Note 468 — Chapter XVII · A CENTURY AND A QUARTER OF DIVORCE LEGISLATION IN THE UNITED STATES, 1776-1903 (continued 3)

Act of April 3, 1893: Laws of Col., 236, 237; also in Mills, Ann. Stat. (1897), III, 434. The sixth cause was added in 1881. At the same time the term of habitual drunkenness was reduced to one year, instead of two years, as by the law of 1861; while desertion and departure from the territory "without intention of returning," until then a ground for divorce when committed by the husband, was made a ground when committed by either party: Laws of Col. (1881), 112; also in Gen. Stat. (1883), 397 ff. The first cause, in its present form, arose in Laws of Col. (1885), 189, and it differs somewhat from the original provision in ibid. (1861-62), 360.