[141] This inference is justified by the words of the act as quoted, and from the clause declaring "that all applications for other causes than those specified"—in the act of 1814—"shall be subject to the rules and regulations provided in said act for the causes therein mentioned."—Acts (1827-28), 19, 20. The law of 1814, as to causes, appears unaltered in Laws of the State (1821), II, 1292-95.
[142] Poore, Charters, II, 1416 (1835), 1439 (1876).
[143] By the ninth amendment to the constitution of 1820, ratified at the session of 1852-53: Rev. Stat. (1856), I, 96; Poore, Charters, II, 1122. The prohibition is retained in the constitution of 1875, Art. IV, sec. 53: Poore, Charters, II, 1175.
[144] Act of Jan. 31, 1833: Laws of a Public and General Nature (1842), II, 361.
[145] Wright, Report, 388, 389, 155.
[146] Act of March 10, 1803: Stat. of Miss. Ter. (1816), 252-54.
[147] Constitution of 1817, Art. VI, sec. 17: Poore, Charters, II, 1064; carried out by act of June 15, 1822: Code of Miss. (1848), 496.
[148] Laws (1833), 235 ff.; Const. of 1832, Art. VII, sec. 15: Poore, Charters, II, 1077. The omission of the clause expressly requiring legislative sanction in the constitution of 1832 seems clearly to be intended to abolish legislative divorce. Yet the act of 1840 makes the decrees of the courts "final and conclusive, as fully as though the same had been confirmed by the legislature;" from which language one would naturally infer that the legislature had continued to ratify divorces after the constitution went into effect: Laws (1840), 51.
Legislative divorce is prohibited by the constitution of 1868, Art. IV, sec. 22: Poore, Charters, II, 1084; and by Art. IV, secs. 87 and 90 of the constitution of 1890: New York Convention Manual, Part II, Vol. I, 1067 (1894).
[149] The act also appears in Digest of Laws of Ala. (1823), 252.