[354] Laws of Minn. (1849), 89.
[355] Ibid.
[356] For examples see Laws (1851), 39, 40 (four cases); and ibid. (1852), 60, 61 (two cases). Seven of the acts cited are also given or restated in Collected Stat. of the Ter. of Minn. and Decis. of Supreme Court (1853).
[357] Here is an example: "The bonds of matrimony between Obediah J. Niles and Hannah M. Niles shall be and the same are hereby dissolved."—Laws and Resolutions, I, 373 (act of Feb., 1857). For other cases see ibid., 569, 570 (two cases, 1858), 653-55, 656 (three cases, 1860), 766, 767 (two cases, 1861). On Jan. 23, 1856, six petitions in one bill were referred to the judge of the district court for the first judicial district with power to dissolve marriage: ibid., 300.
[358] Private Laws of Kan. (1860), 232-54. For other cases see ibid. (1858), 10-12 (three cases); and ibid. (1859), 41-45 (eight cases).
[359] Cf. Laws of Ia. (1840), 12; ibid. (1840-41), 7, 12; ibid. (1841-42), 3, 11, 13, 28, 30, 31, 66, 73, 94, 95 (eleven cases); ibid. (1842-43), 82-84 (nineteen cases); ibid. (1845-46), 42, 48, 51, 52, 61, 72, 79 (eleven cases).
[360] There are two cases in Laws and Res. (1871), 86, 91; others in Gen. Laws (1879), 54, 59-61; five in ibid. (1881), 439-41; and four in ibid. (1883), 164, 165.
[361] The Private and Spec. Laws of Mont. (1864-65), 554, 610, 685, 695, 699, 700, show nine cases of legislative divorce.
[362] For examples see Spec. Laws (1857), 12; ibid. (1857-58), 107, 108, 110, 111, 112 (twelve cases); ibid. (1858-59), 92-107 (thirty-one cases).
[363] See Acts (1858), 53, 54; ibid. (1859), 62; ibid. (1860: private laws), 473-79; Session Laws (1861: local laws), 71, 73, 74, 81, 83, 92, 93, 101-3, 110, 131, 132; ibid. (1862), Index; ibid. (1863), 138-44.