[1223] Act of Nov. 30, 1898: Acts and Resolves of Vt. (1898), 41-46, repealing the act of 1896 and all other acts in conflict. Cf. also Vermont Stat. (1894), 538-40.
[1224] In this section the laws of marriage are traced for the following twenty-one districts and commonwealths: the states of Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, and West Virginia; Indian Territory, the territories of Arizona, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Porto Rico, and the District of Columbia.
[1225] See chap. xiii.
[1226] See chap, xiii, sec. i.
[1227] Hening, Statutes, X, 361-63; cf. Jefferson, Notes on the State of Va. (Brooklyn, 1794), 174.
[1228] Hening, op. cit., X, 363.
[1229] The testimonial runs as follows: "This shall certify to all whom it may concern, that at a court held for ——, on the —— day of ——, one thousand seven hundred and ——, A. B. produced credentials of his ordination, and also of his being in regular communion with the —— church, took the oath of allegiance to the commonwealth, and entered into bond, as required ... , and that he is hereby authorized to celebrate the rites of matrimony," etc.—Hening, op. cit., XI, 503 (act of Oct., 1784).
[1230] Ibid., 504.
[1231] Act of Dec. 22, 1792: Acts of the Gen. Assembly (1794), 202-6.
[1232] Hening, op. cit., XI, 281, 282. By the act of 1792, also, marriages celebrated by magistrates before 1785 were legalized: Acts of the Gen. Assem., 203.