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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

the same is hereby repealed, and re-enact the same,
to read as follows :

Published in

Church.

No persons within this State shall marry with-
out a license, as hereinafter directed, or before the
names of the parties intending to marry shall be
thrice published in some church, or house of re-
ligious worship, in the county where the woman
resides, on three several Sundays, by some minis-
ter residing in said county. Nevertheless it is pro-
vided that any persons within this State may marry *1 V

Quarter.

according to the ceremony used by the society of
people called Quakers, provided the contracting
parties shall sign a certificate to the effect that
they have agreed to take each other for husband
and wile, and that the said certificate has been at-
tested by at least twelve witnesses ; and provided
further, that the said certificate shall, within sixty
days, be recorded either amongst the records of
the society to which either of the contracting par-
lies may belong, or in some court of record, in the
city or county in which the said marriage may he
accomplished.

In force,

Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That this Act shall
take effect from, the date of its passage.

Approved February 18, 1868.

CHAPTER 43.

AN ACT to authorize and direct the Judges of
the Court of Appeals of Maryland to hear im-
mediately the appeal now pending in said Court,
wherein the Mayor and City Council of Balti-
more is the appellant, and the Union Railroad
Company of Baltimore the appellee.

Hear appeal
immediately.

SECTION 1 . Be it enacted by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That the Judges of the Court of Ap-
peals of Maryland be and they are hereby author-
ized and directed, to hear immediately the appeal