Rerecording where marriage records are destroyed
In counties where marriage records were burned or destroyed, the local records office keeps a special book. People whose marriage record was lost can bring in their original marriage certificate to prove it is real, and have it recorded again. Their children and grandchildren can do this too. The officer who records it gets paid 50 cents per certificate.
451.210. Reing where marriage records are destroyed — fee. — In all counties of this state where the records of marriages have been burned or otherwise destroyed, the or other officer whose duty it may be to record s of marriages shall purchase at the expense of his county a substantially bound book in which he shall record certificates of marriage, produced, and shown to him to be genuine, by any or parties whose record of marriage has been burned or otherwise destroyed, and the and of such party or parties may produce the herein contemplated, and have the same , and the or officer recording shall receive therefor the sum of fifty cents for each certificate recorded.
(RSMo 1939 § 3644)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 3254; 1919 § 10616; 1909 § 10427
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