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Show MARRIAGE IN CUBA. Justice has come tardily to the Catholics Cath-olics of Cuba. It is announced that the new ecclesiastical marriage law, revoking revok-ing the infamous decree issued in May, 1899, by General Brooke, will go into effect next Monday. The Brooke edict prohibited ecclesiastical marriages, recognizing only the civil ceremony. After much consideration and taking into account the best opinion of ecclesiastical ec-clesiastical and political functionaries there, Governor General Wood directs that the ecclesiastical ceremony be recognized as on a basis of legality like that upon which it rests in the United States. From Monday next, therefore, parties wishing to marry may go through ecclesiastical or civil ceremony, cere-mony, or both, at their option. This decision de-cision restores to the church the privilege privi-lege it enjoyed prior to the American occupation. There never was any valid reason why the privileges should have been revoked. |