The acts for the registration of births, deaths, and marriages in England, 1836 to 1874 : and the acts for marriages in England, 1836 to 1872 : with other acts or parts of acts which concern the office or duties of the Registrar General and the duties of officers under the Registration Acts. With an index.

Date:
1878
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Credit: The acts for the registration of births, deaths, and marriages in England, 1836 to 1874 : and the acts for marriages in England, 1836 to 1872 : with other acts or parts of acts which concern the office or duties of the Registrar General and the duties of officers under the Registration Acts. With an index. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Library & Archives Service. The original may be consulted at London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Library & Archives Service.

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    REGISTRATION ACT, 183G. Guardians or over- seers to pay registrars. Registrars 29. And be it enacted, that every registrar shall iwcount8°Ut ma^f 0U^.an. :lccouut four times in every year of the quarterly, uumboi. ol biiths and deaths which he shall have regis- tered since the last quarterly account, and the superin- tendent registrar shall verify and sign the same; and the guardians or overseers ol the parish, township, or place in or for which he shall be registrar, on production of the said account so verified and signed, shall pay to the said registrar, out of the monies in their hands or power as such guardians or overseers, such sums as lie shall be entitled to receive on the said account according to the following scale; (that is to say,) for the first twenty entries of births and deaths [in every year (a,)] which he shall have registered, whether the same be of births or of deaths indiscriminately, two shillings and sixpence each, and one shilling for every subsequent entry of births or deaths in each year; and in the case of an union the said several sums shall be charged to the account of the parishes in which such births or deaths respectively shall have occurred. (6) 30. And be it enacted, that the Registrar General shall furnish or cause to be furnished to the rector, vicar, or curate of every church and chapel in England wherein marriages may lawfully be solemnized, and also to every person whom the recording clerk of the Society of Friends commonly called Quakers, at their central ofiice in London, shall from time to time certify in writing under his hand to the Registrar General to be a registering officer in England of the said society, and also to every person whom the president for the time being of the London Committee of Deputies of the British Jews shall from time to time certify in writing under his hand to the Registrar General to be the secre- tary of a synagogue in England of persons professing the Jewish religion, (c) a sufficient number in duplicate of marriage register books, and forms for certified copies Ma. j thereof, as herein-after provided ; . . . . (d) register^ 31. And be it enacted, that every clergyman of the to be kept Church of England, immediately after every office of in dupli- cate. — Marriage register books to be provided. (а) See Births and Deaths Registration Act, 1874, s. 31. (б) See Union Changeability Act, 28 & 29 Viet. c. 79. s. 1. As to the Metropolitan district, see 30 Viet. c. 6. s. 69. (e) See 19 & 20 Viet. c. 119. s. 22, respecting West London Synagogue. ((/) The latter part of this section repealed by 21 Viet. c. 25. s. 6.