The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1913-08-07
EUGENIC MARRIAGE LAW.

ture reads as follows:
Section l. There is added to the
statutes new section to read: Section
2339m. /. All male persons making
application for license to marry shall
at any time within fifteen days prior
to such application, be examined as to
the existence in such person of any ven-
ereal disease, and it shall be unlawful
for the county clerk of any county to
issue license to marry to any person
who fails to present and file with such
county clerk a certificate setting forth
that such person is free from acquired
venereal diseases so nearly as can be
determined by physica, examination
and by the application of the recognized
clinical and laboratory tests of scientific
search. Such certificate shall be made
by licensed physician, and shall be
filed with the application for license to
marry.
2. Such examiners shall be physici-
ans duly licensed to practice in this
state, shall be persons of good moral
character and of scientific attainments
and at least thirty years of age. The fee
for such examination, to be paid by the
applicant for examination before the
certificate shall be granted, shall not
exceed three dollars. The county ply
sician of any county shall, upon request,
make the necessary examination ano
issue such certificate, if the same can
properly be'issued, without charge to
to the applicant, if said applicant be
INDECENT.
3. Whenever there is dispute or
disagreement regarding the findings of
any medical examiner, laboratory tests
shall be made in the state laboratory
of hygiene from material submitted by
such examiner, and the findings of the
said laboratory shall be accepted as
evidence of the presence or absence in
the person examined of any veneral
disease.
4. In any case wherein the certificate
of health required by subsection | of
this section shall be refused and the
applicant shall make file with the
county clerk of the proper county an
affidavit setting forth the fact that
such applicant has not had fair and
impartial examination and that he is
entitled to such certificate of health, it
shall be the duty of such county clerk
to certify such proceedings, at once, to
thu coanty couru of saan county with
out formality or expense to such ap-
plicant. Such application shall be
heard by Judge of said court, at the
earliest time practicable, without a
jury in court or in chambers, during
the term or in vacation as the case may
be. Notice of the time and place of
such hearing shall be given to such ap-
plicant by mail. A certified copy of
an order of such judge upon his find
ings in such matter determining that
such applicant is entitled to such GER
titicate of health presented and filed
with such county clerk, shall have the
same force and effect as such certificate
and such county clerk shall thereupon
issue license to marry, to such APP
plcant.
5. Any person resident of this state,
who with intent to evade the provi-
sens of this act shall go into another
state and there have marriage SOL
emnized and who within one year from
date of such marriage shall return and
reside in this state, shall upon infor-
nation of knowledge to the district
attorney of any county be required by
him to file with the county clerk of
any county in which such person may
be then resident, certificate of ex.
animation from such physician as set
forth in this section. Any person vioat-
ing the provisions of this subsection
shall be punished by Imprisonment in
the county jail not less than thirty days
nor more than one year.
g.. Any county clerk who shall un-
lawfully issue license to marry to
any person who fails to present and
file the certificate provided by subsec-
tion of this section, or any party or
parties having knowledge of any mat
ter relating or pert aiming to the exam
ination of any applicant for license to
marry, who shall disclose the same,
or any portion thereof, except as may
be required by law, shall upon proof
thereof be guilty of a felony, and shall
be punished by Imprisonment in the
state prison not less than one year nor
more than five years,
I. Any physician who shall know
ingly and wilfully make any false
statement in the certificate provided
for in subsection l OF this section shall
be guilty of prejury and upon convic-
tion shall be punished as for perjury,
and a conviction under this subsection
shall revoke the license of such physi-
clan to practice in this state.
Section 3. This act shall take effect
on and after January /, 1914.
Approved August |, 1913.