Baker County GaArchives History .....Divorce Legislation for Eldridge Fulgham December 29 1847
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ACTS OF THE STATE OF GEORGIA 1847. 
[missing title] 

1847 Vol. 1 -- Page: 271

Sequential Number: 235 

Full Title: AN ACT to repeal so much of the act approved the fifth December, 
1806, amendatory of the act to carry into effect the ninth section of the third 
article of the Constitution, approved the first of December, 1802, for the 
benefit of Eldridge Fulgham, of the county of Baker.

WHEREAS the third section of the act of eighteen hundred and six, above 
referred to, prohibits, in cases of absolute divorces, the party whose improper 
or criminal conduct shall have authorized the divorce, from marrying again 
during the life of the other party, and subjects such party so marrying to the 
pains and penalties enacted against bigamy; and whereas the circumstances 
attending the case of said Eldridge Fulgham are peculiar and should be relieved:

SECTION 1. Be it therefore enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives 
in General Assembly met, That the said Eldridge Fulgham be and he is hereby 
permitted to contract marriage and consummate the same, without incurring the 
pains and penalties prescribed by the act of eighteen hundred and six, 
aforesaid.

CHARLES J. JENKINS,

Speaker of the House of Representatives.

ANDREW J. MILLER,

President of the Senate.

GEORGE W. TOWNS, Governor.

Approval Date: Approved, December 29, 1847.



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