Note 1427 — Chapter XVI · A CENTURY AND A QUARTER OF MARRIAGE LEGISLATION IN THE UNITED STATES, 1776-1903 (continued 2)
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The basis of the Wisconsin law of solemnization may be found in the Stat. (1838-39), 139, 140, giving authority to justices of the peace in their counties, to judges and commissioners of the supreme court, and to ordained ministers; and containing the provision regarding the filing of credentials with the clerk of the district court. See also Rev. Stat. (1849), 391-93, and ibid. (1858), 616-18; including the same provisions regarding celebration as Ann. Stat. (1889), I, 1354-56, except that the present authority for court commissioners in the counties is conferred by act of March 13, 1871: Gen. Laws, 99.
The Minnesota Law in Rev. Stat. of the Ter. (1851), 270-72, is practically the same regarding the celebration as in Gen. Stat. of the State (1866), 406, except the provisions in the latter regarding oath and credentials; and the law of 1866 is retained in Wenzell and Lane, Gen. Stat. (1894), I, 1264-66, except that the provisions for solemnization by the superintendent of the deaf and dumb appear in Laws (1885), chap. 38, p. 47. Licentiates are also required to take out a certificate: Gen. Laws (1901), 285.