744 . MARRIAGES.. [ACT. 62

ARTICLE LXII

MARRIAGES.

4. Licenses ; Quakers ; certificates. 16. Clerks to transmit to Bureau of

Vital Statistics monthly reports of marriages and divorces. 17. Foreign marriage record book.

1904, art. 62, sec. 4. 1888, art. 62, sec. 4. I860, art. 60, sec. 4. 1777, ch. 12,

sec. 3. 1865, ch. 130. 1866, ch. 102. 1868, ch. 42. 1882, ch. 357.

1886, ch 497. 1912, ch. 73.

4. No person within this State shall be joined in marriage until a
license shall have been obtained from the Clerk of the Circuit Court
for the county in which the marriage is to be performed, or if in Balti-
more City, from the Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, or unless
the names of the parties intending to marry shall be thrice published
in some church or house of public worship in the county where the
woman resides on three several Sundays by some minister residing in
said county; provided, nevertheless, that any person within this State
may marry according to the ceremony used by the society of people
called Quakers, the contracting parties signing a certificate to the effect
that they have agreed to take each other for husband and wife, and
said certificate being attested by at least twelve witnesses; and pro-
vided, further, that said certificate shall within sixty days be recorded
either among the records of the society to which either of the contract-
ing parties may belong, or in some court of record in the city or county
in which said marriage may be accomplished. The license required
by this article shall be in the following form, to wit: State of Mary-
land and County of ———. To any minister of the Gospel or other
officer or person authorized by the laws of the State to solemnize mar-
riage: You are hereby authorized to join together in the holy estate
of matrimony according to the rules and ceremonies of your church,
society or religious sect and. the laws of this State, A. B., whose place
of residence is ———; whose age is ———, color, ———, and who is (state
here whether single, widower or divorced, as the case may be), and C.
D., whose place of residence is ———, color ———, and who is (state
here whether single, widow or divorced, as the case may be), and who
are ——— (state here also whether the contracting parties are in any way
related). Given under my hand and seal of the Circuit Court for

——— County (or the Court of Common Pleas of Baltimore City) at

———, this ——— day of ———, A. D., one thousand nine hundred and

As to marrying unlawfully, see article 27, section 321, et seq.
As to "Bigamy," see article 27, section 20.