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LAWS OF MARYLAND

Ch. 820

authorize the clerk to deliver the license at any time after
the application for it, but the order may 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 is unlawful for the clerks of any of the courts
to make public the fact of an application for a marriage
license until the license has been issued except to the
parent or guardian of either of the contracting parties.

14.

When one or both parties are residents of the State of
Maryland, the clerk of the court shall receive two dollars
for every license issued as aforesaid and for the
performance of the other duties required by this article;
where both parties are nonresidents of the State of
Maryland, the said clerk shall receive three dollars for
every license so issued. In Allegany, Baltimore, Caroline,
Cecil, Dorchester, Garrett, Harford, Howard, Montgomery and
Washington counties, and in Baltimore City, said clerks
shall be paid an additional two dollars for every license
and shall remit monthly the proceeds of said additional fee
to the county treasurer of their respective counties at the
end of every month for use as general funds of said county;
except that the clerk of the [Court of Common Pleas of]
CIRCUIT COURT FOR Baltimore City shall remit and shall
include the proceeds of the additional fee in his annual
return to the State Comptroller of all his fees, emoluments
and receipts under the provisions of § 2-205 of the Courts
Article of the Code.

19.

The [clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of Baltimore
City and the] clerks of the circuit courts of the [several]
counties having charge of the issuing of marriage licenses
and the recording of marriages in this State, as prescribed
by existing law, shall record in a separate book, to be kept
for the purpose and entitled "Foreign Marriage Record Book,"
all certificates of marriage issued by clergymen or by
officials solemnizing such marriages and all official
certified copies of marriage records where one or both of
the parties contracting the same were or are citizens of
this State and where the marriage was contracted in some
other state, territory, District of Columbia or foreign
country wherever the same are presented to said clerks for
record.

And said clerks shall issue when requested so to do,
certificates of such records under the seal of the court
where so recorded, as is now customary in the case of
marriages contracted in this State, and shall have power to
charge the usual fee for and recording such certificates and
for furnishing certified copies of such records.