Note 160 — Chapter XVII · A CENTURY AND A QUARTER OF DIVORCE LEGISLATION IN THE UNITED STATES, 1776-1903
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Fifteen of these divorces were granted by the one act of Feb. 7, 1879: Acts and Resolutions (1879), 5-8; for the others see ibid., 46, 112; and compare the act of Congress of July 30, 1886: Statutes at Large, XXIV, 170. In the same year, 1879, twenty-eight divorces were granted by the courts of Arizona, and five in the year before: Wright, Report, 151.