The State of Tennessee, ---------Gibson County;

To any regular Minister of the Gospel having the
   care of Souls, or any Justice of the Peace
         for said County-----Greeting:

    These are to authorize you to solemize the rites of matrimony between
....G M Hopkins.....  ..and.... Mary Jane Carnes......
of your County, agreebly to an Act of Assembly in such case mde and
provided.  Provided, always, that the said ...Mary......
be an adult resident of this County, otherwise these shall be null and void,
and shall not be accounted any License or authority to you or either of you,
for the purposes aforesaid, more than though the same had never been prayed
or granted.   Given under my hand at the Clerk's Office in said county
this ..22......day or ..Decr.......1863
                              E W Raines Clerk

State of Tennessee (  I solemized the rite of Matrimony between the above named partieson the 
Gibson County       ) 22.....day of ..Decr................ 1863...
                                                A. R. Love M. G.
                        (on Tuesday night)