Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1851-06-05
New Registration Law.

Now EteStstruthOu AHW.
During the late session of the Legislature
a Law was enacted, making it the duty of the
Register of each county, from and after the
! first of July next, to provide books for the re-
gistration Of the marriages which shall be
contracted and the births and deaths which
shall occur within his county. The objects
of the law are to perpetuate evidence of the
marriage, birth and death of inhabitants OF
! this Commonwealth, and to gather important
sanitary facts affecting the physical welfare
of the human race. Its main provisions are
as sfollows:-"Clergymen aldermen, justices,
and all persons by or before whom any mar
riage may hereafter be contracted, are requir-
ed to certify the same to the Register Of the
county in which they reside, giving the full
name of the husband, his occupation, birth
place, and residence, the full maiden name of
the wife, the names of their respective pa
rents, the color of the parties and the time
and place of marriage. Physicians, mid
wives, or other persons in whose care birth
shall take place, shall make a return thereof
to the Register as aforesaid, setting forth the
sex, color, and name Gf any of the child,
whether born quick or dead, the full name
and occupation of the parents, the maiden
name of the mother, and the day, hour and
place of such birth. Physicians, surgeons, or
other persons, in attendance at the death of
any individual, shall make a return of the
same to the Register as aforesaid, giving the
full name, sex, color, age, occupation, place
of birth, time, place and cause of death ofsuch
individual, with the names of his or her pa
rents the burial ground in which inferred,
and if married, the name of husband or wife,
as the case may be. Sections and other per
sons having charge of vaults or burial grounds,
are forbidden to enter or permit the interment
of any dead body, without procuring copy
of such record duly certified. Marriages,
births or deaths, which have occurred previ-
Gus to the passage of this act, or marriages,
births or deaths of persons out of this State,
children of citizens of this State, may be reg
istered in the same manner as aforesaid, up
on producing satisfactory proofs of all the re-
quisite facts to the Register. No letters OF
or letters testamentary upon
the estate Of any deceased person, shall be
granted, until the death of such persons is du- /
y certified as provided by this act; and no
appointment of guardians to the person or es-
tate of any minor, shall be valid, until the
birth Of said minor, and death of his or her
parents, shall have duly certified according
to the provisions of this act. The Registers
books, or a certificate from the same duly au-
.henticated under seal, shall be received in
Ill the Courts of this State as prima facie ev-
dence of any marriage, birth or death The
Register of each county shall receive ten
cents for registering each marriage, birth and
leath, to be paid out of the county treasury;
hree cents for examining each witness, %
;ents when the testimony is reduced to writ
ng; so cents for sending up the record on an
ppeal; and so cents for granting certified
opy of the record. The Registers shall
ransmit semi-annually, in January and July
f each year, to the Secretary of the Com
copies of their several records of
marriages, births, and deaths, which shall be
led in the Secretary's Office and he shall
nnually lay before the Legislature an alb
tract of the whole number of marriages,
lrths and deaths which have occurred in the ;
tate during the proceeding year."