Chap. 36.—An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved March 17, 1910,
amending and re-enacting section 2219 of the Code of Virginia, in
regard to how a minister is authorized to celebrate the rites of matri-
mony as amended and re-enacted by an act approved neery 15,

; (H. B.

55.)
Approved February 17, 1916.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
an act, entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act approved
March seventeenth, nineteen hundred and ten, amending and re-
enacting section twenty-two hundred and nineteen of the Code
of Virginia, in regard to how a minister is authorized to cele-
brate the rites of matrimony, as amended and re-enacted by an
act approved February fifteenth, nineteen hundred and eight, be
amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Sec. 2219. When a minister of any religious denomina-
tion shall, before the circuit court of any county, or the circuit,
corporation or hustings court of any city, in this State, or be-
fore the judge of either of said courts in vacation, produce proof
of his ordination and of his being in regular communion with
the religious society of which he is a reputed member, such court,
or the judge of either of such courts in vacation, may make an
order authorizing such minister to celebrate the rites of matri-
mony in this State, upon the execution by such minister of a
bond in the penalty of five hundred dollars, with surety, con-
ditioned according to law, before either of such courts, or before
the judge of either of such courts in vacation, or before the clerk
of either of such courts.