Note 796 — Chapter XIII · ECCLESIASTICAL RITES AND THE RISE OF CIVIL MARRIAGE IN THE SOUTHERN COLONIES
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With an exception relating to military power: Poore, Charters, I, 373, 374. Georgia was made a royal province in 1751; but the policy of toleration was maintained: Holmes, Annals, II, 45; Story, Commentaries, I, 102. In early days the province suffered the usual evils from scarcity of women: Coll. Georgia Hist. Soc., II, 105; III, 32, 144.