Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 August 1901 — TAYLOR'S RULING. [ARTICLE]

TAYLOR'S RULING.

Alarms Many Jjy Asserting What Constitutes a Legal Marriage. The action of Attorney General Taylor in declaring that marriages in Indiana are illegal where licenses have been issued by county clerks to couples where the woman is not a resident of the issuing county, has brought about great apprehension in many families throughout the state. Innumerable cases in other counties beside Clark county, where the notorious Jefferson villo Gretna Green exists, the law, it seems, has been violated. As a result of the attorney general’s decision, county clerks have been besieged with letters coming from alarmed men and women asking to be informed whether tne ceremony which united them in marriage is legal. In several cases the ceremony has been solemnized a second time in order to make all secure against question. If his decision is a good law it will effect many married couples in this vicinity. Hardly a month passes but what parties from Newton county come here for a license in preference to going the roundabout way to Kentland. According to the decision of the attorney general their marriages would be illegal and they might be prosecuted for living together as man and wife.