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An Abridgement of the Laws in Force and Use in Her Majesty's Plantations; 1704
Volume 193, Page 45   View pdf image (33K)
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                    Maryland, now in force.                    45

    IV.  No persons absenting themselves out of this Province,
or that shall remove from County to County after
a Debt contracted, whereby their Creditors may
have difficulty of finding them or their Effects, shall
have any benefit by the Limitations in this Act specified.
    V.  Provided, this Act shall not bar any Person removing
from one County to another for his conveniency,
nor any person leaving this Province, from the benefit
of this Act, he leaving Effects sufficient for the Payment
of his just Debts, in the hands of some person or persons
who will assume the payment thereof.

                    M.

                Marriages.
    I.  An. 4. W. & M. 1692. p. 20.  All persons who
shall desire Marriage, shall apply themselves either
to a Minister, Pastor, or Magistrate for the contracting
thereof.

    II.  Publication of intended Marriage shall be made
either at the Church, Chappel, County Court or Meeting-house,
next where the parties dwell, at such times
when the said places shall be full; and upon Certificate
from the Minister, Pastor, or County Court, 3 weeks
after the said publication, either Minister, Pastor, or
Magistrate may join such persons in Marriage.  And if
any person shall presume to contract Marriage, without
such publication, and Certificate thereof, or particular 
Licence from the Governor, every person so Marry'd
shall be liable to a fine of 1000 l. of Tobacco, and every
Minister, Pastor, or Magistrate so joining any in Marriage,
shall be fined 5000 l. of Tobacco, one half
to the King for the support, &c. the other to the Informer.
    III.  All Marriages not made before some Minister,
Pastor, or Magistrate, with 5 sufficient Witnesses at least,
shall be null and void.


 

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