The clerk of the circuit court in each county shall be the legal custodian of the records and papers relating to marriage licenses and certificates of marriage formerly kept by the clerk of the probate court of each county.Codes, 1871, § 570; 1880, § 1492; 1892, § 2865; 1906, § 3250; Hemingway's 1917, § 2557; 1930, § 2368; 1942, § 466.
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