The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-12-02 00:00:00

lIIIITIIS, MARRIAGEq, AND D'EATIIS.

NoTTCR FutrOQUEO BY THE REGISTRAR GENERAT., 1,740F.11 THE
P.L0V1.419N3 OF THE ACT FOR RRGFSTERING BIRTHS I)RATfIS~

ANI) NI Itl2l 417".‘, iv ENGT,4ND.
Arts required to be dme after the Ist day of March, 1837, in a

eqxot of BIRTH:
The father or mother of any child born after the first day of
March, 1537, or th 4 occupier* of an vison se or tenement in which.
R'lV such birth shall happen, -may give notice of such birth to the
registrar of the district in which the birth happens, within 42
days next art,- tti.- d iy of such birth; and the father or mother,
or (in case of their death, illness, absence: or inability) the
occupier of the houfie or tenement, must, within the said 42 days;
give infiirtnation to the registrar on'being requested so to do,
according t the best of his or her knowledge and belief of the
fallowing particulars, namely :
The day of birth of the child.]
The name' (if any is given).
The sex.
The name anti surname of the father.
The name an l maiden surname of the mother. ,
The rank, profession, trade, or calling of the father. -
The person u viii..such information must also state•and.sign
in the re tisterlis or her name, description, and residence: and
sinless this be done no register can he given in evidence. No
foe or pa yinent can be lawfully required of the person so giving
information respecting any birth; and the entry in the register,
which the registrar will thereupon be obliged to make, being
signed as at'. iresairi, will be evidence of bud) birth in any court
of law or equity.
No birth 111 .1 v be registered after 42 days from the time of such
birth, unless the father or guardian of the child, or some person
present at the birth, make a solemn declaration of the foregoing
particulars, according to the best of his or her knowledge and
belief, and the registrar shall register the birth accordingly, in
the presence of the superintendent registrar; and the person re-
quiring the birth to be so registered shall pay to the stiperin-
tendent registrar 2s. 6d , and to the registrar (unless the delay
shall have been occasioned by his default) ss.
No person shall knowingly cause any birth to be registered
otherwise than as hereinbefo:'e.mentioned after 42 days, under
a penalty of-50/.; and no person shall knowingly 'cause-any
birth to be registered at all after six calendar months from
the day of birth (except in the case of children born at sea)
under the like penalty.
No register of births made after six Calendar months from
the day of birth (except in the case of children born at sea) will
be received as legal evidence in aUy court of law or equity.

Acts required to be done after the Ist day of March, 1837, in all
cases al DEA TH.
Some person present at a death, or in attendance during the
last illness, or (►n case of the inability of such person) the occu-
pier,• or (if the occupier be the pprson that has theft) some
inmate of the house or tenement in which a death 'Watt have

haptiened, may, within five days after the- death; give notice
thereof to the registrar of the district, and must within eight
days give information to the said registrar, nn being required
to do so, according to the best of his or her knowledge or belief,
of.the following particulars, namely
The day of death.
The name and surname of the person %rho has died.
The sex.
The age.
The rank, profession, trade, or calling.
"The cause of death.
The person giving information must also state and sign in
the register his or her name, description, and residence; and
unless this be done, no register can he given in evidence. No
fee or payment can be lawfully required of the person so giving
information respecting any death; and the entry in the regis-
ter, which the registrar will thereupon be obliged to make,
being signed as aforesaid, will be evidence of such death in any
court of law or equity.
• Evert; person who shall bury or perform any funeral or any
religious service for the burial of any dead body, for which no
certificate shall have been made and delivered either by the re-
gistrar or (in case of inquest) by the coroner, and who shall
not within seven days give notice thereof to the registrar, will
forfeit £lO. And no certificate can be given (except by the
coroner when an inquest has been4d) unless the death has
been registered by the registrar of istrict. It is, therefore,
of the greatest importance that persons directed as above shall
Without delay give information respecting a death to the regis-
trar of the district within which the death has taken place, that
lie may register the same, and thereupon deliver a certificate
to the undertaker, or other person having charge of the funeral.
Ca unox.—Every person wilfully making or causing to be
made any false statement touching any of the particulars re-
quired to be known and registered for the purpose of such state-
ment being inserted in any register of birth, death, or marriage,
Will be subject to the same pains and penalties as if guilty of
per ury.
N.B. Persons failing to do that which is by an act of parlia-
ment enjoined are indictable for a misdemeanour, although no
Specific penalty is imposed by the act which they have so diso-
beyed.
Als required to he done by persons who may be desirous of so-
lemnizing All-4R111.4GE after the Ist day of March, 1837.
I. Persons desirous of solemnizing marriage according to the
rites and ceremonies of the Church of England may be so mar-
ried after publication of banns, or by licence, or by special
licence as heretofore; or they may be milled, (without pub-
lication or banns, or by licence, or by special license,) accord-
ing to the rites and ceremonies of the Church of England. on
production, of a certificate f•oin the superintendent registrar of
the district, to be obtained in the following manner, namely:—
One of the parties intending marriage must give notice under
his or her hand to the superintendent registrar of the district,
within which the.parties shall have dwelt for not less than seven
days then next preceding; or, if they dwell in different districts,
they must give the like notice to the superintendent registrar of
each district. The notice must be in the form of a schedule,
which the superintendent registrar wilt furnish on .being ap-
plied to, and must be filled up with the followiug particulars:—
The name and, surname of each of the parties.
Whether bachelor or widower, spinster or widow.
Their respective rank. profession, or calling.
Whether minors or of full age.
Their respective dwelling-places.
Wuether they have resided within the district more than one
calendar month, or if not, hoW long.
In what church or building the marriage is to be solemnized.
notice emit ue entered by the -superintendent
registrar- in a book called "the marriage notice-bunk," which
will be open at ail:reasonable times, without fee, to all persons
desirous ofinspectiug the saute.
The notice must be read by the superintendent registrar, or
by the clerk to the guardians, at three weekly meetings of the
guardians, or. if such meetings are not held weekly, at any
meeting of the guardians within twenty-one days from the day
of the notice being entered in. the marriage notice-book. And
after the expiration of twenty-one days after the entry of the
notice, if no impeeiment has been shown, the superintendent
registrar may be required to issue a certificate.
2. Persons (except Quakers and Jews) desirous of solemniz-
ing marriage not according to the rights and ceremonies of the
Church of England, may be married according to other rites
and cerrinonies, on production of a certificate obtained as
above-mentioned, in a registered place of worship, provided that
every such marriage shall be solemnized with open doors, be-
tween the hours of eight and twelve o'clock iu the forenoon, in
the presence of some registrar of the district in which such re-
gistered building is situate, and of two or more credible wit-
nesses; provided also that in some part of the ceremony, and
iii the presence of suck registrar and witnesses, each of the par-
ties shall declare as follows:

" I do solemnly declare that I know not of any lawful impe-
..slinaent-why 1, A. 8., may not be. joined in inatannonv to C.D."
• And each of the parties shall say to the other,
" I call upon these persons here present to witness that
A. 8., do take thee, C. 0., to be my lawful wedded [wife or
husband 1."..
Provided also that there be no lawful impediment to the mar-
riage of such parties. .. . . .
Persons tn,.y be married after seven days from the entry of the
notice, if by licence, and after twenty-one days without licence.
A licence may be granted by the superintendent registrar;` but
only for twirl-m.4e in a regiStered building within his district, or
iu his office; but before any licence can be granted by hini,Ame
"of the parties intending marriage iirust appear personally before
.him, and in case hashall not be the superintendent registrar to
.whom notice of such intended marriage was given, shall deliver
to hint the certificate of the superintendent registrar, or super-
intendent registrars, to whoa such notice shall have. been given ;
and such. part st shall make oath, or shall make his or her solemn
affirmation or-declarat ion. instead of taking an oath, that he or
she believelh that there is not any impediment of kindred or
alliance, or other lawful hindrance,
.to the said marriage, and
that one of the said parties bath for the space of n. days imme-
diately before the day
.of the grant of such licence, had his or
her usual place of abode within the district within which such
marriage is to be solemnised, and, where either of the parties
(not being a widower or widow,) shall be under the age of '2l
years, that the consent of the person or persons whose consent
to such marriage is- required by law, has beta obtained hither-
_to. or that there is no person having authority to give such con-
sent, as the case IllaV be.
3. Pers.ins objecting to be married either according to the
rites and ceremonies or the Church of England, nr in any such
registered building may, after notice and certificate as afore-
, said, solemnise marriage at the office of the superintendent re-
gistrar, with open doors, between the hours of eight and twelve
in the fOrenoon, in the presence of the superintendent registrar
and some registrar of the district, and m the presence of-two
witnesses, making the decluration, and using the form of words
i
required n the case of marriage in a registered building.
Quakers miry c.mtriwt and solemnise marriage according to
the usage of their society, provided both parties are of that so-
ciety, add that notice shall have been given to the superinten-
dent registrar, and a certificate shall have been issued as before-
mentioned.

Jews may likowiSe contract and solemnise marriage accord-
ing to the usages of the Jewish religion under similar provi-
sions.

Every niarriage of which notice has been entered us afore-
said, must he solemnised within three calendar mouths lifter
such entry, or Ilia notice must he removed.
Every inarriaze solemnised after-the Ist of March, 1837, lin-
. der the provisions of this act for marriages in England, in any
other manner than as heretofore directed, will be null and void.
Be it also particularly observed, that if any valid marriage
shall be hail under the provisions of till act fur marriages in
England, by means of any wilfully false notice, certificate, or
declaration made by either party to such marriage, as to any
matter to which a notice, certificate, or declaration is therein
required, Ins Nlajesty's Attorney General or Solicitor General
may sue fur the forfeiture of all estate and interest in any pro-
,perty accruing to the offending party by such marriage ; and
the proceedings and the consequences will be the same us are
provided in the like case with regard to marriages by licence
before the passing of these acts.
• For the purposes of .this act the master or keeper of every gaol.
.prison, or hoOse of correction. or vrorklionie, hospital, or lumaie
esvlam, nr*lllic or charitable institution, shall beileenied the uecii.
pier thereof.
•

DRRADFIJI. FM!: AND LOS OF LIFE,—On Tuesday morn-
i.ig :shout half-pat three &dock, a destructive fire broke out in
Ito. house of Mr. Martin Bergani, tinman and brazier, Shoe-
loaker-row, Blackfri.irs, London, in which, we regret to state,
?qrs. Bergani perished. The fire was first perceived by the
vatchnien, tt ho instantly sprung their rattles. and knocked and
'mg at the door to arouse the inmates, who appear to hit VII
l,e:tt buried in sleep Mr. Bergani had gone to bed. ill the
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, tit. attic with his two children, at About ten o'clock on the
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.v!""' %tight. leaving his wife in the back parlour curling her
:lair. she w,,
s never seen afterwards anti it is conjectured she
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,Rniimrnet accident ca;,eti 'the fire by' nl.ii,ch. she
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..: ~./tearts is rapidly that i. ter.
.Ihe flames hail mounted up-
-e *IA Mr. Bergani with,,hiva.'
ise_th,,,escare h.'y
'w-Toßmible to eseape by the door,
..", . iy; t,,, „I! ~,,,,,,,, pers,,n3s.,..w. children and Mi. Kl'llq and N-
W ' infter Tra.4cipo. 40,er the ,',R,d, tto, traii-ili;or.
*IA: paling Mr.• 'SrAlinv. „ilina' °I
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27 'till 28' succeeded
letr4ted his trap.it-inr," alid re,•4;il-::
e`'tt.lc4,46:-..t2WiCea r t heni -who
' IA clothitig bey'otrcrwhlt thov had ris°,-7 r6.1:4‘,•'1'1 1"‘"C a're P 1 v
tonne 4utl rrotierty of Mr. Ber2sni ;;;",,n,.r,,:'i''e't with. ' The
Alr• King. besides flit destruction or Ili,. rtiri4'ell de"r`,'_!'"ll-
- ha list
great quantity ei new 11111111416 awl, other ex • ' * st a
expensive wurks .l.ofindw4 papir.