New York Domestic Relations Law Section 18 - Clergymen or officer, when protected.

  18.  Clergymen  or  officer,  when protected. Any such clergymen or
  officer as aforesaid to whom any such license duly issued may  come  and
  not  having  personal  knowledge  of  the  incompetency  of either party
  therein named to contract matrimony, may  lawfully  solemnize  matrimony
  between them.

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