270 REGISTRATION OF BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, AND DEATHS. [ART. 30.

Id s 2 Record books, indexed, etc.	2. The said record books provided for by the preceding 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 de- ce'ased infant
Id s 3 Duties of parents, house- holders, prison- keepers, clergy- men, etc, to give notice to clerks of courts.	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, hospital, almshouse, or other public institution, shall give notice of every birth and death happening among the persons under his charge; the person solemnizing or performing the mar- riage ceremony shall give such notice; any such person neglecting or refusing to give such notice for the space of six months after
Penalty	a birth, marriage, or death, shall forfeit and pay a sum not exceed- ing five dollars
Id 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 de- cease of such person, forthwith 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.
Id s 5 Of sextons, coroners, under- takers, etc.	5. Every sexton, coroner, undertaker, or other person, having charge of the obsequies or funeral rites, preliminary to the inter- ment of the body of a stranger 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 occurred, the facts required by this act to be recorded by said officer concerning the deceased; any person neglecting or refusing to make such return within one
Penalty.	month thereafter shall forfeit and pay a sum not exceeding ten dollars.
Id s 6 Notice may be given to justices.	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 be the duty of
Duty of same	the said justices of the peace to. transmit the same to said clerk every three months.
Id s 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 preceding.