Chap. 257.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2229 of the code of Vir-
ginia relating to certificates to be issued by the clerk with marriage license,
the return to be made by person celebrating the marriage.

Approved February 8, 1900.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
twenty-two hundred and twenty-nine, code of Virginia, be amended and
re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§ 2229. The certificate to be issued by clerk with the license, the
return to be made by person celebrating the marriage.—The clerk issu-
ing 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 pro-

sed marriage, the full names of both parties, their ages and condition
Pefore marriage (whether single or widowed, or divorced), the places of
their birth and residence, the names of their parents and the occupa-
tion of the husband, and make a certificate thereof, and deliver it. to-
gether with the license, to the person entitled thereto. It shall be the
duty of every minister or other person celebrating such marriage, within
two months 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 celebrated, to the clerk
who issued the license.

2. This act shall be in force on and after July first, nineteen hundred.