But an able chirurgeon cannot be had in every parifli. Such a receptacle Ihould therefore be provided for thofe patients:
but no others fhould be admitted.
Marriages muH: be folemnized either on fpecial hcence, granted by the firft magif- trate of the county, on proof of the confent of the parent or guardian of either party under age, or after folemn pubUcation, on three feveral Sundays, at fome place of religious worfliip, in the parilhes where the parties refide. The adl of folemnization may be by the minifter of any fociety of Chriftians, who fhall have been previoufly licenfed for this purpofe by the court of the county. Quakers and Menonifts, however, are exempted from all thefe conditions, and marriage among them is to be folemnized by the fociety itfelf.
A foreigner of any nation, not in open war with us, becomes naturaUzed by removing to the ftate to refide, and taking an oath of fidelity : and thereupon acquires every right of a native citizen : and citizens [ 26o 1 may diveft themfelves of that charafter, by declaring, by folemn deed, or in open court, that they mean to expatriate them- felves, and no longer to be citizens of this ftate.
Conveyances of land muft be regiftered in the court of the county wherein they lie, or in the general court, or they are void, as to creditors, and fubfequent pur- chafers.
Slaves pafs by defcent and dower as lands do. Where the defcent is from a parent, the heir is bound to pay an equal ihare of their value in money to each of his brothers and filters.
Slaves, as well as lands, were entailable during the monarchy: but, by an a6t of the firft republican aflembly, all donees in tail, prefent and future, were vefted with the abfolute dominion of the entailed fiibjed.