Chap. 39.—An ACT to’amend and re-enact section 2219 of the Code of Virginia
in regard to how a minister is authorized to celebrate the rites of marriage.

Approved February 15, 1908.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
two thousand two hundred and nineteen of the Code of Virginia be
amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:
§2219. When a minister of any religious denomination shall, before
the circuit court of any county or corporation in this State, or before
the judge thereof in vacation, produce proof of his ordination and of
his being in regular communion with the religious society of which he
is reputed a member, such court or judge thereof in vacation may make
an order authorizing him to celebrate the rites of marriage upon the
execution of a bond with surety conditioned according to law before
the clerk of the court in which the minister resides.