J. MILLARD TAWES, GOVERNOR                               437

"Marriage", relating to certain information required upon ap-
plication for marriage license in Maryland, and other matters
generally related thereto.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Section 6 of Article 62 of the Annotated Code of Maryland
(1957 Edition), title "Marriage", be and it is hereby repealed and
re-enacted, with amendments, to read as follows:

6. Before the clerk of any of the courts aforesaid shall issue any
license he shall examine one of the contracting parties to the mar-
riage, under oath, who shall appear personally before the clerk and
make application for the same, and the clerk shall ascertain; first,
the full name of [the parties] each party; second, [their] the place
of residence of each party; third, [their age] the age of each party;
fourth, [their color] the color of each party; fifth, the marital
status of each party, whether previously married or single; sixth,
whether related or not, if so, in which degree of relationship; seventh,
[if ever divorced] if one or both of the parties has been previously
married, the date and place of all deaths and judicial determinations
terminating all former marriages of each party; 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 making 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 therefor; provided, however, that any judge of the circuit court
of the county in which the application is made or, if made in Balti-
more 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 deliver such license at any time after the ap-
plication therefor, but such order shall not be signed unless one or
both of the contracting parties are bona fide residents of Maryland,
except where one of the contracting parties is a member of the armed
forces of the United States. It shall be unlawful for the clerks of
any of the courts aforesaid to make public the fact of an application
for a marriage license until such license shall have been issued except
to the parent or guardian of either of the contracting parties.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
June 1, 1959.

Approved April 3, 1959.

CHAPTER 326
(House Bill 315)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 284 (e)
of Article 77 of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1958 Supple-
ment), title "Public Education", sub-title "Chapter 27. Free
Scholarships", relating to holders of certain scholarships in edu-

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