ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR. 683
CHAPTER 380.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendments Section 4
of Article 62 of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1924
Edition), title "Marriages, " relating to the solemnization of
marriages.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That Section 4 of Article 62 of the Annotated Code
of Maryland (1924 Edition), title "Marriages, " be and the
same is hereby repealed and re-enacted with amendments to
read as follows:

4. The following persons are authorized to solemnize mar-
riages in this State; any minister of the Gospel, or official of a
religious order or body authorized by the rules and customs of
said order or body to join persons in marriage.

No person within this State shall be joined in marriage until
a license shall have been obtained from the Clerk of the Cir-
cuit Court for the county in which the marriage is to be per-
formed, or if in Baltimore City, from the Clerk of the Court
of Common Pleas, or unless the names of the parties intending
to marry shall be thrice published in some church or house of
public worship in the county where the woman resides on three
several Sundays by some minister residing in said county;
provided, nevertheless, that any person within this State may
marry according to the ceremony used by the society of people
called Quakers, the contracting parties signing a certificate to
the effect that they have agreed to take each other for husband
and wife, and said certificate being attested by at least twelve
witnesses; and provided, further, that said certificate shall
within sixty days be recorded either among the records of the
society to which either of the contracting parties may belong,
or in some court of record in the city or county in which said
marriage may be accomplished. The license required by this
article shall be in the following form, to wit: State of Maryland
and County of...... To any minister of the Gospel, or other

officer or person authorized by the laws of the State to solemnize
marriage: You are hereby authorized to join together in the
holy estate of matrimony according to the rules and ceremonies
of your church, society or religious sect and the laws of this
State, or according to the laws of this State, A. B., whose place
of residence is.......; whose age is.......; color.......;

and who is (state here whether single, widower, or divorced,