Milford chronicle., 1911-04-21

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record book and filed iD the office
of the clerk Of the peace for reference.
The loose leaf shall be returned
by the justice of peace issuing the
/ license to the clerk of the peace
within 10 days after such issuance,
and if he shall fail to do so, be shall
be deemed guilty of misoemeanor
and shall be fined SIS.
Section s Prescribes the form Of
the marriage, license and Of the GER
tifcate of marriage the latter to be
issued in duplicate and adds:
One of said certificates shall be
given to the parties at the time of
their marriage and the other shall
within 10 days be returned to the
clerk of the peace of the county in
which the license was issued by the
person officiating at said marriage
and the said clerk Of the peace shall
thereupOn enter in the marriage
record book the date Of said mar.
-riage and the name of the person
performing said ceremony and the
said marriage record book so kept
shall be open for inspection and
shall be admitted as evidence of the
facts therein contained in any court
of record.
Provided, however, when mar
riages are performed in the city of
Wilmington said certificates shall be
returned as aforesaid to the registrar
OF vital statistics of the city Of Viii
mington, and upon the failure Of
any person officiating at any mar
riage to return the certificate to the
registrar Of vital statistics of the city
of Wilmington within 10 days, he
shall be subject to the same penalty
as provided in Section Z of this act.
Where a marriage is contracted ac-
cording to the forms and usages Of
religious society, the wording of the
certificates may be altered, in accord
ance with the facts of the case and
the forms and usages of such religi-
Gus sOciety-the one to be sent to
clerk of the peace to conform as
nearly as possible to the form given
above.
Section If any person officiat-
ing at said marriage shall fail to re-
turn to the office of the clerk of the
peace the certificate within ten days
as herelnbefore provided, he shall be
deemed guilty of misdemeanor and
shall be fined $25.
liza certificate of marriage is found
upon its return to the clerk of the
peace to have been knowingly or
wilfully falsely filled out by the
person who solemnized a marriage
under it, the clerk of the peace shall |
have corrected and said person shall |
be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall
be fined S25.
Section Sit shall be unlawful |
for any person to advertise in a news
paper circulated in this State, or by /
any other means, to procure the per-
fOrmance of the marriage ceremony. |
Whoever violates any portion OF
the foregoing prohibition shall be
deemed guilty Of a misdemeanor and |
shall be fined not less than $40 nor
more than S25.
Section 9-In the event that any
section of this act or part thereof
shall be held to he unlawful by a
court of competent jurisdiction, such
shall not affect the
other portions of this act.
All acts and parts of acts incon-
sistent herewith are hereby repealed.
Approved April 10th, A. D 1911.
A book Of 100 licenses was sent to
he clerk of the peace in each of the
.hreec Ounties Tuesday of last week.
The former licenses are now of no
egal value and will be returned to
he State auditor, for use in settling
he accoupts of the secretary of