Note 1391 — Chapter XVI · A CENTURY AND A QUARTER OF MARRIAGE LEGISLATION IN THE UNITED STATES, 1776-1903
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In West Virginia "the registration of births, marriages, and deaths of white and colored shall be kept separate and distinct."—Code (1900), 659. Cf. Ky. Gen. Stat. (1887), 204; Digest of Ark. (1894), 320, 321; Code of Va. (1887), 130, 558.
For the entire discussion of matrimonial administration in these states, as above given in subsec. c), compare Code of Ala. (1897), I, 827 ff.; Rev. Stat. of Ariz. (1887), 371, 372; Digest of Ark. (1894), 1126 ff.; Rev. Stat. of Fla. (1892), 679 ff.; Code of Ga. (1896), II, 221 ff.; Kentucky Stat. (1894), 765, 766; Rev. Civil Code of La. (1888), 60 ff.; Code of Md. (1888), I, 975 ff.; Ann. Code of Miss. (1892), 677, 678; Rev. Stat. of Mo. (1899), I, 1035 ff.; Comp. Laws of N. M. (1897), 403 ff.; Code of N. C. (1883), I, 690-92; Code of Tenn. (1884), 609-11; Gen. Laws of Tex. (1891), 96; Rev. Civil Stat. of Tex. (1888), I, 877, 878; Code of Va. (1887), 555-60; Acts (1900), 283, 284; Code of W. Va. (1900), 654 ff., 934; also Acts of Leg. (1887), chap. 64; Ann. Stat. of Ind. Ter. (1899), 507 ff.; Session Laws of Oklahoma (1897), 208 ff.; Comp. Stat. of D. C. (1894), 270-75.