Fiji Marriage Act, 1878
WHEREAS, before the erection of the islands of Fiji into a British Colony, certain marriages of British subjects were solemnized by ministers of the Christian religion in accordance with the custom then in use, such marriages not having been solemnized according to the provisions of the Act of the session of the twelfth and thirteenth years of the reign of Her Majesty, chapter sixty-eight, intituled "An Act for facilitating the Marriages of British subjects in foreign countries:" And whereas ...