No. 65

I have had the honor to receive Your Lordship's despatch No 4
of 14 January enquiring whether I have received the Duke of
Buckingham's Circular despatch of the 6th of August 1868
respecting the proposed registration of Births, Marriages, and
Deaths. In reply I have to state that my despatch of the 27th
of October 1868 acknowledged the receipt of His Grace's circular
despatch in question.

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2. My despatch No 100 of 11 August, will have informed Your
Lordship that the subject was considered in the Executive
Council, and I was advised that the Ceylon regulations could not
be made to apply to this Colony.

3. I laid before the Legislative Council, by message, a copy of
the abstract of the Ceylon Registration Ordinances, which formed
part of the Duke of Buckingham's Circular Despatch of 6th of
August 1868, the Council however did not take action in the matter.