ART. 62] MARRIAGES. 745

———. The license shall have appended to it two certificates framed
to correspond with said license, which shall be in form as follows: I
hereby certify that on this ——— day of ———, one thousand nine hun-
dred and ———, at ———, A. B., and G. D. were by me united in mar-
riage in accordance with the license issued by the Clerk of the ———
Court for ——— County (or City), Maryland, which certificate shall be
signed by the minister or'other person who performed the ceremony,
giving his name and official character; one of said certificates shall be
Landed to the contracting parties and the other shall within thirty
days from the date of the marriage be returned to the clerk of the
Court from which it issued.

See notes to this section (as it stood in 1911) in volume 2 of the Anno-
tated Code.

11.*

1914, ch. 745.

16. It shall be the duty of the Clerk of the Court in Baltimore City
and in the several Counties of the State of Maryland to transmit to the
Bureau of Vital Statistics of the State Department of Health, upon
forms to be supplied by the said Bureau, a report of each marriage
which has been reported to them under the provisions of Article 62 of
the Annotated Code of Public General Laws of Maryland.

The report shall be made monthly and on or before the fifteenth
(15th) day of the month next succeeding.

It shall be the duty of the Clerk of the Court in Baltimore City and
in the several Counties of the State of Maryland to transmit to the
Bureau of Vital Statistics of the State Department of Health, a report

of the names and residences of the parties to suits for divorce entered
in said Court and to either of whom decree for divorce has been granted
by said Court.

The report shall be made monthly and on or before the fifteenth
(15th) day of the month next succeeding.

For transmitting the said reports to said Bureau the Clerks of the

Court shall receive no compensation other than that prescribed in Sec-
tion 10 of this Article.

Any Clerk who shall fail, within the time prescribed by this sec-
tion, to transmit the proper report to the Bureau of Vital Statistics of
the State Department of Health, shall upon conviction be subject to a
fine of ten dollars ($10) for each offense.

As to the Bureau of Vital Statistics, see article 43, section 7, et seq.

*The act of 1914, chapter 580, prohibits ministers and other persons authorized
to perform the marriage ceremony in Garrett County from giving any fee as
an inducement to any person to bring persons contemplating marriage to them
to perform the ceremony.