Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 March 1901 — Votes Marriage Regulations. [ARTICLE]

Votes Marriage Regulations.

The state senate of Minnesota reconsidered and finally passed Senator Chilton’s bill prohibiting the marriage of insane, epileptic and idiotic persons, and requiring a medical certificate of all applicants for marriage licenses. Amendments were adopted making the physicians’ certificate not quite so sweeping and to permit the marriage of any feeble-minded person over 45, the bill originally having extended such permission only to women. The bill passed by a vote of 34 to 17.