MARRIAGE - LICENSES. 



MARYLAND. 



465 



law allows ; certificate of oath and marriage 

 returned to the county clerk for record. No 

 registry of births. 



Miaouri. License by clerk, and certificate 

 returned to him for record. No registry of 

 births. 



Miitsippi. License issued by Registrar of 

 Orphans' Court, and certificate returned to 

 him for record. No registry of births. 



New ffampthire. The intention to marry 

 must be published at three meetings, either 

 religions or town meetings ; certificate of 

 town clerk of such publication is the license ; 

 it is returned to him and recorded. No regis- 

 try of births. 



New Jersey. No license is required ; but 

 certificate of marriage to be returned to town 

 clerk, and by him recorded. No registry of 

 births. 



New York. No license is required ; bnt 

 certificate of marriage must be returned to the 

 registrar of births, marriages, and deaths ; pro- 

 vision is also made for the return of all births, 

 but not generally enforced. 



North Carolina. License to be issued by 

 county judge or clerk, and the certificate re- 

 turned to clerk, who records it. No registry 

 of births. 



Nebratica. Judge of Probate issues license, 

 and certificate is returned to that officer, and 

 he records it. No registry of births. 



Nevada. No license required ; certificate 

 returned to county clerk, who records it. 

 No registry of births. 



Ohio. Bans may be published in church, or 

 a license from clerk of county court, to whom, 

 in either case, certificate is returned for rec- 

 ord. No registry of births. 



Oregon. No license is required ; but cer- 

 tificates returned for record to recorder of the 

 county court. No registry of births. 



Pennsylvania. No license required; bnt 

 the person solemnizing the marriage must keep 

 record. No registry of births. 



Shade hlnnd. No license required; but 

 return must be made by person solemnizing 

 marriage to town clerk for record. No regis- 

 try of birth*. 



South Carolina. License from the clerk of 

 the county court, and return made to him for 

 record. No registry of births. 



Tennettee. License from clerk of county 

 court, and return of certificate to him for rec- 

 ord. No registry of births. 



Texa*. License from clerk of Probate Court, 

 and return of certificate to him for record. No 

 registry of births. 



Vermont. Publication in either church or 

 town meeting ; certificate returned to town 

 clerk for record. No registry of births. 



Virginia. License from the county court, 

 and return of certificate to the court for record. 

 No registry of births. 



Wet Virginia. License from clerk of the 

 county court ; certificate returned to that 

 officer for record. No registry of births. 



TOt. XIII. 30 A 



Wisconsin. Persons solemnizing to examine 

 one of the parties on oath ; to make certificate 

 and return the same to the county clerk for 

 record. 



Colorado. No marriage-license required ; 

 but certificate to be returned by the party sol- 

 emnizing to the clerk of the county for record. 

 No registry of births. In this Territory if a 

 married man dies without a will or issue, all 

 his property, real and personal, goes to his 

 widow. 



Dakota. No marriage-license required, and 

 no record kept. Judges, justices of the peace, 

 and ministers of the gospel, may solemuize. 

 No registry of births. 



Idaho. No license required ; hut party 

 solemnizing must, within three months, re- 

 turn certificate of, to county recorder for 

 record. No registry of births. 



Utah. No license required, and no registry 

 of either marriages or births. 



Washington. No license required ; but cer- 

 tificate to be returned by the party solemniz- 

 ing to the county recorder for record. No 

 registry of births. 



New Mexico. No license required, and no 

 registry of marriages or births. 



In the several States and Territories penal- 

 ties are imposed by the statutes for a failure 

 to comply with the requirements as to license 

 or return of the certificate in some cases 

 against the parties to the contract, in other 

 cases against the party solemnizing the mar- 

 riage, and in some instances against all par- 

 ties ; but in none of the States or Territories 

 is the marriage null and void because of a 

 non-compliance with the requirements of the 

 statute. 



MARYLAND. The report of the Con- 

 troller of the Treasury Department for the 

 year ended September 80, 1873, shows that 

 the total receipts from all sources during the 

 year were $2,482,677.48, which, added to the 

 balance at the end of the fiscal year 1872, viz., 

 $339,171.10, make the total amount in the 

 Treasury during the fiscal year 1873, $2,771,- 

 848.58; $301,125 was derived from the issue 

 of the Maryland loan authorized by act of 

 1872, chapter 366; $65,082.50 was realized 

 from the sale of $65,000 of Maryland Defense 

 Loan, issued to reimburse the Treasury for 

 bounties formerly paid in excess of receipts 

 from the county funds. This latter sum was 

 paid to the Southern Maryland Railroad Com- 

 pany, in pursuance of the act of 1868, chapter 

 454. The receipts from ordinary sources were 

 hut $1,814,348.96, which is less than the rev- 

 enue from ordinary sources during the year 

 1872 by the sum of $62,020.43. The receipts 

 have fallen below the estimates, because a 

 number of the railroad companies, coal com- 

 panies, and national banks, are still resisting 

 the taxes imposed by law. A large item has 

 been lost to the Treasury in the failure of the 

 last Legislature to impose a license upon 

 sample traders. The revenue from this source 



