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the purposes of legal investigations, twenty-five cents, to be paid
by the person to whom such permit issued; for a copy of the
record of a birth or death, twenty-five cents together with payment
for time of search, if over half an hour, at the rate of fifty cents
an hour, to be paid by the person to whom such copy is furnished.
The State registrar shall certify to each local registrar quarterly,
or oftener, if it shall be considered expedient, the number of
properly executed certificates of births and deaths received from
such local registrar for the year or portion of year included;
provided, that cities having a population of ten thousand inhabi-
tant or over, shall have power to fix the compensation of local
registrars for the duties required by this sub title of this article.

1898, ch., 312.

6 L. The State Registrar shall receive the certificates returned
under this sub-title of this article, permanently bind and preserve
them, make indexes thereto, and issue certified statements of the
facts relating to any birth or death. For 'each such certified
statement he shall receive a fee of twenty-five cents, together
with a payment for the time of search, if over half an hour, at
the rate of fifty cents an hour, to be paid by the person asking
such certified statement.

Ibid.

6 M. Any physician or mid-wife, coroner or undertaker, whose
duty it is, who fails to report a birth as provided by section 6 G
of this article, shall be liable to a fine of not less than five nor
more than twenty-five dollars, or be imprisoned not less than
thirty days, or be both fined and imprisoned, in the discretion of
the court. Any undertaker, express agent, railroad official or
employe, or other person controlling, directing or in charge of
the interment, entombment, removal or other disposition of the
body of a deceased person before the record shall be made as
required by section 6 e of this article shall be liable to a fine of
not less than ten nor more than five hundred dollars, or to be
imprisoned not to exceed thirty days, or to both fine and impris-
onment. Any physician who shall refuse or fail to make a
proper and correct certificate of the cause of death of any person
upon whom he or she was the last medical attendant, to the best
of his knowledge or belief, shall be liable to a fine of not less