Note 685 — Chapter XII · OBLIGATORY CIVIL MARRIAGE IN THE NEW ENGLAND COLONIES (continued 2)
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"An Act for the better preventing of a spurious and mixt issue" (Dec. 5, 1705): Acts and Resolves, I, 578, 579; Charters and Gen. Laws, Appendix, 748: "Be it enacted ... that none of her majesty's English or Scottish Subjects, nor of any other Christian nation within this province, shall contract matrimony with any Negro or Molatto: nor shall any ... presume to join any such in Marriage, on pain of forfeiting ... fifty pounds."