Note 1214 — Chapter XVI · A CENTURY AND A QUARTER OF MARRIAGE LEGISLATION IN THE UNITED STATES, 1776-1903
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Acts and Resolves of Mass. (1897), 420, 421. For the earlier law as to the clerk's record see Pub. Stat. (1882), 256. In 1786 the town clerk is to report to the clerk of the general sessions of the peace in each county, who is to keep a record: Laws of the Com., 1780-1816, I, 323.