Chap. 350.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2219 of the Code of Vir-
ginia, in regard to how a minister is authorized to celebrate the rites of
marriage, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved February 15,
1908.

Approved March 17, 1910.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
twenty-two hundred and nineteen of the Code of Virginia, 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:

§2219. When a minister of any religious denomination shall, before
the circuit court of any county or corporation, or before the judge thereof
in vacation, or before the corporation or hustings court of any city in
this State, produce proof of his ordination and of his being in a regular
communion with the religious society of which he is a reputed member,
such court, or the judge of such circuit court in vacation, may make an
order authorizing him to celebrate the rites of marriage, upon the execu-
tion of a bond, with surety, conditioned according to law, before such
court, or the clerk of the court in which the minister resides.