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**OFFfCE OF**  **THE ATTORNEY**  **GENERAL OF**  **TEXAS AUSTIN** 

Honorable 'W.

A. Devllr Stste Regi8traT :;tsts Eosrd o? lJeaLth Austin 2, Ten8
Dear Sir:

four reoent IDtter r oplnlon'el8

to the pger II lng with 8 Dintriot Court dlvIdoal on your reoortlrr.

if neither method aglotrer how to p-rooourt order,.*

snd nt to your inquiry e8 to birth if3 aa~rOllOW6t State Department of Health **ohall ’**  end supply to 611 reglatrerrr~:; tom used In regimtarln@, reoording and preservIrq the returns, crt,.ln otherwlee oarryiug out the puTpose d thla Aot, end esak olty 

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### town shell print 2nd @upply its local registrar, and each oounty shell print end supply We County CleSk ~~.~lt.b pemnsnent reoord books, in forn e,proved by the Stats ReglsWar, for the TsoordIng of all blrtha and deethsplaaotiable '3. **A.** Davis, **Pe(re** i3 

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oooarrlng within thalr reapeatlve Jurladiotlona. The State Registrar ahall prepare **and** leaue auoh detailed instruotionass 6my be required to psocure the uniform obaervanoe of lta provlalona alld the melntenanoe of a perfect system oi re~latratlon; and no other'tom6 shallbe wed than those approved by the State Dupertment d Health. Xe shall osreruny **oumlne** the **oertlfVioa~te8** raoelved **monthly Srom**  **the** loos1 re$latjrara~, and lf any.suoh are lao&plete **or** tmastlafao~orybe shall **require** 6ueh further lnformtlon to be aupplled as may be ne8easary to~.arke the ~fmord oomplate and aatlafa6tory. 

### And aU phyaloiana, midwives, lnlormanta, or undortskerr, end all **other ’** **pereona** herind:knorl**ed&e** of the faota, **are** hereby required 'tosupply, upon s form provided by the State Departad? of Health, or upon the orIgina oortlfioate, auoh luiomatlon as they say 

### poaaeaaregardlm eny **birth** or deeth,~upon demend of the~Sfata

### Registrarla parson, by mall, or through th& loeel regletrer;

by the name of deoedenta, and in.the oaae of births, by the namea of rathers **and** mothore. + * +* V.A.O.S., lOiN, Artials 4477, Rule bl-a. (Onderaoorln$ours). Our penal statutes provifiethat reaorda are to be kept lntaot end that the alteritp of **tbe** rkaords without outhorlty of law 16 6 artnina offense **(F. 0.**  **19e6, Art.**  UOZ); and the atatute furtherdeolares that the altering of reoordrs or oertiiloatea of reoords to be a forgery (Y. C., lB85,Art. 1006). However, Vital ~tstlatlo Statutes (I?ul* 51-a of Artl016 4477) authorize amendments to woertlfloate o? birth or death, after ita soceptanoo for raglstretlonW. **But in**  **doing SO,**  the reslstrar should not Interpolate anythlnF not in the iustrumuntrecorded et the time of the orl&ml moor&. Tbe

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goaorebla t?.**A.** Davis, Page S



### amendmod of the moor& 

### shouldnot be ma& by oresurea 

### and ~terlineationsupon the oertlfioaten, bat by 

### annmxlngtIw Smendmmt. that is the oourt jud@mmt. to the orlp5,nel oertiri0ete, -So that tba whole matter wlil appear. m C. J., 619 n. 23; MO n. 68). **(Rroorda,**

m, tbererore, answer roar first 

### quartlon9i'noa~ thet ;a, that the ohlld*a no* l houl& not be atrloken from the **birth** Sartlfloate and the new mm altt4n ia.



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### erl&ial o~rtlPioetoshould 

### be a oertlrladoopy of the oourt*S

### mder ohan&n(rtbrohlld*a ruma topqtherwith a atatmnmatin the SoUon~ or l inilar fOra

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### an orderwee laau~d’ **am;** RiaOorrnty, T4ra8, ohangFO

. *This l fataaent and 81oertirie6 o,opycb th4 oourt’a order la ettashed to the orklnal birth 

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### loateoi l.u oomplianaa

with thepurposeand ori%?01 rid , oourt 1x1said oauaer 

### *On this- &Y or 8 lV-* j ralRIl4d) Reglatrar.w Xn view of our ansu4r to Jroar 

### aeoond **qu48ti45, it**  

### lanot aaoeeaaryfor us 

### to anzswer your thirdqoSStlo& 

### Yoursvary truly