Chap. 28.—An ACT to amend and re-enact an act of the general assembly of
Virginia, approved May 20, 1903, entitled an act to amend and re-enact
an act of the gencral assembly of Virginia, approved February 3, 1900,
entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 2229 of the Code of Virginia,
relating to certificates to be issued by the clerk with marriage licenses,
the return to be made. by persons celebrating the marriage.

Approved February 16, 1910.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That an act of
the general assembly of Virginia, approved May twentieth, nineteen hun-
dred and three, entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act of the gen-
eral assembly of Virginia, approved February third, nineteen hundred,
entitled an act to amend and re-enact section twenty-two hnudred and
twenty-nine of the Code of Virginia, relating to certificates to be issued
by the clerk with marriage licenses, the return to be made by persons
celebrating the marriage, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as
follows:
§2229. The certificate to be issued by the clerk with license; the re-
turn to be made by persons celebrating the marriage; the clerk to furnish
to the attorney for the Commonwealth list of those failing to make re-
turn, the record of certificate of marriage to be prima facie evidence.

The clerk issuing any marriage license shall at the time ascertain
from the party obtaining such license, as near as may be, the date and
place of the proposed marriage, the full names of both parties, their
ages and condition before marriage (whether single, widowed or di-
vorced), their race, whether white or colored, the places of their birth
and residence, the names of their parents and the occupation of the hus-
band, and make a certificate thereof and deliver it, together with the
license, to the person entitled thereto.

It shall be the duty of every minister or other persons ‘celebrating
such marriage, within thirty days after the same has been celebrated, to
return such license and certificate of the clerk, together with his own
certificate of the time and place at which the said marriage was cele-
brated, to the clerk who issued the said license. Any minister or other
person celebrating such marriage violating the provisions of this section
shall be liable to a fine of not less than ten dollars nor more than twenty
dollars for each offense.

It shall be the duty of the clerk issuing marriage license of any
county or city on the first day of February of each year to furnish to the
Commonwealth attorney of his county or city a list of all marriage
licenses issued for the year just preceding the first day of January last
past that has not been returned by the minister or other person cele-
brating the marriage, and for failure to perform the duty required by
pa section the clerk shall be liable on conviction to a fine of twenty dol-
ars.

It shall be the duty of the Commonwealth’s attorney for cach county
and city, upon the receipt of such list from the clerk, to have such per-
son or persons as he may think proper summoned before the next regular
grand jury of his county or city to ascertain the name of the minister or
other person celebrating such marriage and failing to return such license
and certificate to the clerk, together with the certificate of such minister
or other person celebrating such marriage.

When the said certificate of such minister or other person celebrating
such marriage is returned to the clerk, and recorded as provided in sec-
tion twenty-two hundred and thirty, then the record thereof shall be
prima facie evidence in all courts of this Commonwealth of the facts
stated therein.