Instructions concerning the registration of births, marriages and deaths in Massachusetts : designed for town clerks and physicians / by Oliver Warner.

  • Oliver Warner
Date:
1868
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Credit: Instructions concerning the registration of births, marriages and deaths in Massachusetts : designed for town clerks and physicians / by Oliver Warner. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    LAWS COJTCERNING THE REGISTRATION OF BIRTHS, MARRIAGES AND DEATHS IN MASSACHUSETTS. [General Statutes—Chapter 21.] OF THE REGISTRY AND RETURNS OF BIRTHS, MARRIAGES AND DEATHS. Section 1. City and Town Clerks to obtain, record, and index certain facts concerning Births, Mar- riages, and Deaths. 2. Parents and others to give notice of Births and Deaths. 3. Physician to give Certificate of Cause of Death, when requested. Penalty. 4. Town Clerk to give Certificate of Registry of Death to the Person having charge of fu- neral rites preliminary to Interment, who shall deliver the same to the Person having charge of the Interment. No Interment to take place without such Certificate. Pen- alty, if Interment be without Certificate, and if Notice be not forthwith given, twenty dollars. 5. Clerk annually to transmit certified Copies of Record to Secretary. Section 6. Record or Certificate of Clerk to be prima facie evidence in Legal Proceedings. 7. Clerks—Fees of; payable by City or Town; Accounts of, to be certified by Secretary. Penalty for non-performance of duty. 8. Superintendents of State Almshouses to ob- tain, record and return to Secretary, births and deaths. Town Clerks exempt. 9. Secretary to furnish Blank Books and Forms for returns, with Instructions and Explana- tions. Clerks to distribute the Blank Forms for Returns. 10. Secretary,—to cause Returns to be bound, &c.;—to Report to Legislature, &c.;—to do all other acts necessary. 11. Registrars may be chosen, in certain cases, in place of Town Clerks. Section 1. The clerk of each city and town shall receive or obtain, and record, and index, the following facts concerning the births, marriages, and deaths, therein, separately numbering and recording the same in the order in which he receives them, designating in separate columns: In the record of births, the date of the birth, the place of birth, the namd of the child, (if it have any,) the sex and color of the child, the names and places of birth of the parents, the occupation of the father, the residence of the parents, and the date of the record ; In the record of marriages, the date of the marriage, the place of mar- riage, the name, residence, and official station of the person by whom married, the names and the places of birth of the parties, the residence of each, the age and color of each, the condition of each, (whether single or widowed,) the occupation, the names of the parents, and the date of the record; In the record of deaths, the date of the death, the name of the deceased, the sex, the color, the condition, (whether single, widowed, or married,) the age, the residence, the occupation, the place of death, the place ot birth the names and places of birth of the parents, the disease or cause of death, the place of burial, and the date of the record. Section 2. Parents shall give notice to the clerk of their city or town of the births and deaths of their children; every householder shall give like notice of every birth and death happening in his house; the eldest