Note 874 — Chapter XIV · OPTIONAL CIVIL OR ECCLESIASTICAL MARRIAGE IN THE MIDDLE COLONIES

American witnesses for the claimant were E. J. Phelps, the United States minister, S. P. Nash, and C. Cary, of the American bar. Those for the counter-claimant were R. L. Fowler, of the American bar, and G. F. Edmunds, chairman of the Committee on Judiciary of the United States Senate: Law Reports, X, 728 n. 1. See also Webster, Opinion on the Law of Marriage in the Col. of N. Y. (New York, May 26, 1885); Seward, Answer to Interrogations of Brodie and Sons (New York, June, 1885); and Fowler, Letter and Opinion (New York, May 11, 1885). Copies of these three opinions are in the State Library, Albany. Written opinions were also submitted by James C. Carter and William Evarts, of New York.