The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1938-08-11
HARRY w. NICE
By the Governor:
E. RAY JONES
Secretary of State.
THE
GREAT SEAL
OF
MARYLAND
1888
PROCLAMATION OF THE COVER.
NOR OF MARYLAND
STATEWIDE REFERENDUMS

WHEREAS, at the January 1887 session of
the General Assembly of Maryland, an Act
was passed known Chapter 81, fixing the
time within which marriage license may be
issued; and
WHEREAS, at the January 1897 session of
the General Assembly of Maryland, an Act
was passed known as Chapter 306, for the pur-
pose of licensing dentists which licenses shall
be issued to individual dentists; providing for
State Board of Dental Examiners, its or
ganizatiOn and duties, providing for the giving
of examinations and licenses by said Board
providing for the issuance of new licenses in
place of those that lost destroyed; pro-
viding for fees upon taking of examinations
providing for the revocation and suspension of
licenses; prohibiting advertising by dentists
providing appeals from the ruling of the
Board; defining dentistry; creating certain eX-
ceptons to the Act; providing for penalties,
and providing other matters incidental to the
general purpose of the Act; in words and fig
ures follows:
CHAPTER 81
AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amend
ments Section of Article 81 of the Ammo
tated Code of Maryland 1924 Edition. title
Marriages, to fix the time within which
marriage license may be issued.
Section l. Be it enacted by the General
Assembly of Maryland, That Section of Ar
ticle 81 of the Annotated Code of Maryland
1924 Edition., title Marriages, be and it is
hereby repealed and re-enacted with amend
ments to read as follows:
5. Before the Clerk of any of the Courts
AFORESAID SHdlI issue any Incense ne small eN-
anime one of the contracting parties to the
marriage, under oath, who shall appear per-
sonally before the Clerk and make application
for the same, and the Clerk shall ascertain
first, the full name of the parties second,
their place of residence; third. their age
fourth, their color; fifth, whether married or
single; sixth, whether related or not, if so, in
which degree of relationship; seventh, if ever
divorced which facts upon the payment of
dollar ($l00) as an application fee shall
be set out in printed form to be signed by the
person making the application, and no such
license TO marry shall be delivered by the
Clerk until after the expiration of Forty-eight
(4S) hours from the time application is made
therefor; provided, however, that any judge of
the Circuit Court of the county in which the
application is made or, if made in Baltimore
City, any judge of the Court Of Common Pleas,
for good and sufficient cause shown, may by
an order in writing signed by him, authorize
the Clerk to deliver such license at any time
after the application therefor. 1t shall be I'M
lawful for the clerks of any of the courts afore-
said to make public the fact of an application
for marriage license until such license shall
have been issued.
Sec 2. And be it further enacted, That
this Act shall take effect June /, 1887
Approved: March 90 1887.
CHAPTER 3O6
AN ACT 10 repeal Sections l to 49, inclusive
of Article 80 of the Code of Public General
Laws of Maryland, 1885 Supplement. Flack's
Edition. title Dentistry, and to re-enaet in
place and in lieu thereof twenty-three new
sections to be known as Sections !, 2, 3, 4,
s. 6. z. 8, 3, 10, 10a, IL. ~, 10, IA, Is,
16, II, 10, 10, 20, Fl, and ~, for the purpose