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London, England, 1836-10-17 00:00:00

AGRICULTURAL COMMITTEE OF 1836.
This day was Published,
A LETTER to H. HANDLEY, Esq., M.P.,
(a Member of the late Committee on Agricultural Dis-
tress in the House of Commons), on the Proceedings of that Com-
mittee, and in Answer to Mr. SHAW LEFEVRE'S Pamphlet.
BY E. S. CAYLEY, ESQUIRE, M.P.,
A Member of the Committee.
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POOR LAWS.

REGISTRATION OF BIRTHS, DEATHS, AND

MARRIA GES'.

The following circular was delivered to the clerks of the
Unions under the new poor laws on Saturday :
General Register Office, Oct. 14, 1836.
Sir,-1 request you to inform me whether you, being a
Clerk to the Board of Guardians, and being empowered,
under the provisions of the Act of the 6th and 7th of
William IV., cap. 86, intituled " An Act for Registering
Births, Deaths, and Marriages in England," to accept the
office of Superintendent Registrar, if you shall think fit,
and have such qualifications as the Register-General may,
by any general rule, declare to,be necessary, do accept such
office as aforesaid, and have such qualifications as I have,
by a general rule, made and signed by me on the 10th
day of October, in this present year, 1836, declared to be
necessary.

I also request you to inform the guardians that, in the
event of your refusal or disqualification, they shall, under
the provisions of the aforesaid Act, appoint a person with
such qualifications as aforesaid to be Superintendent Re-
gistrar.

And inasmuch as the guardians have formed or di-
vided the union, or parish, or place of which they are
guardians, into a registrar's district or districts, and I
have approved of the same, and have directed that such
arrangement or division shall be published, the guar-
dians are now empowered, under the provisions of the
aforesaid Act, to appoint " a person with such quali-
fications as the Registrar-General may by any general
rule declare to be necessary, to be registrar of births and
deaths within such district." I must, therefore, direct
the attention of the --guardians—to- those qualifications for
persons appointed to the office of registrar, which I have,
by a general rule, made and signed by me on the 10th of
October, in this present year, 1836, declared to be neces-
sary ; and also to the 16th section of the aforesaid Act, in
which it is enacted, " that every registrar and deputy-regis-
trar shall dwell within the district of which he is registrar
or deputy-registrar, and shall cause his name, with the ad-
dition of registrar or deputy-registrar (as the case may be),
for the district for which he shall be so appointed, to bo
placed in some conspicuous place on or near the outer door
of his own dwelling-house."
I trust that the guardians, in exercising under the fore-
going limitations the power of appointment which has thus
devolved upon them, will have carefully considered the du-
ties to be performed by each person to whom they may so
confide the office of registrar ; duties which they will see
set forth in the Act for Registering Births, Deaths, and
Marriages, in England, and in the schedules to which it re-
fers. And .I confidently hope that, impressed with the re-
sponsibility attaching to the exercise of that power with
which they are so invested for the benefit of the public,
they will select men not only respected for regularity of
conduct, but possessing also such qualities of intelligence,
vigilance, industry, and accuracy, and such advantages in
point of education, as will enable them, without difficulty, to
perform the duties of registrar in a satisfactory manner.
And inasmuch as it is enacted in the aforesaid Act that
" every registrar and superintendant-registrar shall hold
this office during the pleasure of the registrar-general," I
request that the guardians will transmit to me the name of
every person qualified as aforesaid, whom they appoint to
be registrar, and a separate notification of any person qua-
lified as aforesaid whom, in the event of your refusal or dis-
qualification, they may appoint to be superintendent-re-
gistrar.
I further inform you (and request you to inform the
guardians) that in due time instructions will be issued to
all registrars and superintendent-registrars, touching those
duties which in such capacities they will respectively be
called upon to perform. I trust that these instructions
will be sufficiently explicit to preclude the necessity of fur-
ther explanations ; but if it shall appear, on the receipt of
these instructions, that any unforeseen ease is not provided
for, or any difficulty not sufficiently explained, to the satis-
faction of any person to whom they may have been sent,
such person may apply for a further explanation, and in so
far as it may be possible, it will be readily afforded.
I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
T. H. LISTER.

His Majesty has subscribed 50/. to the fund for re-
pairing the monument of Shakspeare, at Stratford-upon-
Avon,