746 MARRIAGES. [ART. 62

1912, Ch. 69.

17. The clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of Baltimore City
and the clerks of the Circiut Courts of the several counties having
charge of the issuing of marriage licenses and the recording of mar-
riages in this State, as prescribed by existing law, shall record in a
separate book, to be kept for the purpose and entitled "Foreign Marri-
age Record Book," all certificates of marriage issued by clergymen or
by officials solemnizing such marriages and all official certified copies
of marriage records where one or both of the parties contracting the
same were or are citizens of this State and where the marriage was
contracted in some other state, territory, District of Columbia or foreign
country wherever the same are presented to said clerks for record.

And said clerks shall issue when requested so to do, certificates of
such records under the seal of the court where so recorded, as is now
customary in the case of marriages contracted in this State, and shall
have power to charge the usual fee for and recording such certificates.
and for furnishing certified copies of such records.