HENRY LLOYD, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

this State having criminal jurisdiction; one-
half of this fine shall be paid to the informer
and the other half to the State Treasury.

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SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That this act shall
take effect from the first day of November,
eighteen hundred and eighty-six.

Approved April 7, 1886.

CHAPTER 497.

AN ACT to repeal sections four, five, six, seven
and eight of article sixty of the Code of
Public General Laws, entitled " Marriages,"
as amended by chapter forty-two of the acts
passed at the January session, eighteen hun-
dred and sixty-eight, and to re-enact said
sections amended with additional sections
thereto.

SECTION 1 . Be it enacted by the General As-
sembly of Maryland, That sections four, five,
six, seven and eight of article sixty of the Code

Effective.

of Public General Laws, entitled " Marriages,"
as amended by chapter forty-two of the acts
passed at the January session, eighteen hun-
dred and sixty-eight, be and the same are here-
by repealed and re-enacted, amended, and with
additional sections thereto.

4. That from and after the first day of July,
eighteen hundred and eighty-six, no person
within this State shall be joined in marriage
until a license shall have been obtained from

Repealed and
re -enacted.

the Clerk of the Circuit Court of the county in
which the marriage is to be performed, or it'
in Baltimore city, from the Clerk of the Court
of Common Pleas, or unless the names of the
parties intending to marry shall be thrice pub-
lished in some church or house of religious
worship in the county where the woman re-
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Marriage li-
cense.