United States Statutes at Large/Volume 5/27th Congress/2nd Session/Chapter 106

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United States Statutes at Large, Volume 5
United States Congress
Public Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress, Second Session, Chapter 106
4009761United States Statutes at Large, Volume 5 — Public Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress, Second Session, Chapter 106United States Congress


July 27, 1842.

Chap. CVI.An Act in relation to marriages within the District of Columbia.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,Clergymen authorized to marry, &c. That the ministers of the gospel, or clergy, who at any time may be legally authorized to unite persons in the bands of wedlock, or to join them together as man and wife, either in the county of Washington or the county of Alexandria, shall be, and are hereby, authorized to do so in any place within the District of Columbia.

Approved, July 27, 1842.