First report to the General Assembly of Rhode Island, relative to the registry and returns of births, marriages, and deaths, in the state, for the year ending May 31, 1853 / prepared under the direction of Asa Potter.

  • Rhode Island General Assembly
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1854
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Credit: First report to the General Assembly of Rhode Island, relative to the registry and returns of births, marriages, and deaths, in the state, for the year ending May 31, 1853 / prepared under the direction of Asa Potter. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    1852-53.] THE PRESENT LAWS. scribed by the third section of the act to which this is in amendment, all information concerning births, marriages and deaths occur- ring amongst the inhabitants of their respective towns, and in said city, and annually to make duly certified returns thereof to the Secretary of State, for each year, ending on the first day of June. Sec. 2. It shall be the duty of the Secretary of State to re- ceive the returns made in puFsuance of the preceding section, and annually, with such assistance as shall be rendered by any author- ised committee of the Rhode Island Medical Society, to make and publish, not exceeding seven hundred copies, a general abstract thereof, in form as prescribed by the act to which this is in amend- ment. Sec. 3. The blank forms required by the third section of the act to which this is in amendment, to be furnished as therein di- rected, shall hereafter be furnished by the Secretary of State to clergymen, physicians, undertakers, town and city clerks, and clerks of the Society of Friends. Sec. 4. The city and town clerks shall receive for each record of a birth, marriage or death, made and returned as required by law, ten cents, to be paid to them out of the city and town trea- suries, of their respective towns: Provided, that the yearly com- pensation to any one town clerk who shall faithfully perform the duties prescribed by this act, and the act to which this is in amendment, shall not be less than five dollars. Sec. 5. If any clergyman, physician, undertaker, town or city clerk, or clerk of any meeting of the Society of Friends, shall wilfully neglect or refuse to perform any of the duties imposed or required by this act, or the act to which this is in amendment, he shall, at the discretion of the court or justice trying the cause, on conviction thereof, be fined not exceeding twenty dollars, to be recovered by complaint and warrant, one half thereof to the use of the town or city in which the offence shall occur, the other half to the person who shall prosecute for the same. Sec. 6. This act shall go into effect from and after the first day of June next, and from and after that time all acts and parts of acts inconsistent herewith shall be deemed and taken to be repealed. The characteristic features of the amendments, it will be seen, are that the certified Returns are to be made to the Secretary of State by the City and Town Clerks, who are allowed a moderate compensation for a faithful discharge of the duties required by tho 9
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