Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 118, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 May 1912 — How a Couple Was Married by Proxy [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

How a Couple Was Married by Proxy

BOSTON. —Mozes Pimentel, cigarmaker of Boston, and Marie Jo* hanna Liesmann of Amsterdam, Hoi* land, have been married without either leaving home. The queen of Holland consented to their marriage by proxy. Though marriage by proxy is not allowed In the United States, so many legal steps have been taken to bring about this union that there seems no doubt the immigration people will recognize it when the bride arrives in America. . 4r When Mozep Pimentel strolled into the office of Charles C. Dasey, acting Counsul of Holland, and said he frisked to be married by proxy, Mr. Dasey did not believe It could he done. However, on the insistence of the Hoi*

lander he sent a statement of the situation to the consul general at New York. . The ceremony of acquiring a bride without being present at the ceremony as gone through with Pimentel is as follows: First, a special petition to the queen explaining the necessity tor the proxy marriage. This has been done and consent obtained. Next, a power of attorney giving Hartog Pimentel, his brother, the right to act for him was prepared. Then a declaration to wed was sworn to by Pimentel before a notary. 'According to the Dutch custom, the notary’s seal was then certified to by the secretary of the state of Massachusetts, and Consul Dasey certified to the authenticity of the seal of Ma»sachusetts. These docuihents were mailed to Amsterdam. When Brother Hartog received them he went before the registry official in' Holland, with the bride on his ana, ‘ and made all the answers required in the marriage peremony. /