[Sidenote: Return.]

The person solemnizing marriage shall forfeit a like amount, unless
within ninety days after the ceremony he shall make return thereof to
the clerk of the district court. [§3387.]

[Sidenote: Register of marriages.]

The clerk of the district court shall keep a register containing the
names of the parties, the date of the marriage, and the name of the
person by whom the marriage was solemnized, which, or a certified
transcript therefrom, is receivable in all courts and places as evidence
of the marriage and the date thereof. [§3388] The register of marriages
kept by the clerk is always sufficient to establish marriage, in the
absence of evidence to the contrary, but record evidence is not
indispensable. The fact of marriage may be shown in various ways. It may
be proved by the admissions or uncontradicted testimony of either party,
or a legal presumption may be raised by the testimony of either husband
or wife with proof of continued cohabitation. The evidence of witnesses
who were present and witnessed the marriage is always sufficient.

[Sidenote: Peculiar mode.]

These provisions so far as they relate to procuring licenses and to the
solemnizing of marriages, are not applicable to members of any
particular denomination having, as such, any peculiar mode of entering
the marriage relation [§3389].

[Sidenote: Husband responsible for return.]