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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    [General Statutes—Section 1 of Chapter 174.] SENTENCE WHEN NO PUNISHMENT IS PROVIDED, Section 1. In cases of legal conviction, where no punishment is provided by statute, the court shall award such sentence as is conform- able to the common usage and practice in this State, according to the nature of the offence, and not repugnant to the constitution. [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 which cases the pro- visions of this act shall apply to the registrar,) for receiving or ob- taining, recording, indexing, and returning the facts relating to Marriages, Births and Deaths occurring 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 hundred and sixty-five, and so much of section seven of the twenty- first chapter of the General Statutes as is inconsistent herewith, are hereby repealed. * Section 3. This act shall take effect upon its passage. ^Approved April 7, 1866. [Chapter 58.] AN ACT RELATING TO THE MARRIAGE OF NON-RESIDENT PARTIES. Section 1. Persons living without the Commonwealth and intend- ing to be joined in Marriage within the Commonwealth, shall, before their Marriage, cause notice of their intention to be entered in the office of the clerk or registrar of the city or town in which they pro- pose to have the Marriage solemnized ; and no Marriage between such parties shall be solemnized until they have delivered to the justice of the peace, or minister in whose presence the Marriage is to be con- tracted, a certificate from such clerk or registrar, specifying the time when notice of the intention of Marriage was entered with him, together with all facts in relation to the Marriage required bylaw to be ascertained and recorded, except those respecting the person by whom the Marriage is to be solemnized. Section 2. Marriages may be solemnized by a justice of the peace in the county for which he is appointed. Section 3. A justice of the peace or minister who joins persons in marriage contrary to the provisions of this act shall forfeit not less than fifty nor more than one hundred dollars. ^Approved March 11, 1867.