820 ARTICLE 62.

ARTICLE 62.

MARRIAGES.

4. License; who may perform ceremony ; publication in church ; Quakers; certificates.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 4. 1912, sec. 4. 1904, sec. 4. 1888. 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. 1927, ch. 380.

4. The following persons are authorized to solemnize marriages in this
State; any minister of the Gospel, or official of a religious order or body
authorized by the rules and customs of said order or body to join persons
in marriage.

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 Baltimore City, from
the Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, or unless the names of the par-
ties 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 provided, further, that said certificate shall within sixty
days be recorded either among the records of the society to which either of
the contracting 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
Maryland and County of........... To any minister of the Gospel, or

other officer or person authorized by the laws of the State to solemnize
marriage: 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, or according to 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