Chap. 81.—An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 5078 of the Code of Virginia,
‘relating to marriage licenses to certain persons under twenty-one years of age.

[H B 106]
Approved March 8, 1938

1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, That section
aity hundred and seventy-eight of the Code of Virginia, be amended
and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Section 5078. When consent of parent or guardian necessary; how
given.—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
e given either personally to the clerk or judge, or in writing sub-
cribed by a witness, who shall make oath before the clerk or judge
that said writing was signed or acknowledged in his presence by such
father, guardian, or mother, as the case may be, or the writing shall
be acknowledged before a notary public or some person authorized to
take acknowledgements to deeds under the laws of this State, 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 circuit court of the county,
or of the corporation court of the city wherein the female resides,
either in term or vacation, or the clerk or deputy clerk of such court,
may, on the application of the person intending to marry, properly
certified, authorize a marriage license to be issued, or issue the same,
as the case may be.