with the giving of notice and the issue of the certificate thereby prescribed, and do hereby authorise any registrar of marriages, or recognized minister of some religious denomination or body, to celebrate marriage between the said A.B. and C.D., at (place of celebration), between the hours of 8 o'clock in the forenoon and 6 o'clock in the afternoon, and within days from the date hereof.

Given under my hand, this

day of Signed

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Governor.

FORM C.

Gold Coast Ordinance No. 18 Gold Coast Ordinance. No. 18

This printed impression has been carefully compared by me with the Bill which has passed the Legislative Council, and found to be a true and correct copy of the said Bill.

W. W. HULL,

Clerk of the Legislative Council.

Title.

Date.

Preamble.

WILLIAM ALEXANDER GEORGE YOUNG, Esquire, C.M.G.,
Governor.

No. 16.-1884.

AN ORDINANCE to control recruiting in the Gold Coast Colony for the service of foreign states.

[18th December, 1884. Whereas it is expedient that the Governor in Council should exercise full control over recruiting in the Gold Coast Colony for the service of foreign states;