The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1851-06-19

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roll in their appropriate spheres, wrapping
themselves daily and nightly around each 9th
er, and are broken only when driven agains
the rock or the shore. The wisdom of ou
farhers rising from the mighty deep of the
spectral past, beseeches us TO avoid the
breakers which they carefully and safely
stunned Very truly,
SAMUEL W. BLACK.
New Law for the Registration of Births
Marriages and Deaths.
Whereas, From the death of witnesses
and from other causes, it has often been
found difficult TO prove the marriages, birth
or deatk OF persons, whereby the rights OF
! many persons have been sacrificed, and
great wrongs have been done.
| And whereas, important truths deeply az
fecting the physical welfare of mankind,
are TO be drawn from the number of marri-
ages, births, or deaths, that during a term Of
years may be contracted, or may occur
within the limits of an extensive Common.
wealth.
SECTION /. BE il enacted by the Senate and
House Of Representatives. Of the Commonwealth
of Pennsylvania in General Assembly met, and
ii is hereby enacted ty the authority Of the same,
That from and after the first day of July
next, each register of wills in the several
counties of this State, shall be supplied with
separate books, in which he shall register.
in the manner hereinafter directed, the mar
riages which may have been contracted,
and the births and deaths which may have
| occurred within his county.
SECTOR g. That it shall be the duty OF
every clergyman, alderman, justice Of the
peace, clerk or keeper of the records of the
religious society of Friends, whom any
marriage may hereafter be solemnized or
! contracted, to return the same under oath or
affirma alton in the form of certificate, duly
signed by the person SO certifying 10 the re-
gister of the county in which such marriage
shall have been solemnized or contracted,
which said record and certificate shall set
forth the full name of the husband, his oc-
cupatIon and the name of his place of birth,
and residence, The full name of the wife
previou sly TO the said marriage, the names
OF the parents of said husband, and of the
parents of said wife, also the colors of the
| parties, and the time and place wefe such
marriage was contracted, and if pronounced
oy any clergyman or orher person as a!ore-
said. the place of residence OF such person
SECTION 3. 1t shall be the duty of every
| physician, midwife, or other person under
whose care birth shall hereafter take place
TO make at once record of such birth in a
book TO be kept for the purpose, and TO re-
turn the same duly signed by him or her in
the form oil certificate, TO the register of
the county in which such birth shall have
taken place, in the ma 1ner, and within The
period directed by the second section of this
act, which said record and certificate shall
set forth the full name of such child, if any
name should have been conferred, its sex,
color, and whether born quick, or dead, the
full name as well as occupation Of its pa
rent OF parents and for better identifiction,
the full name previously TO the marriage of
the mother of such child, the day, hour,
and place in, and at which such birth oc-
cured, and any circumstances connected
with such birth that may be deemed of in-
terest. In case such birth shall have occur
red without the superintendent of any
person, and should no physician or other
person be in attendance upon the parent i'm.
mediately thereafter, il shall then become
the duty of the parent or parents of the
child, to return the same to the register in
the manner, form, and within the period
above required.
SECTION a. Eyryphysician, surgeon, or
other person, wfo(hall hereafter be in at
tendance a, the period of the death of any
individual dying within this State, shall
make at once a record of such death in a
book to be kept by him for the purpose, and
shall return the same duly signed in the form
of certificate, 10 the register of the county
in which such individual may have resided
ct the time of death, in the manner and
within the period directed in the second
section OF this act, which record and cerlif-
cate shall snt forth the full name, sex, and
color Of the person deceased, and his or her
age, as nearly as the same Can be ascertain
ed also the rame of his or her parents, the
occupation, place of birth Germ of residence
if sojourner or foreigner,) the period, place
and cause Of death, name OF burial ground
in which inferred, and If married at the
time of death, the name of The husband o,
wife, as the case may be. And no person
having the charge as sexton, or otherwise
of any vault or burying ground, shall inter
or permit or cause 10 be inferred the dead
body Of any person in such vault or buryne
grdund, without first procuring copy o
such record duly certified as aforesaid BY
the person who made it; and, further, nc
sexton or other person shall inter within lhi'
I State, the dead body of any person who
may have died beyond its limits unless tht
same, having been previously buried with
out the State, shall be removed here for re
interment without first procuring certificate
IN the form above set forth, which certifi
cate in either case as aforesaid whom obtain
ed he shall sign, and before the expiration
of thirty days from the time at which h,