Note 1256 — Chapter XVI · A CENTURY AND A QUARTER OF MARRIAGE LEGISLATION IN THE UNITED STATES, 1776-1903

Editorial note, Brevard, Alphabetical Digest (1814), II, 438. Cf. on this point the remarks of Editor Desaussure, in connection with the case of Vaigneur et al., v. Kirk (1808), in 2 S. C. Equity Reports, 644-46.

"In South Carolina the only reference to the parties by whom marriages may be solemnized is found in section 2034, General Statutes, 1882, which provides a penalty for the solemnization of marriage between white and colored persons by 'any clergyman, minister of the gospel, magistrate, or other person authorized by law to perform the marriage ceremony.'"—Wright, Report, 50, 51.