constitution put a stop to this evil custom, many such applications were referred to the circuit courts, the full legal requirement being similarly waived.[353] The early Minnesota lawmakers found plenty of business of the same kind. "Be it enacted," runs a decree of the assembly in 1849, "that the marriage heretofore existing between Catherine Hathaway and her husband, Isaac Hathaway, ... is hereby dissolved; and the said parties are restored to all the rights and privileges of unmarried persons."[354] Another example seems to show that a "pale-face" cannot always live happily with a "dusky mate." It is solemnly declared "that Louis Laramie is hereby divorced from Wa-kan-ye-ke-win, his wife, as fully and effectually, as if the legal ceremony of marriage and its rites had never been solemnized."[355] Similar decrees appear in the statute-book until in 1856 constitutional authority finally put a stop to legislative interference.[356] [347] Special divorce acts may be found in the _Ter. Laws of Mich._, II, 655, 709, 710, 752, 753, 769; III, 840, 842, 847, 895, 901, 905 (three cases), 907 (two cases). [348] _Laws of Ill._ (1817-18), 356. [349] Thus on Jan. 15, 1825, two decrees were granted in one bill: _Laws_ (1825), 120. [350] Act of Feb. 15, 1831: _Laws_, 71, 72. There is another example in _Laws_ (1839), 79. [351] _Laws of a Local Nature_ (1838), 406. [352] _Laws of a Local Nature_ (1842), 117. [353] _Cf._ _ibid._ (1842), 119, 120, 121; _ibid._ (1844), 148; _ibid._ (1849), 203, 300 (two cases); _ibid._ (1850), 105, 129, 194, 342, 344; _ibid._ (1851), 404, 441, 497. [354] _Laws of Minn._ (1849), 89. [355] _Ibid._ [356] For examples see _Laws_ (1851), 39, 40 (four cases); and _ibid._ (1852), 60, 61 (two cases). Seven of the acts cited are also given or restated in _Collected Stat. of the Ter. of Minn. and Decis. of Supreme Court_ (1853).