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REGISTRATION. [ART. — .

izing or performing the marriage ceremony shall
give such notice; any such person neglecting or
refusing to give such notice for the space of six
months after a birth, marriage or death, shall forfeit

Penalty

and pay a sum not exceeding five dollars.

Ibid s 4
Duty of
physicians

4. Any physician having attended a person during
his or her last illness, shall when requested, within
fifteen days after the decease of such person, forth-
with furnish information of the duration of the last
sickness, the disease of which the person died or
cause of death, and the date of the decease as nearly
as he can state the same.

Ibid s.6.
Of sextons,
coroners, un-
dertakers, &c.

5. Every sexton, coroner, undertaker or other per-
son, having charge of the obsequies or funeral rites,
preliminary to the interment of the body of a stran-
ger or friendless person, shall forthwith obtain and
return to the clerk aforesaid of the county or city in
which the deceased resided or the death occured, the
facts required by this act to be recorded by said
officer concerning the deceased ; any person neglect-
ing or refusing to make such return within one

Penalty

month thereafter shall forfeit and pay a sum not
exceeding ten dollars.

Ibid. s. 6
Notice may be
given to jus-
tices.

6. The notice required to be furnished by sections
three and five according to section one, may for
greater convenience be deposited with any justice of
the peace residing in the election district wherein
the birth, marriage or death takes place, and it shall

Duty of same.

be the duty of the said justices of the peace to trans-
mit the same to said clerk every three months.

Ibid c 7
Certified copies
to be transmit-
ted to secretary
of senate.

7. The clerk of the court aforesaid shall annually
on or before the first day of February transmit to
the secretary of the senate certified copies of the
records of the births, marriages and deaths, which
shall have occurred in said county or city during
the year ending on the thirty-first of December pre-
ceding.

Ibid s. 8.
Record of
births, &c ,
evidence.

8. The records of the clerks of said courts relative
to any births, marriages or deaths shall be prima
fade evidence in legal proceedings of the facts re-