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Proviso

Evidence to be

recorded.

License to
marry Degrees

MECHANICS' LIEN. [ART. 61.

and purpose, from the time of the celebration of
such marriages, respectively, and every such mar-
riage shall be held and taken by all courts of this
state to be good and sufficient in law, to all intents
and purposes; provided, that in every case the parties
claiming to have been married, by a competent per-
son, shall by sufficient proof before some justice of
the peace establish the fact of having been so mar-
ried, a certificate of which shall be filed with the
clerk of the circuit court of the county in which said
marriage was celebrated, or the court of common
pleas of Baltimore city, and be preserved with the
register of marriage licenses in the office of the said
clerk.
10. In all marriages hereafter celebrated between
colored persons, the parties or some one in their
behalf, shall present to the clergyman solemnizing
the rites of a marriage, a license, as required in
other cases of marriage ; and any such clergyman
is hereby prohibited from solemnizing such marriage
without the production of licenses.

In force from March 22, 1867.