Evening star., 1924-02-27
MARRIAGE CURB
PROPOSED IN BILL
Maryland Legislator Would
Require Pastors to Reg
lister in Court.
Special Dispatch to The star.

special Dispatch to The star.
ANNAPOLIS, Nd. February 81
Delegate Alfred Sharp of Baltimore
ty or city court before performing
land house of delegates yesterday re-
Quiring all ministers to obtain a Ger
titicate of registration from the coun-
Ing eligible for registration, failed.
amy marriage ceremony. In addition
both contracting parties to a mar
riage are required to appear before
the clerk OF the circuit court in the
county in which they wish to lie mar
ried and submit to a verbal examina-
ton before being granted licenses to
wed. \ minister who is nonresf-
dent VIII have to obtain a certificate
from the court under whose jurisdic-
ton he contemplates performing the
ceremony
Al busy session of the general
assembly yesterday thirty-six bills
were passed. twenty by the senate
and sixteen by the house Included
among those passed by the house was
Delegate Charles Is. Ayers bin Great
ing a new taxing district at Colmar
,Ha'lor, Ia or, trlnce Georges county. and
'he Dill OF Delegate George Edmonds
cNemptlnE the property of the Mont
Somery County Agricultural and Me
chaniCal Society from county tax
"tlon. These bills will go TO the
senate today for final action
Repeal Attempt Fails.
An attempt to repeal AIarvIand.s
famous "declaration of intent" law
oS which new residents are required
TO appear i'll Il circuit court and de-
clare their intention of becoming
state citlzenS one year before becom-
al Al f,,t. Efs.t,-
and the bill Introduced by Senator
Harry .. Levin OF baltimore city,
calling for such action was virtually
killed by being indefinitely postponed
IN the senate.
This law. which works hardship on
many of the Districts workers who
live across the line in Maryland was
sponsored by former United states
SENATOR Arthur l.. Ciorinan. and passed
Iii the extra session of 1901. Senator
I.eVtn's bill was suddenly reported
10 the senate from the elections COM
mittee without recommendation and
the democratic tloorleader, not hav-
ing expected il. moved that il be
made Il special order for Wednesday,.
y heated debate along party lines
developed. and finally the motion TO
INDEFINITELY po&tpon" was carried by
party vote If l7-7. Senator David
A. Robb of .Allegany county. promi-
nent republican, denounced the law.
Bill Favors Auto Dealers.
Automobile dealers in the coun-
ties of the state will he allowed to
operate new motor vehicles for the
purpose of demonstrating same TO
prospective customers for d Period
of thirty days after receipt from the
manufacturers without obtaining a
certificate of title, according to n bill
introduced in the house by Dele
gate Maurice Lusby OF Calvert county.
The governors bill creating d state
debt of 100000 for construction OF
bridges and the elimination OF dam
geroua grade crossings, which passed
from the senate and recomnittcd to
the house ways and means commit
tee. Delegate Frank :. Given, chair
man OF the committee, stated that
he wished to hold several additional
hearings on the measure.
That continuance OF the present
work of the University Of Maryland
and efficiency of the University Hos
pital, in Baltimore, outweigh in the
the established state tax rate of
- 10 cents was the substance Of ar
EumentS advanced by speakers here
Yesterday at a joint hearing of the
senate finance and house ways and
means committees on the proposed
$2.140, 900 bond issue for the school,
The hearing was attended by .ar2e
delegation from all over the state.
Samuel NJ. Shoemaker, chairman OF
sity, opened the hearing, recitinS
the object of the loan, and declared
that the bill did not represent an
expansion program, but was merely
AN effort to provide for tho schools
now existing.