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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    [General Statutes—Section 1 of Chapter 174.] • Sentence when no punishment is prOTiJeJ. Section 1. In cases of ]e<2;al conviction, where no punishment is pro- vided by statute, the court shall award such sentence as is conformable to the common usage and practice in this State, according to the nature ot' the offence, and not repugnant to the constitutioni [Chapter 138.] An Act concerning the Registry and Return of Marriages, Births and Deaths. Section 1. The clerk of each city and town, (except in such cities and towns as choose a registrar, under the eleventh section of the twenty- first chapter of the General Statutes, in Avhich cases the provisions of this act shall apply to the registrar,) for receiving or obtaining, recording, index- ing and returning the facts relating to Marriages, Births and Deaths occur- ring therein, shall be entitled to receive therefrom the sums following, viz.: for each Marriage, fifteen cents ; for each Birth, thirty cents ; for each Death returned to him by the persons specified in sections two, three and four of chapter twenty-one of the General Statutes, twenty cents for each of the first twenty entries, and ten cents for each subsequent entry; for each Death not so returned, but by him obtained and recorded, twenty cents. Section 2. Chapter ninety-six of the acts of the year eighteen hun- dred and sixty-five, and so much of section seven of the twenty-first chapter of the General Statutes as is inconsistent herewdth, are hereby repealed. Section 3. This act shall take effect upon its passage. [^Approved April 7, 1866.