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ing, on conviction thereof, shall forfeit and pay fifteen hundred
dollars, or be banished the State forever.

125. If any person shall marry with any person related within
any other of the degrees of kindred or affinity prohibited by the
laws of this State, each of the parties so marrying shall, on con-
viction thereof, forfeit and pay five hundred dollars.
126. If any minister shall knowingly celebrate the rites of
marriage between any persons related in the degrees of kindred
and affinity prohibited by law, he shall, on conviction, pay five
hundred dollars.

127. If any minister, pastor, or other person who, according
to the laws of this State, do usually join people in marriage,
shall upon any pretence join in marriage any negro with any
white person, he shall, on conviction, be fined one hundred
dollars.

128. If any free negro intermarry with any white woman, or
if any white man shall intermarry with any negro woman, on
conviction thereof, such negro shall become a slave during life,
and such white man or white woman who shall so intermarry,
shall become servants during the term of seven years. All per-
sons convicted under this section shall be disposed of as the court
shall think fit; the proceeds to be applied to the public schools.
No mulatto, born of a white woman, shall become a servant for
more than seven years, under this section.

129. If any person shall celebrate the rites of marriage be-
tween any white persons except the persons authorized by
the laws of this State to celebrate the rites of marriage, such
person, on conviction thereof, shall be fined five hundred
dollars.

130. If any person in this State shall marry without such
license, or without such publication as the law requires, on con-
viction, he shall be fined one hundred dollars. This section does
not apply to Quakers, who marry according to the usages of their
society.

131. If any person belonging to this State, shall go out of this
State and there marry with any person belonging to this State,