JOHN LEE CARROLL, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR

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Library Company of the Baltimore Bar, such copies

of the Reports, Laws, Journals and Documents of

the State of Maryland, of which he may have dupli-

cates, as can be spared from the State Library, not

exceeding in each case two copies of such volumes.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall take

In force.

effect from the date of its passage.

Approved April 8, 1876.

CHAPTER 290.

AN ACT to impower Joshua Wisner, " Senior,"

and Mary Ann Simpers, his step-daughter, both

of Carroll county, Maryland, to marry each the

other, and to legitimate their children.

WHEREAS. Joshua Wisner, " Senior," and Mary

Ann Simpers, his step-daughter, both of Carroll

Preamble.

county, Maryland, have been living together for a

long number of years; and,

WHEREAS, the said Joshua Wisner, " Senior," and

Mary Ann Simpers, desire to contract marriage, and

Preamble.

to legitimate their children; and,

WHEREAS, the only relief they can receive to at-

tain the desired end, is by an act of the General

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Assembly; therefore,

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of

Maryland, That Joshua Wisner, " Senior," and Mary

Authorized

Ann Simpers, his step-daughter, both of Carroll

and empow-
ered.

county, Maryland, are hereby authorized and em-

powered to contract marriage together, and marry

each the other, on procuring such marriage license

as is now required by law of other persons; and any

person having authority by law to celebrate the

rites of marriage, is hereby empowered to celebrate

the rites of marriage between the said Joshua