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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    [Chapter 275.] AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE APPOINTMENT, AND TO DEFINE THE DUTIES OF UNDERTAKERS. Section 1. The boards of health of towns and the mayor and alder- men of cities shall, on or before the first day of July next, and each year thereafter, license a suitable number of Undertakers to take charge of the obsequies or funeral rites preliminary to the interment of a human body, if, in the judgment of such boards, a sufficient number are not already licensed in their respective places. Any Undertaker, having such charge, shall forthwith obtain and return, to the clerk of the city or town in which the deceased resided or the death occurred, the facts required, by chapter twenty-one of the General Statutes, to be recorded by said oflftcer concerning the deceased ; the clerk shall thereupon give to the Undertaker a certificate as provided for in section four of said chapter, which certificate the Undertaker shall deliver to the person having charge of the interment in accordance with the provisions of said fourth section. Any Undertaker violating any of the provisions of this act shall be punished by a fine of twenty dollars for each viola- tion of the duties herein prescribed^ to be imposed by any court of competent jurisdiction. Section 2. Nothing herein contained shall exempt any sexton or other person named in the fourth section of the twenty-first chapter of the General Statutes from the provisions and penalties prescribed in said section in cases where an undertaker appointed as provided in this act is not employed in charge of the obsequies. Section 3. The secretary of the Commonwealth shall send a copy of this act to the clerks of the several cities and towns, within thirty days from its passage. [^Approved April 29, 1872. [Chapter 145.] AN ACT FIXING THE FEES OF CLERKS AND REGISTRARS FOR THE REGISTRY AND RETURN OF BIRTHS. Section 1. The clerk or registrar of a city or town shall receive the sum of fifty cents for receiving or obtaining, recording, indexing and returning the facts relating to each Birth ; but a cit}^ or town con- taining more than ten thousand inhabitants may limit the aggregate compensation allowed to their clerk or registrar. Section 2. This act shall take eflfect upon its passage. \_Approved April 2, 1878. [Chapter 202.] AN ACT RELATING TO THE FEES OF SEXTONS AND OTHERS. Section 1. Section four of chapter twenty-one is hereby amended by striking out the word ten after the words fee of, and insert- ing instead thereof, the words twent^^-five. Section 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage. \_Approved April 16, 1873.