The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1856-05-28

THOMAS H. FORD.
President Of the Senate.
ApGl 9th, 1856.
mo. 72.1 AN ACT
To provide for the Registration of Births, Mar
riages and Deaths, in Ohio.
SECTION l.. Be 1T enacted by the Gen
cTak assembly Of the State Of Ohio, That
it shall be the duty of all clergymen,
or other persons, VINO shall hereafter
celebrate or perform the marriage
ceremony within this State, to keep
a registry of all marriages celebra,
ted By them, showing the names, ages,
residence and place of birth of the per-
soDs married, whether they were single
or widowed, the time of the marriage,
and the names of their parents.
SECTION 2. 1t shall be the duty of
all physicians, surgeons and midwives, to
keep a registry of all the births and
deaths at which they have professionally
attended, showing in eases of birth, the
name of the father aud maiden name of
the mother, and their residence, the sex
and color of the child, together with its
name, if it shall receive one, and wheth-
er born alive or dead. Such registry
shall show, in ease of death-the time,
place and cause of death the name, age,
sex, color and condition las to whether
single or married or widowed), the name
and surname of the parents, the occu-
patton, the residence and the place of
birth of the deceased. When two or
more physicians, surgeons O. m~idwives,
may have attended professionally at any
birth or death, that physician, surgeon,
or midwife, who is oldest, in attendance,
shall make the registry.
SECTION 3. 1t shall be the duty of
the physicians, clergymen, surgeons and
nIidwIves, above pamed, to deposit in
the county clerks Office, of the various
counties in Which such births, marriages
and deaths occur, on or before the 18th
day of March, in every year, a copy of
said registry, embracing the period of
one year, ending on the first day of
March, last preceding the time of de-
post and the clerk shall deliver the
same to the assessor Of the several town
ships in each county, at the same time
that the auditor of the county delivers
Instructions and blanks to the assessor.
SECTION f.. 1t shall be the duty of
the assessors, while making their lists OF
taxable property, to ascertain and re-
cord, IN a list separate from the list of
taxable property, all the births, mar
riages and deaths, which shall have &C.
CURED within their respective townships,
in the twelve months, eadiDg on the first
day of March, last preceding the time
of assessment, with all the items of time,
place, &c, hereinbefore directed, to be
Inserted in the regis'ries, as provided in
sections one and two of this act. They
shall make strict inquiries of all heads
of families, and shall use the registries
of clcrgymen, physicians, surgeons and
midwiyes, hereinbefore named, in order
to obtain correctly the information here
in required. They shall return said lists
of births, marriages and deaths. with
the registries aforesaid, to the clerks of
the courts of common pleas, at the same
time they return the lists of taxable
property. The clerks shall copy said
lists in such form as the Secretary of
State may ldirect, and transmit such
copy to the Secretary of State, on or be.
fore the first day of June in each year.
The clerks shall receive for their servi-
ces such compensation as the county
commissioners shall think just.
SECTION 5. 1t shall be the duty of
the Secretary of State, from all the lists
of the births, marriages and deaths, so
transmitted to him, to prepare tabular
statements, showing in a condensed form,
the information herein required to be
preserved : keeping the statistics of
each county separate, and to cause two
thousand C pies of tue same to be print
ed In pamphlet form, on or before the
first day of January in each year, of
which copies, ten shall be transmitted
to the clerk of each county for exchange
and distribution, at his discretion, and
the residue shall be disposed of as the
general assembly shall from time to time
direct; the county clerk, in each and ev-
cry county, shall preserve carefully, one
copyin his office. The Secretary of State
shall prepare and cause to be printed,
suitable blanks and instructions for the
use of assessors, clergymen, physicians,
surgeons and midwives, which he shall
transmit to the several county auditors,
to be by them delivered to the assessors.
SECTION 6. To enable the assessors
to obtain full and correct information
touching the facts herein required to be
ascertained, they shall have full power
to swear and interogate u person, in
their respective townships, for this pur-
pose and it shall be the duty of all
such persons, when thereto required by
the assessor, with or without oath, to
give him, truly and fully, all the infor-
nation which he or she may possess,
touching said facts,
SECTION T. The several county clerks
shall forever carefully preserve, the lists
of births, marriages and deaths afore-
said, and the registries of clergymen,
&C., herein required to be returned to
them, for the use of the public, and
which shall always be open to public in
spectior.
SECTION g.. The saidlists of births, mar
riages and deaths, returned to the clerks
of the county courts, by the assessor as
also the original tabular record herein re-
quired to be made by the clerk afore-
said, or a duly certified copy of any birth,
marriage or death, from either CT them,
given and certified by the said clerks,
shall hereafter be admitted and received
in all courts of this State, as pGyma facie
evidence of any such birth, marriage or