Note 1221 — Chapter XVI · A CENTURY AND A QUARTER OF MARRIAGE LEGISLATION IN THE UNITED STATES, 1776-1903
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By an act of 1893 the registrars of births, deaths, and marriages are directed, so far as possible, to complete the records from Jan. 1, 1850: Pub. Acts (1893), 324. This act has since been twice supplemented: ibid. (1895), 552; ibid. (1897), 836.