[1420] Act of May 30: Laws (1881), 112; retained in Hurd, Rev. Stat. (1898), 1068; cf. Rev. Stat. (1845), 343.
[1421] Act of Aug. 2, 1805: Laws of the Ter. of Mich. (1871-84), I, 30 (from the "Woodward Code"): repeated in the "Cass Code" (1816): ibid., I, 202, 203.
[1422] Act of 1820: Laws of the Ter., I, 646, 647.
[1423] Act of April 12, 1827: Laws of the Ter., II, 412-14.
[1424] Act of May 31, 1832: Laws of the Ter., III, 914, 915.
[1425] Act of July 31: Laws (1873), 20; also in Howell, Gen. Stat. (1882), II, 1619, 1620. It is expressly provided that marriage may be solemnized on Sunday: ibid., I, sec. 2015; and in certain extreme cases the county judge of probate may perform the ceremony: see the acts of 1897 and 1899, referred to in subsec. c) below.
[1426] But if the marriage among Quakers "does not take place in such meeting, such certificate shall be signed by the parties, and at least six witnesses present, and filed for record" with the county clerk: Gen. Stat. of Minn. (1894), I, 1266; the same in ibid. (1866), 408; and nearly the same in ibid. (1851), 271, 272.
[1427] The basis of the Wisconsin law of solemnization may be found in the Stat. (1838-39), 139, 140, giving authority to justices of the peace in their counties, to judges and commissioners of the supreme court, and to ordained ministers; and containing the provision regarding the filing of credentials with the clerk of the district court. See also Rev. Stat. (1849), 391-93, and ibid. (1858), 616-18; including the same provisions regarding celebration as Ann. Stat. (1889), I, 1354-56, except that the present authority for court commissioners in the counties is conferred by act of March 13, 1871: Gen. Laws, 99.
The Minnesota Law in Rev. Stat. of the Ter. (1851), 270-72, is practically the same regarding the celebration as in Gen. Stat. of the State (1866), 406, except the provisions in the latter regarding oath and credentials; and the law of 1866 is retained in Wenzell and Lane, Gen. Stat. (1894), I, 1264-66, except that the provisions for solemnization by the superintendent of the deaf and dumb appear in Laws (1885), chap. 38, p. 47. Licentiates are also required to take out a certificate: Gen. Laws (1901), 285.
[1428] The justice of the peace is not expressly given authority by the Oregon law; but in effect he is authorized by the general clause allowing "any judicial officer" to act within his proper jurisdiction: Codes and Stat. (1902), II, 1682.