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CRIMES AND MISDEMEANORS, ETC. [ART. 72.

Id s 126
1777, c 12, s 4
Minister know-
ingly marrying
persons related
within pro-
hibited degrees.

105. If any minister shall knowingly celebrate the rites of mar-
riage between any persons related in the degrees of kindred and
affinity prohibited by law, he shall, on conviction, pay five hundred
dollars.

Penalty
Id s 127
1715, c 44, s 24
Minister marry-
ing negro with
write person
Fine

106, If any minister, pastor, or other person who, according to
the laws of this State, do usually join people in marriage, shall upon
any pretence join in marriage any negro with any white person, he
shall, on conviction, be fined one hundred dollars.

Id s 129
1777, c 12, s 3
Unauthorized
person celebrat-
ing rites of
marriage
Fine

107. If any person shall celebrate the rites of marriage between
any white persons except the persons authorized by the laws of this
State to celebrate the rites of marriage, such person, on conviction
thereof, shall be fined five hundred dollars.

Id s 130
1777, c 12,s 5
Marrying with-
out license or
publication.
Fine

108, If any person in this State shall marry without such license,
or without such publication as the law requires, on conviction, he
shall be fined one hundred dollars. This section does not apply to
Quakers, who marry according to the usages of their society.

Id s 131.
1777, c.l2, s 6
Going out of
State, and so
doing.
Fine

109. If any person belonging to this State, shall go out of this
State and there marry with any person belonging to this State,
without such license or publication, each of the said parties, on con-
viction, shall be fined one hundred dollars.

Id s 132
1777, c 12, s 5
Minister marry-
ing without
license.
Fine

110. If any minister shall marry any person without such license
or publication, on conviction thereof, he shall be fined one hundred
dollars.

Id s 133
1777, c 12, s 9
Minister marry-
ing minors
without consent
of parents or
guardian.

111. If any minister shall knowingly join in marriage any male
under the age of twenty-one years, or any female under the age of
sixteen years, and not before married, without the consent of the
parent or guardian of every such person, personally given or signi-
fied under the hand and seal of the said parent or guardian, and

Fine.

attested by two witnesses, he shall, on conviction, be fined fifteen
hundred dollars.

ADULTERY.

Art 30, s 1
1715, c 27,s 3;
1749, c 12
Adultery.
Fine

112. Any person who shall commit adultery shall, upon con-
viction thereof in any of the Circuit Courts for the counties of this
State or the Criminal Court of Baltimore, be fined ten dollars.

FORNICATION WITH NEGEOES.

Art 30, s 151
1715, c 44, s 26
Fornication
with negroes

113. Any white woman who shall suffer or permit herself to be
got with child, by a negro or mulatto, upon conviction thereof in the
court having criminal jurisdiction either in the city or county where
such child was begot, or where the same was born, shall be sentenced

Punishment.

to the penitentiary for not less than eighteen mouths nor more than
five years.

SODOMY.

Art 30, c 201
1793, c 57, s 10 ,
1809, c 138, s 4
Punishment for
sodomy
3 H 4 J. 154

114. Every person convicted of the crime of sodomy, shall be
sentenced to the pentitentiary for not less than one year nor more
than ten years.