[81] Rev. Stat. (1884), 520-22.
[82] Rev. Stat. of the State of Maine (1884), 522. This provision originated in 1874: Acts and Resolves (1874), chap. 184, sec. 3, p. 130.
[83] Slade, State Papers, 364.
[84] By an act of 1797, both parties may at once remarry: Laws of the State of Vt. (1798), 364.
[85] Act of Nov. 27, 1878: Acts and Resolves (1878), 32, 33; also in Stat. of Vt. (1894), 511, 512. The penalty for violation of this provision is imprisonment from one to five years.
[86] Laws of N. H. (1840), 488, 489. See subsection a) above.
[87] Pub. Stat. of N. H. (1900), 591.
[88] Pub. Laws of R. I. (1902), 41.
[89] Pub. Stat. of the Com. of Mass. (1882), 813, 817; Rev. Laws (1902), II, 1353, 1357. The main features of the present law originated as early as 1835; Rev. Stat. (1836), 480, 484. By the act of May 2, 1877, the prior time of residence had been fixed at three years in all cases where the parties were inhabitants of the state at the time of the marriage: Supp. to Gen. Stat., 1873-77, II, 516.
[90] Act of May 8, 1884: Acts and Resolves, 181; Supp. to Pub. Stat., chap. 219, p. 185; Rev. Laws (1902), II, 1353.