Section  1.  Persons  living  without  the  Commonwealth  and  intend-
ing to  be  joined  in  marriage  within  the  Commonwealth,  shall,  before
their  marriage,  cause  notice  of  their  intention  to  be  entered  in  the
office  of  the  clerk  or  registrar  of  the  city  or  town  in  which  they  pro-
pose to  have  the  marriage  solemnized;  and  no  marriage  between  such
parties  shall  be  solemnized  until  they  have  delivered  to  the  justice  of
the  peace,  or  minister  in  whose  presence  the  marriage  is  to  be  con-
tracted, a  certificate  from  such  clerk  or  registrar,  specifying  the  time
when  notice  of  the  intention  of  marriage  was  entered  with  him,
together  with  all  the  facts  in  relation  to  the  marriage  required  by  law
to  be  ascertained  and  recorded,  except  those  respecting  the  person
by  whom  the  marriage  is  to  be  solemnized.
Section  2.  Marriages  may  be  solemnized  by  a  justice  of  the  peace
m  the  county  for  which  he  is  appointed.
Section  3.  A  justice  of  the  peace  or  minister  who  joins  persons
in  marriage  contrary  to  the  provisions  of  this  act  shall  forfeit  not  less^
than  fifty  nor  more  than  one  hundred  dollars.
[Approved  March  11,  18G7.
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APPENDIX.
STATISTICAL  NOSOLOGY

ADOPTED    FOR   REGISTRATION   IN   MASSAOHTTSETTS.
The  following  plan  of  a  Nomenclature  and  Classification  of  Diseases
does  not  essentially  differ  from  that  authorized  by  the  Registrar- General
of  England,  to  be  used  in  the  preparation  of  the  "  Weekly  Eeturn  of
Births  and  Deaths  in  London,"  and  is  also,  with  slight  modifications,  iden-
tical with  that  embodied  in  a  report  drawn  up  by  William  Farr,  Esq.,
M.  D.,  of  London,  for  the  consideration  of  the  International  Statistical
Congress  which  met  at  Paris  in  September,  1855 ;  which  report  was
printed  in  the  Appendix  to  the  Sixteenth  Registration  Report  of  the
Registrar- General,  England.
