Note 1298 — Chapter XVI · A CENTURY AND A QUARTER OF MARRIAGE LEGISLATION IN THE UNITED STATES, 1776-1903
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Colored persons cohabiting as husband and wife before Feb. 28, 1867, were recognized as such in West Virginia: Code (1900), 655; similarly in Tennessee: Code (1884), 609, 610; before March 12, 1872, in South Carolina: Rev. Stat. (1894), I, 753; when so living on Aug. 15, 1870, in Texas: Rev. Civil Laws (1888), I, 879; before Dec. 14, 1866, in Florida: Acts and Resolves (1866), 22, Rev. Stat. (1892), 681; before Dec. 20, 1866, in Arkansas: Digest (1894), 1128.