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*'''1855''' "An Act To repeal the Registration Act," Laws of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, (1855). | *'''1855''' "An Act To repeal the Registration Act," Laws of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, (1855). | ||
*'''1885''' "An Act Relating to marriage licenses, providing for officers herein indicated to issue licenses for parties to marry," Laws of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, (1885). | *'''1885''' "An Act Relating to marriage licenses, providing for officers herein indicated to issue licenses for parties to marry," Laws of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, (1885). | ||
:*The new law made it illegal for any "minister of the gospel, justice of the peace, or other officers, or persons authorized by law to solemnize marriages" to marry any couple who did not first obtain a marriage license. The law went into effect on October 1, 1885 | |||
*'''1909''' "An Act to amend the first section of an act entitled ‘An Act relating to marriage licenses," Laws of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, (1909). | *'''1909''' "An Act to amend the first section of an act entitled ‘An Act relating to marriage licenses," Laws of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, (1909). | ||
*'''1893''' "An Act to Amend an act, entitled ‘An Act relating to marriage licenses," Laws of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, (1893). | *'''1893''' "An Act to Amend an act, entitled ‘An Act relating to marriage licenses," Laws of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, (1893). | ||