Note 1377 — Chapter XVI · A CENTURY AND A QUARTER OF MARRIAGE LEGISLATION IN THE UNITED STATES, 1776-1903

Arkansas and Indian Territory have a peculiar provision. The person obtaining a license is required to report "the same to the office of the clerk of the county court within 60 days from the date of such license; and if the same be duly executed and officially signed by some person authorized by law to solemnize marriage," the bond of the person so applying for the license shall be null and void, otherwise of full force: Digest (1894), 1129; Ann. Stat. of Ind. Ter. (1899), 510.