Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1852-11-18
No 5.

which indexes marriages, births, and deaths,
respectively shall be kept in separate books.
opposite To each name in the said index shall
be fixed not only the reference to the record,
but the day of the month and year in which
any marriage may have been contracted, or
birth or death may have occurred, as the case
may be.
Section II. That in order 10 secure uni
formity, precision, and greater despatch in
the aforesaid registration, .hc said hooks shall
contain (upon each page of the same, and
along the margin al the side Of the said page)
printed titles, duly numbered, opposite 10
which shall be left blanks or spaces. IN which
entries shall be made, corresponding TO the
particular subject TO each of the said titles;
the said titles IN the books for registering
marriages shall be printed and arranged in
the foii"wing words and ORDER, TO wit: (See
Jcrn-)
At the bottom Of each page in each of said
bOuks there shall be left u blank for the re-
gistry OF any fact which any act or acts of
assembly hereafter enacted may require shall
tie reg IstereJ, aud all Interlfneutions or era
sures shall 1T the time be noted by the regis
ter.
/ Section 13. That the said register, with
the exceptions hereinafter named, shall re-
ceIve, provided he comply with the provisions
OF this act, for registering any marriage, birth
or death, the sum OF ten cents. which shall
be paid to him, on his demand, by the treasur-
er OF the proper county, except for registering
any marriage contracted, or any birth or death
happening, previously To the year one thous-
and eight hundred aud fi.ty-Une, in Which
case he shall receive twenty-five cents, To be
~ rx9 Ia
III winch the testimony is reduced TO writing
and length twenty-five cents; inr sending up
the record upon an appeal, fifty cents; for
granting certified copy of the tul record of
any marriage, birth, Or death, fifty cts. which
shall also be paid by the party; he shall make
no charge Tor administering an oath or alfir-
nation, nCr demand fee trom any person so
registering; the register for the cTy and conn
u Ot Philadelphia shall receive but six cents
tor making any registry as aforesaid, which
siIal be paid by the county treasurer as aiore-
SaId; all emOIuneuts arising from the regis
tratlon, except the amount paid by the sever
al counties, which shall exceed the sum of
one thDnsand dollars, shall be paid into the
State treasury; IN or;!er the more efiectually
to guard against INJURY tIom the loss by FIRE,
or otherwise, of the records of any county,
and for other purposes. it shall be the duty of
each register, under the penalty of twenty
dollars for every neglect, recoverable as afore-
said, in each of the counties sem-annually,
between the fifteenth and twentieth day of
January and July in each year to transmit a
copy OF the record of marriages, births, and
J deaths, before specified, with a copy of the
index. duly certified by him, to the Secretary
OF the Commonwealth, who shall file the same
in his Office, and annually transmit to the Le-
gslature an abstract OF the number of mar
rlages, births, and deaths which have occurred
IN each county in the State during each
year next preceding the first day of January,
and for which purpose the said Secretary
: shall furnish, at the cost of the Common
wealth, each of the said registers with prop
er blanks prepared IN the form required by
the thirteenth section of this act, and shall
! also furnish 10 each of the said registers, at
, the cost of the Commonwealth, the blank
, books and indexes required by the first or any
other section OF this act, and also, at the same
time, transmit a printed copy Of this act.
f which shall be bound with said blank book,
and such instructions on the subject of the
, law as he may see fit to prepare, and gener-
; ally to do whatever may De required to car
,
, SECTION IA. That every clergyman, Justice
Of the peace, physician, sexton, or underta-
ker, whose duty It is to make any return un-
der this act, shall, on or before the first day
, of October next, return his name and resi-
, dence TO the register OF the county in which
be may reside, who shall record the said re-
turn in book to be kept for the purpose, To
be provided at the expense of the county, and
snch person shall notify the register of his re-
mova to any other place i'll or out of said
county, within thirty days after such reno
val, except where he may cease TO act in
; professional or official capacity.
> SECTION ID. That all acts or parts Of acts
Inconsistent herewith, or supplied as ufore-
said, are hereby repealed.
JOHN CESSNA,
Speaker Of the House Of Representatives
: BENJAMIN MATTHIAS,
, Speaker Of the Senate
We do certify that the bill entitled "An
Act to provide for registration of marriages,
births, and deaths" was presented to the Gov
ernor on the fourteenth day of April, one
, thousand eight hundred and fity-one, being
e within ten days of the close of the last session
b, of the Legislature, and not hlvin. been ''sent
! back within three days of the meeting OF
e the present General Assembly, wherefore It
$ has, agrecatly TO the Constitution Cf this
e Commonwealth, become law in like man-
$ ner as ii he had signed it.
7 WILLIAM JACK
n Clerk Of the House of Representatives..
;, JOHN NJ. SULLIVAN,
Clerk of the Senate.