An Act to amend and reenact § 46.1-299, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to devices signalling intention to turn or stop and rules therefor.
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Chap. 849.—An ACT to amend and re-enact an act to amend and re-enact sec-
tion 2218 of the code of Virginia,in relation to consent of parent or guardian
to marriage of party under twenty-one years of age, approved February 28,
189
Approved March 8, 1894.
1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
twenty-two hundred and eighteen of chapter one hundred of the
code of eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, in relation to congent of
parent or guardian to marriage of a party under twenty-one years of
age, as amended by an act entitled an act to amend said section, ap-
proved February twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and ninety, be
amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:
§ 2218. If any person intending to marry be under twenty-one
years of age, and has not been previously married, the consent of
the father or guardian, or, if there be none, of the mother of such
person, shall be given either personally to the clerk, judge or mayor,
or in writing subscribed by a witness, who shall make oath before
the clerk, judge or mayor that said writing was signed or acknow-
ledged in his presence by such father, guardian or mother, as the
case may be, or in writing acknowledged before a notary public or
any person authorized to take acknowledgments to deeds under the
laws of this state, or any postmaster in the county of such father,
guardian or mother’s residence, which acknowledgment shall be
properly certified by such officer. If there be no father, guardian or
mother, or if such person be abandoned by his or her parents, the
judge of the county or hustings court of the county or city wherein
the female resides, may either in term or vacation, on the applica-
tion of the person intending to marry, properly certified, authorize a
marriage license to be issued as required.
2. This act shall be in force from its passage.