CHAP. 279.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1, chapter 104,
of the Code of 1873, as amended by an act approved April 29, 1874,
in relation to issuing marriage licenses.

Approved March 9, 1880.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That section one
of chapter one hundred and four of the Code of Virginia, edi-
tion of eighteen hundred and seventy-three, as amended and
re-enacted by an act approved April twenty-ninth, eighteen
hundred and seventy-four, in relation to the issuing of mar-
riage licenses, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as
follows :

§ 1. Every license for a marriage shall be issued by the clerk
of the court of the county or corporation in which the female
to be married usually resides; or, if the office of the clerk be
vacant, by the judge of the county court of such county, or
the mayor of such corporation, who shall make return thereof
to the clerk as soon as there may be one: provided, however,
that when the residence of a female to be married is within the
limits of a city or town having a corporation, or hustings court,
the license for such marriage shall be issued by the clerk of
such court: and provided further, that all marriages of females
residing within the jurisdiction of a corporation or hustings
court which have been heretofore or may be before this act
takes effect solemnized by virtue of a license issued by the
clerk of the court of the county wherein a city or town was or
is situated, shall be as valid as if such license was issued by
the clerk of such corporation or hustings court.

2. This act shall be in force from its passage.