[21] Supp. to Gen. Stat. of the Com. of Mass., 1860-72, I, 871.
[22] Act of June 11, 1873: Acts and Resolves (1873), 908.
[23] Pub. Stat. of the Com. of Mass. (Boston, 1882), 813.
[24] Act of June 7, 1889: Acts and Resolves (1889), 1172.
[25] Rev. Laws (1902), II, 1352, 1353. Divorce for joining a religious sect, under the act of 1850, seems to have been dropped out in the revision. It is still in Pub. Stat. (1882), 813.
[26] See the Index to the MSS. Laws of New Hampshire Recorded in the Office of the Secretary of State, 1679-1883 (1886), 149, 150, where a list is given showing that legislative decrees were granted in 1766, 1771, 1773, 1778, 1779, 1780, 1781, 1782, and 1783.
[27] See the provision in Poore, Charters, II, 1290.
[28] It is by that constitution left in the hands of the superior court until the legislature shall make provision: Poore, Charters, II, 1305; also in Const. and Laws of the State of N. H. (1805), 18.
[29] See Laws of N. H. (1855), 1542; also Gen. Stat. (1867), 386; Gen. Laws (1878), 432, 433; Pub. Stat. (1891), 573.
[30] Laws of the State of N. H. (1797), 295.