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.ams time hat the Auditor Of the county os-
vsrs Instructions and blanks 70 such assessor.
sEortoS4. Il shall Be the duty Of the ai-
SCISSORS, while making thsir lisIs Of laxabls
property, TO ascertain aud record. Ia = list sep
arate from The list Of taxable property. all the
births. marriages and deaths, which shall have
occurred within their respective townships. IN
the twelve months, ending on The first day OF
March, last preceding the time Of assessment.
with all the items Of time, place, &c, hereinbs-
fore directed, 10 be inserted in the registries,
As proyided in sections one and two Of this act.
They shall make strict inquiry Of all htods Of
families, and shall use the registres Of clergy
men, physicians, surgeons, and midWiVeS'
bereiubefore named iu order TO obtain correctly
the information herein 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
that they return their lists Of taxable property.
The clerks shall copy said lists in such form
as the Secretary of State may direct, and
transmit such copy 10 the Secretary Of State,
on or before the first day Of June in each year.
The clerks shall receive for their services such
compensation as the county commissioners shall
think Just.
SECTION 5. 1t shall be the duty Of Secrsta-
ry Of State, from all tbs lists Of births, marri-
ages and deaths SO transmitted to him. to pre-.
pare tabular statements, showing in cOndeu7
sed form. the information herein required to be
preseryed-keeping the statistics ofeaeh county
separate, and to cause two thousand copies Of
the same to be printed in pamphlet form, on or
the first day Of January in every 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
every county, shall preserve cTefully. one
COPY in his ofi,e. The Secretary Of State
shall prepare aud cause to be printed, siitable
blanks an instructions for the use Of asses
sOrs, Olergamsn, physicians, surgeons aaa
midwives, which he shall transmit to the sew.
eral county auditors, to be by them delivered
to the assessors.
SECTION 6. To enable the ssses Ors to OBJ
tain full and correct inform ,tiOn touching the
facts herein required to bs ascertained, they
shall have full power to swear AMI interrng'ts
Aay person. in their respective townships, for
this purpose; aul it shall b. the duty Of all such
persons, when thereto required by the Asses
sOr, with or without oath, to give him, truly
and fully, all the inform Ition which he or she
may possess, touching any Of said facts.
SECTION 7. The several c,unty clerks shall
forever carefully preserve, the lists of births.
marriages an deaths aforesaid. and the regis.
tries Of clerg ymen, &C., herein required to bs
returned to them, for the use Of the public and
which shall always be open for public inspec-
ton.
SECTION 8. The said lists ofbirths, marri-
ages and deaths, returned to the clerks Of the
county courts, by the assessors, As also the
original tabular record herein required TO be
made BY the clerk aforesaid. or duly certi-
fed copy of any birth, marriage, or death,
from either Of them, given and certified by the
said clerks, shall hereafter be admitted and re-
ceved 10 all courts in this State, aS prime faca
evidence Of any such birth, marriage, or death,
therein recorded or so certified.
SECTION 8. Any person failing, or refusing
10 discharge and perform, any of the acts or
duties herein imposed and required TO be done,
shall, for every such failure, be fned in sum
not less than ive nor more than twenty dol
lars, to be recovered by action before any tri-
bunal having jurisdiction thereof, or by lndict,
menL in the court of common pleas. for the use
of schools. ip Ihe township in which the Offenso
is committed.
n. II. VAN WORRIES.
Speaker Of the House of Representatives.,
THOS. H. FORD.
President of the Senate.
April 8. 1856.
hereby certify that have read and somps.
red the proof Of the foregoing. laws and thA
they are correctly printed from the copy csr-
tilted by the Secretary Of State.
il. BLACKBURN.
Aud. Carroll Co.
LAUGH & GROW FAT.-We have upon our
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