EMERSON C. HARRINGTON, GOVERNOR. 1609

as hereinbefore provided. And shall also perform all the other
duties of a local registrar provided in this Act.

No sexton or person in charge of any premises in which in-
terments are made shall inter or permit the interment or other
disposition of any body unless it is accompanied by a burial
permit, as provided in this Act. And each sexton or person in
charge of any burial ground shall indorse upon the permit, the
date of interment, over his signature, and shall return all per-
mits so indorsed to the local registrar of his district within ten
days from the date of interment. He shall also keep a record
of all interments made in the premises under his charge, stating
the name of the deceased person, place of death, date of burial
and name and address of the undertaker.

SEC. 11. No interment of the dead body of any human
being, or disposition thereof by entombment, cremation, trans-
portation, interment or any other manner or form of disposition
shall be made without a permit as aforesaid from the local reg-
istrar or deputy local registrar of the district where said per-
son died, or otherwise than in accordance with such permit.

The certificate of death shall be filled out and signed by the
physician last in attendance upon the deceased person within
24 hours after death, excepting in such cases where the
body is viewed by the coroner and an inquest is held upon the
same, in which case the certificate of death shall be filled out
and signed by the coroner. In case of death without medical
attendance or in case of sudden or violent death in which the
coroner does not deem it necessary to hold an inquest, the
certificate of death shall be executed and signed by the
local registrar or deputy local registrar from the best
information available, and all such certificates of death
shall be presented to the undertaker or other person
authorized to make disposition of the body. No person
whose duty it is under the provisions of this Act to make
out and sign a certificate of death shall make out and sign
more than one certificate of death, except those authorized to
do so under the provisions of this Act. In all cases of death
from smallpox, yellow fever, diphtheria, scarlet fever or other
contagious or infectious disease dangerous to public health,
the interment shall be conducted according to the rules of the
State Board of Health.

The transportation of the body of any diseased person from
one district to another district, or from one County into