Note 1337 — Chapter XVI · A CENTURY AND A QUARTER OF MARRIAGE LEGISLATION IN THE UNITED STATES, 1776-1903

See the lists in Wright, Report, 35-45. On these marriages I have not found changes since 1887, the date of that compilation.

In Virginia bigamy was formerly punished by death: see the act of 1792, in Acts of Gen. Assem. (1794), 205; now the penalty is three to five years' imprisonment: Code (1887), 680; in West Virginia it is one to five years in the penitentiary: Code (1891), 918; in Florida, not exceeding five years in state's prison, or not exceeding one year in the county jail, or a fine of not more than $500: Rev. Stat. (1892), 820; in Missouri, not exceeding five years in the penitentiary, or less than six months in the county jail, or not less than $500, or by both a fine of not more than $100 and imprisonment in the county jail for not less than three months: Rev. Stat. (1899), I, 608, 609. Bigamy is prohibited in Rev. Civil Stat. of Tex. (1888), I, 877; White, Penal Code (1901), 188; Digest of Ark. (1894), 1126.