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[CITE: 48USC736]

 
              TITLE 48--TERRITORIES AND INSULAR POSSESSIONS
 
                         CHAPTER 4--PUERTO RICO
 
                    SUBCHAPTER I--GENERAL PROVISIONS
 
Sec. 736. Puerto Rican law modified

    So much of the law which was in force at the time of cession, April 
11th, 1899, forbidding the marriage of priests, ministers, or followers 
of any faith because of vows they may have taken, being paragraph 4, 
article 83, chapter 3, civil code, and which was continued by the order 
of the secretary of justice of Puerto Rico, dated March 17, 1899, and 
promulgated by Major General Guy V. Henry, United States Volunteers, is 
repealed and annulled, and all persons lawfully married in Puerto Rico 
shall have all the rights and remedies conferred by law upon parties to 
either civil or religious marriages. Paragraph 1, article 105, section 
4, divorce, civil code, and paragraph 2, section 19, of the order of the 
minister of justice of Puerto Rico, dated March 17, 1899, and 
promulgated by Major General Guy V. Henry, United States Volunteers, are 
so amended as to read: ``Adultery on the part of either the husband or 
the wife.''

(Apr. 12, 1900, ch. 191, Sec. 8, 31 Stat. 79; May 17, 1932, ch. 190, 47 
Stat. 158.)

                          Codification

    Section was not enacted as part of the Puerto Rican Federal 
Relations Act which comprises this chapter.

                         Change of Name

    ``Puerto Rico'' substituted in text for ``Porto Rico'' pursuant to 
act May 17, 1932, which is classified to section 731a of this title.
