ART. — .] REGISTRATION.

residence and official station or title, of the person
solemnizing it, shall be duly stated or certified on
the back of said license by the person thus solemn-
izing it, and return thereof made as hereinafter pro-
vided ; and for all of which said particulars, suitable
blank forms shall be furnished by the comptroller of
the treasury to said clerks.

1865, c. 130 further enacts as follows :

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Blank forms to
be furnished

Third. In the record book of deaths, the date of
the death, the name of the deceased, the sex, the
color, the condition, (whether single, widowed or
married,) the age, the residence, the occupation, the
place of death, the place of birth, the names and
place of residence of the parents, the disease or
cause of death, the place of burial and the date of
record.

1805, c 130, s.1.
Record booh of
deaths.

2. The said record books provided for by the pre-
ceding section, shall be truly and regularly paged
and alphabetically indexed, in the case of births,
with the name of the child, (if it have a name,) and
if it have no name, then with the name of the father,
if its mother be a married woman, and if its mother
be unmarried, then with the name of the mother, in
the case of marriages with the names of both parties
to said marriage, and in the case of deaths with the
name of deceased, or if said deceased be an infant
without a name, then with the name of the father or
mother of said deceased infant.

Ibid, s 2.
Record books,
how paged,
indexed, &c.

3. Parents shall give notice of the facts herein
required, to the clerk of the court aforesaid, of the
county or city in which a birth or death may take
place, every householder shall give such notice of
every birth and death happening in his house, the
eldest person next of kin shall give notice of the
death of his kindred, the keeper of a prison, hospi-
tal, almshouse or other public institution, shall give
notice of every birth and death happening among
the persons under his charge; the person solemn-
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Ibid s.3.
Duties of
parents, house
holders, prison-
keepers, cler-
gymen, &c., to
give notice to
clerks of
courts.