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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

Powers of
clerks of
Circuit
Courts in
insolvent
cases.

well as the bond of the permanent trustee; take acknowledg-
ments to the deeds to the preliminary and permanent
trustees, and fix the day or days for the insolvent to appear
and answer interrogatories or allegations, and order notices to
be given to the creditors under such rules as the Circuit Court
may prescribe, and shall receive as compensation one dollar ;
provided, that no clerk shall in any case appoint the prelimi-
nary trustee of any applicant for the benefit of the insolvent
law, against whom there is pending at the time of his applica-
tion, a petition or petitions filed by his creditors under the
23d section of this article, but shall submit every such applica-
tion, together with all such petitions then pending against
such applicant, to one of the judges of the said courts for this
action.

Effective.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this act shall take
effect from the date of its passage.

Approved March 15th, 1894.

CHAPTER 94.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendments Section 11
of Article 62 of the Code of Public General Laws of
Maryland, title "Marriages."

Repeal.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That section eleven of article 62 of the Code of
Public General Laws, title "Marriages," be repealed and re-
enacted with amendments so as to read as follows :

License

necessary.

SEC. 2. Such license, when produced, shall be full authority
to any minister or other person authorized to marry, receiving
the same, to proceed with the marriage of the parties named
therein; provided, that should any minister or other person

Penalty tor
marrying
without
license.

marry persons without such license, he shall on conviction
thereof be fined not less than one hundred dollars nor more
than five hundred dollars, in the discretion of the Court; and
provided further, that any minister or other person so perform-
ing such marriage ceremony, who shall fail to return within

Certificate to
he returnerd.

the period of thirty days from the date of such marriage, to
the clerk of the Court issuing said license, one of the certifi-
cates of marriage mentioned in section four of this article,
shall on conviction thereof be fined not less than ten dollars.

Approved March 15th, 1894.