Note 1358 — Chapter XVI · A CENTURY AND A QUARTER OF MARRIAGE LEGISLATION IN THE UNITED STATES, 1776-1903
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Iredell-Martin, Public Acts, 1715-1803 (1804), act of 1778, chap. 7, I, 253. Compare Laws of N. C. (1821), I, 129; Rev. Stat. (1837), I, 386; and Laws (1871-72), 328-43. The register of deeds takes the place of the clerk of the county court as issuer of license in 1872. By the act of 1778 the bond necessary for license had been fixed at 500 pounds "lawful money."