Note 1509 — Chapter XVI · A CENTURY AND A QUARTER OF MARRIAGE LEGISLATION IN THE UNITED STATES, 1776-1903 (continued 2)

Return is made to the designated officer of the county (or town) where the license was issued, in Idaho (1899), Kansas, Michigan, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada (1899), and Utah; but where the marriage was solemnized, in California, Delaware, Illinois, Indiana, Minnesota, North Dakota, Washington, Wisconsin, Wyoming, and Iowa. The Pennsylvania act of 1893 requires the return to be made to the clerk of the orphans' court in the county where the marriage was solemnized; and this, doubtless, supersedes the law of 1885, which designates for this purpose the county from which license was issued, and which also appears in Pepper and Lewis, Digest (1896), II, 2880, 2881, 2883. By the Ohio act of April 25, 1898, return is made to the probate judge of the county where the license was issued, or where the congregation in which publication of banns was made is located, or where the marriage was celebrated: Laws (1898), 309-11. Of course, the county of issue of license and the county of celebration are usually the same. In Oregon return is made both to the county clerk issuing the license and to the clerk of the county of the marriage: General Laws (1903), 99, 100.