It scarcely needs to add that, at present, the marriage requirements as to license, age, etc., are in all States precisely the same both for white and colored people. NOTES Footnote 117: Laws of Fla., 1865, p. 31. Footnote 118: _Ibid._, 1866, p. 22. Footnote 119: Art. II, sec. 5, par. 5. Footnote 120: Laws of Ga., 1865–66, p. 240. Footnote 121: Comer v. Comer, 1892, 91 Ga. 314. Footnote 122: Williams v. State, 1881, 67 Ga. 260. Footnote 123: Laws of Ga., 1866, p. 156. Footnote 124: Laws of Mo., 1864, p. 68. Footnote 125: Laws of S. C., 1865, pp. 291–92. Footnote 126: _Ibid._, 1871–72, pp. 162–63. Footnote 127: Laws of Ky., 1865–66, p. 37. Footnote 128: Estill v. Rogers, 1866, 1 Bush (Ky.) 62. Footnote 129: Stewart, of color, v. Munchandler, 1867, 2 Bush (Ky.) 278. Footnote 130: Scott v. Lairamore, 1895, 32 S. W. 172. Footnote 131: Laws of Ky., 1898, pp. 102–03. Footnote 132: Revised Stat. of La., 1870, p. 436, sec. 2212. Footnote 133: Pierre v. Fontennette, 1873, 25 La. Ann. 617. Footnote 134: Laws of Md., 1867, p. 858. Footnote 135: Code, 1867, p. 64. Footnote 136: Washington v. Washington, 1881, 69 Ala. 281. Footnote 137: Stikes v. Swanson, 1870, 44 Ala. 633. See Haden v. Ivey, 1874, 51 Ala. 381. Footnote 138: Acts of Ark., 1866–67, p. 52. Footnote 139: Laws of Tenn., 1865–66, pp. 65 and 81; Laws, 1869–70, p. 92. Footnote 140: Art. XII, sec. 27. Footnote 141: Cumby v. Garland, 1894, 25 S. W. 673; Coleman v. Vollmer, 1895, 31 S. W. 413. Footnote 142: Laws of Va., 1865–66, pp. 85–86. Footnote 143: Laws of W. Va., 1866, p. 102; Laws, 1872–73, p. 502. Footnote 144: Laws of Ill., 1891, pp. 163–64. Footnote 145: Butler v. Butler, 1896, 44 N. E. 203. Footnote 146: McDowell v. Sapp, 1883, 39 O. S. 558. Footnote 147: Minor v. Jones, 1876, 2 Redf. Sur. (N. Y.) 289. Footnote 148: Down v. Allen, 1882, 78 Tenn. (10 Lea) 652. Footnote 149: 17 Stat. L., 570, chap. 234, par. 11. CHAPTER VI INTERMARRIAGE AND MISCEGENATION One race distinction, which has not been confined to the South, and which has, in a large measure, escaped the adverse criticism heaped upon other race distinctions is the prohibition of miscegenation between the Caucasian and the colored races. The term “miscegenation” includes both intermarriage and all forms of illicit intercourse between the races. Twenty-six States and Territories, including all the Southern States, have laws forbidding the admixture of the races; applying not only to Negroes, but also to Indians and Mongolians in States where the latter races are present in considerable numbers. INTERMARRIAGE DURING RECONSTRUCTION