[1290] Act of March 21, 1889: Arizona Session Laws (1889), 58. This provision seems not to be retained in the Rev. Stat. of 1901.
[1291] In West Virginia the penalty is confinement in jail for not exceeding one year, or a fine of $500, or both: Code (1900), 972; in Virginia it is not exceeding one year in jail and a fine of not more than $500: Code (1887), 899; in Kentucky, not exceeding three years in the penitentiary, and the same penalty for falsely personating father, mother, or guardian: Kentucky Stat. (1894), 766; ibid. (1899), 824.
[1292] Miss. Ann. Code (1892), 679.
[1293] Tenn. Code (1884), 610, 611; ibid. (1896), 104.
[1294] Code of Va. (1887), 555; Code of W. Va. (1900), 655; Kentucky Stat. (1894), 763, 764; Code of Ga. (1882), 393.
[1295] See Daniel v. Sams, 17 Florida Rep., 487, an interesting case involving a slave marriage.
[1296] Littell, Kentucky Stat., II (1810), 571, 572; Cooper, Stat. at Large of S. C., II, 475, 476; Brevard, Alphabetical Digest, II (1814), 41-44; Rev. Stat. (1873), 481.
[1297] Code of Va. (1887), 556.
[1298] Colored persons cohabiting as husband and wife before Feb. 28, 1867, were recognized as such in West Virginia: Code (1900), 655; similarly in Tennessee: Code (1884), 609, 610; before March 12, 1872, in South Carolina: Rev. Stat. (1894), I, 753; when so living on Aug. 15, 1870, in Texas: Rev. Civil Laws (1888), I, 879; before Dec. 14, 1866, in Florida: Acts and Resolves (1866), 22, Rev. Stat. (1892), 681; before Dec. 20, 1866, in Arkansas: Digest (1894), 1128.
[1299] Moore, Code of D. C. (1902), 268.