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

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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IS 34. And be it enacted, that every superintendent Superin- registrar shall, four times in every year, on such days as shall be therefor named by the Registrar General, send t0 sen(j to the Registrar General all the certified copies of the certified registers of births, deaths, and marriages which he shall have so received during the three calendar months next to the preceding such quarterly days of transmission respec- General tively; and if it shall appear, by interruption of the gjgjj*** regular progression of numbers or otherwise, that the copy of any part of any book has not been duly delivered to him, he shall procure, as far as possible, consistently with the provisions of this Act, that the same may be remedied and supplied; and every such superintendent registrar shall be entitled to receive the sum of two- pence for every entry in such certified copies; and every superintendent registrar shall make out an account four times in every year of the number of entries in the certified copies sent to him during the last quarter, and the certified copies so sent to the General Registry Office shall be thereafter kept in the said office in such order and manner as the Registrar General, under the direction of the [Secretary of State], shall think fit. so that the same may be most readily seen and examined. 35. And be it enacted, that every rector, vicar, or Searches curate, and every registrar, registering officer, and secre- may be tary who shall have the keeping for the time being of J^ficates any register book of births, deaths, or marriages, shall at given by all reasonable times allow searches to be made of any tbe persons register book in his keeping, and shall give a copy certi- the re^r fied under his hand of any entry or entries in the same, ters!'^ on payment of the fee herein-after mentioned ; (that is to say,) for every search extending over a period not more than one year the sum of one shilling, and sixpence additional for every additional year, and the sum of two shillings and sixpence for every single certificate. 36. [Indexes to be made at the superintendent regis- trar’s office, and persons alloived to search them.(a)] 37. And be it enacted, that the Registrar General heStat0 shall cause indexes of all the said certified copies of the General* registers to be made and kept in the General Register ReSister Office; and that every person shall be entitled, onpay- Seiches ment, of the fees herein-after mentioned, to search the allowed said indexes between the hours of ten in the mornino-and cert’- — — fied copies

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