Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 March 1885 — Anti-Matrimonial Law. [ARTICLE]

Anti-Matrimonial Law.

Bavaria has enacted a law forbidding the marriage of couples who do not possess sufficient means to maintain themselves, or who, during the previous three years, have received help frbrn the public funds, or who have not paid their quota of taxes, or regarding whom there is reason to suspect that trouble will result to the household from the want of sobriety, economy, or love of work.