PUBLIC GENERAL LAW

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If the mother of a bastard child be able to prove that the begetter,

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being a single person, and a free man, did, before the begetting of

such child, promise her marriage, he shall be at his choice to per-

form his promise, or to recompense her abuse as the court shall

adjudge — 1715, ch. 44, sec. 29, ..

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Penalty on free negroes or mulattoes intermarrying with white persons

—1717, ch. 13, sec. 5, ......

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Fees allowed to ministers for marrying persons at the parish church,

or at their own houses, after publication— 1717, ch. 15, sec. 4,

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Marriages with any person related within any of the degrees of kindred

or affinity expressed in the table therein mentioned, shall be void

— February, 1777, ch. 12, sec. 1, ......

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See Notes to 1777, ch. 12.

The rites of marriage between white persons to be celebrated only by

ministers or priests ordained, or in the usual manner by quakers,

under the penalty of £500 — February, 1777, ch. 12, sec. 3,

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Ministers who knowingly celebrate the rites of marriage between any

persons prohibited by the aforesaid table shall forfeit £500, and

they are enjoined to make diligent inquiry to avoid the same — 1777,

ch. 12, sec. 4, ..........

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No person in the state shall marry without such license as is directed

by law, or before the names are thrice published in some church,

&c. or, (if a quaker,) before publication in the usual manner, under

the penalty of £500—1777, ch. 12, sec. 5, .

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Ministers marrying any person without such license or publication

shall forfeit £500—1777, ch. 12, sec. 5, ... .

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Ministers going out of their county, or out of the state, and marrying

persons belonging to the state without such license or publication,

shall forfeit £500—1777, ch. 12, sec. 5, .....

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Persons belonging to this state marrying with others belonging thereto

out of the state, shall be liable to the same punishment or penalty

as if the offence was committed in the state — 1777, ch. 12, sec. 6,

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Every Christian church, meeting-house, chapel, or other house of reli-

gious worship, shall be recorded in the records of the county, and

shall not otherwise be deemed such for publication of marriage —

1777, ch. 12, sec. 7, .........

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Every minister marrying by license shall annually, in November, re-

turn on oath a list of the names and the time when married, to the

treasurer of his shore, under the penally of £200—1777, ch. 12,

sec. 8, ......

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Ministers marrying any male under twenty-one, or any female under

sixteen, and not before married, without the consent of the parent

or guardian, shall forfeit £500— 1777, ch. 12, sec. 9, ...

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Where there is no minister in a pariah, the reader or clerk may publish

the banns of matrimony— 1777, ch. 12, sec. 10, .

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Ministers wilfully publishing the banns between servants, or between

a free person and a servant, or marrying any such without the mas-

ter's leave, shall forfeit £50—1777, ch. 12, sec. 11,

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