1132 LAWS OF MARYLAND [CH. 550

CHAPTER 549.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Sections
5 and 7 of Article 62 of the Public General Laws of
Maryland (Bagby), title, "Marriages," raising the age
at which a person may obtain a marriage license as a
contracting party to a marriage in the State of Mary-
land, and making it mandatory that one of the applicants
must appear in person before the marriage license clerk
in order to obtain said license.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That Sections 5 and 7 of Article 62 of the Public
General Laws of Maryland (Bagby), title, "Marriages," be,
and the same are, hereby repealed and re-enacted, with
amendments, as follows:

SEC. 5. Before the Clerk of any of the Courts aforesaid
shall issue any license he shall examine one of the contracting
parties to the marriage, under oath, who shall appear person-
ally before the Clerk and make application for the same, and
the Clerk shall ascertain: first, the full name of the parties;
second, their place of residence ; third, their age ; fourth, their
color; fifth, whether married or single; sixth, whether related
or not, if, so, in which degree of relationship; seventh, if
ever divorced; which facts shall be set out in printed form
to be signed by the person making the application.

SEC. 7. No such license shall issue unless the male be
above the age of twenty-one years and the female above the
age of eighteen years; provided, however, that if the parents
or guardian assent thereto, in person or by writing, attested
by two witnesses, such license may issue and the fact of such
assent shall be made part of the record aforesaid.
Approved April 16, 1920.

CHAPTER 550.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Sections
74 and 75 of Article 24 of the Code of Public Local Laws
of Maryland, as codified by John W. Staton, and legal-
ized by the General Assembly of Maryland of 1914. and
amended by virtue of Chapter 212 of the Acts of 1918,
title, "Worcester County," sub-title, "County Commis-
sioners. ''