Note 200 — Chapter XVII · A CENTURY AND A QUARTER OF DIVORCE LEGISLATION IN THE UNITED STATES, 1776-1903

The first three causes appear in Public Laws (1871-72), 339; the fourth is added by ibid. (1879), chap. 132, p. 240; the fifth by ibid. (1887), chap. 100, p. 190; the sixth by ibid. (1889), chap. 442, pp. 422, 423; the seventh by ibid. (1903), 846, amending an act in ibid. (1899), 337, which made the term of desertion one year; and the eighth by ibid. (1899), 124, 125. The seventh cause applies only to cases occurring before Jan. 1, 1903. The offender divorced for the seventh cause may not rewed in five years; and he must have been a resident of the state for the same period.