64                                Laws of Maryland                        [Ch. 54

Whereas, It has been ruled by the Attorney General of Maryland
that the definitive end of World War II so far as concerns the
State of Maryland occurred on April 28, 1952; and

Whereas, These provisions in Section 7 of Article 62 therefore
have been obsolete since the latter part of the year 1952 and should
be repealed; now, therefore

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Section 7 of Article 62 of the Annotated Code of Maryland
(1957 Edition), title "Marriages", be and it is hereby repealed and
re-enacted, with amendments, to read as follows:

7. How license issued.

Applications for license to marry may only be made, accepted or
received at the offices of the clerks of the courts aforesaid and
only during regular office hours. Licenses to marry may only be
issued at said offices and only during said hours and may be mailed
or delivered to either of the contracting parties to the marriage and
to no other person. It shall be unlawful for the clerks of any of
the courts aforesaid to predate any application for license to marry
and in case application has been made for a waiver of the forty-
eight (48) hour requirement in the manner provided in Section 6,
it shall be unlawful for any of the clerks aforesaid to issue or de-
liver any license to marry until the order authorizing the clerk to
deliver such license has been signed by the judge. [For the dura-
tion of the present war and six months after the termination there-
of, any of the foregoing provisions of this section may be waived
by the clerks of the courts aforesaid wherever one of the con-
tracting parties for whom a marriage license is sought is on active
duty as a member of the armed forces or of the Merchant Marine
of the United States and requests such waiver. No such waiver
shall be granted, however, until the clerks of the court aforesaid
have required the party applying for the such waiver, to exhibit
his or her credentials and identification papers and to furnish com-
plete information as to his or her rank, post where stationed and
branch of the armed forces or of the Merchant Marine to which
such party applying may be attached. The clerks of the courts
aforesaid shall record in a book specially provided for the purpose
the fact that such waiver has been requested and allowed and all
the reasons therefor including the information required by the clerks
aforesaid of the party applying. Where such credentials are pre-
sented by one of the parties for whom the said marriage license
is sought, the clerk shall issue such license to marry without waiting
the time prescribed in Section 6 or without the necessity of securing
an order of the circuit court, as prescribed therein, provided the
said parties applying for said marriage license have met the other
requirements of this section.] Any clerk who shall fail to comply
with the provisions of this section shall, upon conviction, be subject
to a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars ($100) for the first of-
fense and in the case of the second and each subsequent offense
shall be punished by a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars ($500)
or by imprisonment of not more than ninety (90) days, or by both.

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

Approved February 16, 1959.