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

  • Oliver Warner
Date:
1873
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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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    Section 8. The superintendents of the state almshouses at Tewks*- bury, Bridgewater, and Monson, shall obtain, record, and make return of the 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. The secretary shall at the expense of the Common- wealth 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 use- ful. City and town clerks shall make such distribvition of blank forms of returns furnished by the secretary as he shall du'ect. 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 re- sults as will render them of practical utility, make report thereof annually to the legislature, and do all other acts necessary to carry into effect the provisions of this chapter. Section 11. Any cit}^ or town containing more than ten thousand inhabitants, ma}^ 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 penalties. 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 foreiture imposed by this chapter. Section 13. Any city or town maj^ make rules and regulations to enforce the provisions of this chapter, or to secure a more perfect registration of births, marriages, and deaths, therein. [General Statutes—Chapter 106.] OF MARRIAGE. Section 7. Notice of Intention of Marriage to be en- tered with Town Clerk. 8. Certificate of Record of Intention to be given to Parties by Clerk. Sucb certificate to be delivered to Person before whom Marriage is to be solemnized. 9. Certificate not to issue to certain Minors, ex- cept 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, ancj in what Place. 15. Marriages among Quakers. 16. Persons solemnizing Marriages to keep Rec- 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 there - of, presumptive evidence of Marriage.