1498 MARRIAGES. [ART. 62

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 thou-
sand ————, at ————, A———— B———— and C————
D————, were by me united in marriage in accordance with
the license issued by the clerk of the ———— court for ————
county (or city), Maryland; which certificates 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 handed 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 was issued.

Boone v. Purnell, 28 Md. 607. Denison v. Denison, 35 Md 361. Redgrave
v Redgrave, 38 Md. 97. State v. Davis, 70 Md. 239

1888, art. 62, sec. 5. 1860, art 60, sec 5. 1686, ch. 497.

5. Before the clerk of any of said courts shall issue any
such license, he shall examine, on oath, the person making
application for 'the same to ascertain first, the full names of
the parties; second, their places of residence; third, their
ages; fourth, their color; fifth, whether married or single;
sixth, whether ' related or not, and if so, in what degree of
relationship; which facts shall be set out in a printed form to
be signed by the person making the application.

Ibid. sec. 6. 1860, art. 60, sec. 6. 1865, ch. 130. 1866, ch. 102.
1882, ch. 357. 1886, ch. 497.

6. The clerk of each of said courts shall procure and keep
a suitable and well-bound book in his office and among his
records to be called "The Marriage License Book," in which
he shall make a complete record of the issuing of said license
and all the matters which he shall be required to ascertain
relative to the rights of said parties to obtain'said license, in
which record shall appear in regular order the items testified
to by the applicants for the marriage license as above set forth;
and the names of each of the contracting parties shall be
properly indexed; and upon the return of the certificate afore-
said it shall appear in said record when the same was filed
and the name of the minister, or other person or persons by
whom the ceremony was performed.
State v. Floto, 81 Md. 601.

Ibid. sec. 7. 1886, ch 497

7. No such license shall issue unless the male be above the
age of twenty-one years and the female above the age of six-