[1410] Rev. Stat. of Del. (1874), 473; also in Rev. Stat. (of 1852, as amended to 1893), 594. By the act of Feb. 25: Laws of Del. (1875), 260, the mayor of Newcastle was granted the same power, but it seems not to be continued in the present law.
[1411] On the significance of the settlement of Marietta, and the influence of the middle states and provinces, see Howard, Local Const. Hist., I, 408, 411, 387, passim.
[1412] Act of 1788: Chase, Stat. of Ohio and the Northwestern Ter., I, 101, 102.
[1413] Act of Aug. 1, 1792: Chase, op. cit., I, 126.
[1414] After 1810, at any rate, it is the county court of common pleas: Chase, op. cit., I, 672 (1810); II, 1211 (1822), 1407 (1824); Swan, Stat. of Ohio (1853), 569-71.
[1415] Act of April 4, 1803, repealing the two preceding laws: Chase, op. cit., I, 354, 355.
[1416] Ann. Rev. Stat. of Ohio (1897), II, 3016.
[1417] The act of June 11, 1822: Chase, op. cit., II, 1211, requires the minister to produce his license to the clerk of the county court of common pleas, who shall "enter the name of such minister upon record as a minister of the gospel duly authorized to solemnize marriage within the state, and shall note the county from which said license" was issued. At present the license must be presented to the county court of probate.
[1418] Ann. Stat. of Ohio (1897), II, 3017; cf. Wright, Report, 56, 57.
[1419] Laws of the State of Ind. (1897), 129 (act of March 4, 1897).