PHILLIPS LEE GOLDSBOROUGH, ESQ., GOVERNOR. 1139

vided in this section for proper and correct certificates and rec-
ords of births and deaths.

SEC. 17. The State registrar may upon request furnish any
applicant for proper purposes a certified copy of the record of
any birth or death registered under the provisions of this act,
and any such copy of the record of a birth or death, when prop-
erly certified by the State registrar to be a true copy thereof,
shall be prima facie evidence in all courts and places of the
facts therein stated. For each such certified statement he shall
receive a fee of fifty cents, together with payment for the time
of search, if over half an hour, at the rate of fifty cents an hour,
to be paid by the applicant.

SEC. 18. That any physician who was in medical attend-
ance upon any deceased person at the time of death who shall
neglect or refuse to make out and deliver to the undertaker, sex-
ton or other person in charge of the interment, removal or other
disposition of the body, the certificate of death, hereinbefore
provided for, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and,
upon conviction thereof, shall be fined not less than five dollars
nor more than fifty dollars. And if any physician shall know-
ingly make a false certification of the cause of death in any case
he shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon convic-
tion thereof shall be fined not less than fifty dollars nor more
than two hundred dollars.

And any physician or midwife in attendance upon a case of
confinement, or any other person charged with responsibility
for reporting births, in the order named in sections 13 and 14
of this act, who shall neglect or refuse to file a proper certifi-
cate of birth with the local or deputy local registrar within
the time required by this act, shall be deemed, guilty of a
misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be fined not
less than five dollars nor more than fifty dollars.

And any undertaker, sexton or other person acting as under-
taker, who shall inter, remove or otherwise dispose of the
body of any deceased person, without having received a burial
removal permit as hereinbefore provided, shall be deemed
guilty of a mis'demeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be
fined not less than twenty nor more than one hundred dollars.

And any county registrar, local registrar, deputy local regis-
trar who shall neglect or fail to enforce the provisions of this
act in his district, or shall neglect or refuse to perform any of
the duties imposed upon him by this act, or by the rules and
regulations of the State Board of Health, shall be deemed
guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be