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Principal Caird, D.D., Dr. Chlamers, Canon Champneys, Dr. Adam Clark, Dean Close, Dr Croly, Dr. Summing, Canon Dale, Dr Dodd, Dr. Eadie, G. Gilfillan, C. J. Goodhart, J.N. Griffin, Canon Gurney, Archdeacon Hare, J. Hatchard, Archdeacon Hill, Dean Hook, Cannon Jenkins, Dr. Kitto, Professor Lee, Dr. Alexander Lindsay, Luther, Chancellor Martin, Dr. McCaul, W. B. Mackenzie, late Dr. Norman McLeod, Melancthon, Canon Miller, S. Minton, Dr. R. Moffat, J.B. Owen, Dr. J. Parr, H. Renton, Professor Robinson, Tynedale, Dr. R Wallace, John Wesley.
Statesmen—J. Quincy Adams, Lord Albermale, Charles Buxton, Lord Robert Cecil (Marquis of Salisbury), Marquis of Clanricarde, Fourth Earl Clarendon, Lord Chief Justice Cockburn, Solicitors General and Attorneys General, Collier, James, Harcourt, Holker, late Lord Chief Justice Denman, second Lord Ellenborough, Earl of Ellesmere, Dr. Franklin, fourth Viscount Gage, Earl Grey, Sir George Grey, T. E. Headlam, Sidney Herbet (Lord Herbet of Lea), Lord Houghton, Sir Fitzroy Kelly, Lord Chancellor Westbury, fourth Marquis of Landsdowne, Sir G.C. Lewis, Richard Cobden, John Bright, W. E. Gladstone, Robert Lowe, Lord Lyndhurst, Lord Macaulay, fourteenth Duke of Norfolk, Lord Overstone, Lord Palmerston, Lord Penzance, Sir S. M. Peto, J. A. Roebuck, Earl Russel, third Earl of St. Germans, the Sardinian Ambassador, Lord Wensleydale, Earl of Wharncliffe, Earl of Kimberley, J. Stuart Wortley; also the following gentleman of legal and literary eminence: The Twelve Judges (1870), A. Bach, Esq., the Brazilian Ambassador, Sir David Brewster, M. Delangle (Gard des Sccaux, France), Hon. E. Everett, Sir William Jones, Chancellor Kent Judge Livingston, Dr. Lushington, Judge Mason, Professor Max Muller, Milton, Lord Advocate Rutherford, Southey, Chief Justice Story, Dr. Tregellos, &c.
TEXT OF THE BILL.
Tho Bill of Mr Girouard, as amended in committee of the whole, reads as follows:—
"1. Marriage between a man and the sister of his deceased wife, or the widow of his deceased brother, shall be legal.
"2. All such marriages heretofore contracted, the parties whereto are living as husband and wife at the time of the passing of this Act, shall be held to have been lawfully contracted; but nothing herein contained shall affect any rights actually acquired by the issue of the first marriage previous to the passing of this Act; nor shall this section render legal any such marriage when either of the parties has afterwards, during the life of the other and before the passing of this Act, lawfully intermarried with any other person,"
CONTENTS.
| PAGE | ||
| Introduction | 1 | |
| Civil Code | 1 | |
| Letters. | 2 | |
| Mr. Girouard | 2 | |
| Bishop of Rimouski | 2 | |
| Montreal | 2 | |
| Three Rivers | 2 | |
| Sherbrooke | 2 | |
| Quebec | 2 | |
| St. Hyacinthe | 3 | |
| Bishop of Northern Canada | 3 | |
| Rev. Dr. Cordner | 4 | |
| Rev. Gavin Lang | 4 | |
| Bishop of Ottawa | 4 | |
| Mr. R. D. McGibbon | 5 | |
| Lex | 6 | |
| List of Supporters | 7 | |
| Text of Bill | 8 |
