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Sequential Number: 222
Law Number: (No. 222.)
Full Title: An Act to legalize marriages by colored ordained
ministers of the gospel, and also to authorize such colored ordained
minister, or ministers of African descent, to solemnize future marriages
between freedmen and freedwomen of African descent only.
1. Section I. Be it enacted, etc., That all marriages heretofore
celebrated by ordained colored ministers of the gospel, or ministers of
African descent, between freedmen and freedwomen and persons of African
descent, shall, and the same are hereby declared to be legal and valid to
all intents and purposes.
[Side note: Marriage celebrated by ordained colored ministers
valid.]
2. Sec. II. That it shall and is hereby made lawful for ordained
colored ministers of the gospel, or ministers of the gospel, of African
descent, to celebrate marriages between freedmen and freedwomen, or
persons of African descent only, under the same terms and regulations as
are now required by the laws of this State for marriages between free
white citizens of this State.
[Side note: Marriages which ordained colored ministers can
celebrate.]
