Arthur Wm. Gordon, Greenock & Elizabeth Smith, Greenock (31 Dec. 1879)

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S Michaud
Deputy of Lieutenant-Governor

PROVINCE OF ONTARIO.

By His Honour The Honourable DONALD ALEXANDER MACDONALD, &c., &c.,
Lieutenant-Governor of the Province of Ontario

Whereas, Arthur William Gorton of the Township
of Greenock in the county of Bruce,
Province of Ontario and Dominion of
Canada, Bachelor and Elizabeth Smith
of the Township County Province
and Dominion aforesaid, Spinster

are determined to enter into the Holy Bans of Matrimony, and are desirous of having their Marriage publicly solemnized; in order that such their
honest desires may the more speedily have the due effect, and that they may be able to procure the same to be lawfully solemnized without publi-
cation of Bans, I do hereby, for good causes, give and grant this License of Faculty as well as to them, the said parties contracting, as to all or
every person or Minister, duly ordained and lawfully exercising his Ministry within the Province of Ontario to solemnize and perform the same:
Provided always that by reason of any Affinity, Consanguinity, Precontract or any other lawful cause, there be no legal impediment in this behalf,
otherwise, if any fraud shall appear to have been committed, at the time of granting this License either by false suggestions, or concealment of the
truth, that then this License shall be null and void, to all intents and purposes whatsoever.

GIVEN under my Hand and Seal at Arms, at Toronto this
First day of August
in the year of Our Lord, one thousand eight hundred
and seventy-nine, and in the forty-third year of Her
Majesty's reign.

Issued this 31st day
of December 1879

M. Maclean
Issuer of Marriage Licenses for the County of