Note 34 — Chapter XVII · A CENTURY AND A QUARTER OF DIVORCE LEGISLATION IN THE UNITED STATES, 1776-1903
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Rev. Stat. of the State of N. H. (1843), 293. In these cases the time may be counted before and after the act, or if the three years have already expired, then a divorce may be granted in one month after it goes into force: ibid., 293, 294. The period for joining a religious sect was reduced to six months by the act of Jan. 4, 1849: Laws of N. H. (1848-49), 707; Comp. Stat. (1853), 377.