Chap. 291.—An ACT to amend and re-enact an act of the general assembly of Vir-
ginia, 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 mar-
riage.”

Approved May 20, 1903.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That an act of
the general assembly of Virginia approved February the third, nineteen
hundred, entitled “an act to amend and re-enact section twenty-two hun-
dred 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 snd re-enacted so as to
read as follows:

§ 2229. The certificate to be issued by clerk with license; the return
to be made by person celebrating the marriage.

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 divorced),
the places of their birth and residence, the names of their parents and the
occupation of the husband, 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 two monthe after the same has been celebrated, to re-
turn such license and certificate of the clerk, together with his own certifi-
cate of the time and place at which the said marriage was celebrated, to
the clerk who issued the said license. Any minister violating the pro-
visions of this section shall be liable to a fine of not less than five dollars
nor more than ten dollars for each offense.

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