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6.

(a)   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 personally 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 re-
lationship; 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 making the application, and no such
license to marry shall be delivered by the clerk until after the ex-
piration 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 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 deliver such license at any time after
the application 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.

(b)  In Cecil County both of the contracting parties to the marriage
shall appear together personally before the clerk and make applica-
tion as hereinabove provided.

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

Approved April 8, 1959.

CHAPTER 457
(House Bill 364)

AN ACT to authorize the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore
to increase the number of the Trustees of the Walters Art Gallery.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That in addition to the nine trustees of the Walters Art Gallery,
Baltimore, Md., provided for by Section 4 of Chapter 217 of the
Acts of the General Assembly of Maryland of 1933, of whom three
are ex-officio, there shall be such ex-officio and elected trustees as

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