BANNS OF MARRIAGE

¶ And when the Banns are published, it shall be in the following form:

I publish the Banns of Marriage between N.____________________ of____________________, and N.____________________ of ____________________. If any of you know cause, or just impediment, why these two persons should not be joined together in holy Matrimony, ye are to declare it. This is the first time of asking.

I publish the Banns of Marriage between N.____________________ of____________________, and N.____________________ of ____________________. If any of you know cause, or just impediment, why these two persons should not be joined together in holy Matrimony, ye are to declare it. This is the second time of asking.

I publish the Banns of Marriage between N.____________________ of____________________, and N.____________________ of ____________________. If any of you know cause, or just impediment, why these two persons should not be joined together in holy Matrimony, ye are to declare it. This is the third time of asking.

¶ The laws respecting Matrimony, whether by publishing the Banns in Churches, or by Licence, being different in the several States, every Minister is left to the direction of those laws, in every thing that regards the civil contract between the parties.