In 1943, the Legislature passed the Act to prohibit billboards, signs, posters, or display advertising of any kind, or information booths, intended to aid in the solicitation or performance of marriages. P charged that D maintained a sign at the entrance to his home and also a sign along a highway leading into the town, to aid in the solicitation and performance of marriages. Four photographs were admitted in evidence. P showed that during the month of August, 1947, thirty ministers performed 1,267 marriages in Cecil County, and of this number, D performed 286, only three of which were ceremonies in which the parties were residents of Cecil County. The judge excluded testimony offered to show that the State's Attorney advised D in 1944, before he erected the signs, that they would not violate the law. D was found guilty and appealed.

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