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sistent with the provisions of this Act be and the same are
hereby repealed.

SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall
take effect on June 1, 1943.

Approved May 6, 1943.

CHAPTER 718.
(Senate Bill 245)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Sec-
tion 5 of Article 62 of the Annotated Code of Maryland
(1939 Edition), title "Marriages", as amended by Chap-
ter 529 of the Acts of 1941, relating to the power of
Judges to authorize the Clerk to deliver license for mar-
riage before expiration of forty-eight (48) hours after
application therefor.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Section 5 of Article 62 of the Annotated Code of
Maryland (1939 Edition), title "Marriages", as amended
by Chapter 529 of the Acts of 1941, be and it is hereby
repealed and re-enacted, with amendments, to read as fol-
lows:

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 per-
sonally 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 rela-
tionship; seventh, if ever divorced; which facts upon the
payment of one dollar ($1. 00) as an application fee shall
be set out in printed form to be signed by the person mak-
ing the application, and no such license to marry shall be
delivered by the Clerk until after the expiration of forty-
eight (48) hours from the time application is made there-
for; provided, however, that any Judge of the Circuit
Court of the county in which the application is made or, if
made in Baltimore City, any judge of the Court of Common
Pleas, for good and sufficient cause shown, may, by an
order in writing signed by him, authorize the Clerk to de-