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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    facts in relation to the births and deaths which occur in their respective institutions, in like manner as is required of town clerks. The clerks of said towns shall, in relation to the births and deaths of persons in said almshouses, be exempt from the duties otherwise required of them by this chapter. Section 9. 'Mxe secretary shall at the expense of the Commonwealth prepare and furnish to the clerks of the several cities and towns, and to the superintendents of the state almshouses, blank books of suitable quality and size to be used as books of record under this chapter, blank books for indexes thereto, and blank forms for returns, on paper of uniform size; and shall accompany the same with such instructions and explanations as may be necessary and useful. City and town clerks shall make such distribution of blank forms of returns furnished by the secretary as he shall direct. Section 10. The secretary shall cause the returns received by him for each year to be bound together in one or more volumes, with indexes thereto. He shall prepare from the returns such tabular results as will render them of practical utility, make report thereof annually to the legis- lature, and do all other acts necessary to carry into effect the provisions of this chapter. Section 11. Any city or town containing more than ten thousand inhabitants, may choose a person other than the clerk to be registrar, who shall be sworn, and to whom all the provisions of this chapter concerning clerks shall apply. The returns and notices required to be made and given to clerks shall be made and given to such registrar under like penalities. Section 12. The secretary of this Commonwealth shall prosecute, by an action of tort, in the name of the Commonwealth, for the recovery of any penalty or forfeiture imposed by this chapter. Section 13. Any city or town may make rules and regulations to enforce the provisions of this chapter, or to secure a more perfect regis- tration of births, marriages, and deaths therein. [General Statutes—Chapter 106.] OF MARRIAGE. Section 7. Notice of Intention of Marriage to be entered ■with Town Clerk. 8. Certificate of Record of Intention to be given to Parties by Clerk. Sucti certificate to be delivered to Person before ■whom Marriage is to be solemnized. 9. Certificate not to issue to certain Minors, except on application of Parent, &c. Penalty. 10. Clerk may require Affidavit of Age. 11. Penalty for making False Statement. 12. Parties living in State and Married out of it, to file certificate on return. Penalty. 13. No person to .solemnize Marriage of a Minor without consent of Parents, if any in the State competent to act. Section 14. Marriages, by Whom to be solemnized, and in what place. 15. Marriages among Quakers. 16. Persons solemnizing Marriages to keep Kec- ord and to make Returns to certain Town Clerks. Clerk to record all Marriages so returned. 17. Penalty for not making Returns. 18. Penalty for solemnizing a Marriage unlaw- fully. 19. Penalty, on person not authorized to marry. 21. Record of Marriage, or certified copy thereof, presumptive Evidence of Marriage.