Section 3
SEC. 3. Section six of General Orders, Numbered Sixty-eight, is hereby amended to read as follows: "SEC. VI. No particular form for the ceremony of marriage is required, but the parties must declare, in the presence of the person solemnizing the marriage and of two witnesses of lawful age, that they take each other as husband and wife. This declaration shall be made of record in an instrument which shall be issued in triplicate and signed by signature or mark by the parties and the aforesaid two witnesses and attested by the person solemnizing the marriage: Provided, however, That the marriage shall be solemnized publicly in the office of the court or municipal government or in the church, chapel, or temple, according to whether the marriage is solemnized by an official or by a priest or minister of any denomination or religion, and not elsewhere, except in cases of marriages contracted on the point of death or when the parents or guardians of the female request it in writing, in which cases the marriage may be solemnized at the house or place designated by said parents of the female. "Any violation of this section by any officer, priest, or minister shall be punished by a fine of not less than twenty-five pesos nor more than two hundred and fifty, or by imprisonment for not less than five days nor more than thirty, or both, in the discretion of the court."