Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1856-05-23

courts Of common pleas, at the same time
that they return their list of taxable proper
ty. The clerks shall copy said lists IN such
form as the secretary Of State may direct
and transmit such copy to the Secretary of
State, on or before the first day Of June ia
each year. The clerks Shall receive for
their service such compensation as the eoun-
4 ty commissioners shall think Just.
SEC. 5. 1t shall be tie duty Of the
Secretary Of State, from all the list Of births
and marriages and deaths so transmitted to
him, TO prepare tabular statements, showing
in condensed form, the information here
in required to be preserved-keeping the
statistics Of each county separate, and to
cause two thousand copies of the same to
be printed in pamphlet form, on or before
the first day Of January in every year, of
which copies, ten shall be transmitted to
the clerk of each county for exchange aud
distribution at his discretion and the residue,
shall be disposed Of as the general assem-
| bly, shall from time to time direct, and the
county clerk in each and every enanty, Shall
preserve carefully one copy in his ofFice.-
The Secretary of State shall prepare and
cause to be printed, suitable blanks and IN
struetions for the use of assessors, clergy
men, physicians, surgeons and midwives,
which he shall transmit to the several coun-
ty auditors, to be by them delivered to the
assessors.
SEC. 9. To enable the assessors to OBJ
tain full and correct information touching
the facts herein required to be ascertained,
they shall have full power to swear and IN
terrogate any persons, in their respective
townships, for this purpose; and it shall be
the duty of all such persons, when thereto
required by the assessor with OF without
oath, to give him truly and fully, all the
information which he or she may possess,
touching any of said facts. ~
SEC. 7. The several county clerks shall
forever carefully preserve, the lists Of births,
marriages and deaths aforesaid, and the
registries of clergvmen, DE-, herein requir-
ted to be returned to them, for the use Of
the public, and which shall be open to pub
lie inspection.
SEC. 8. The said lists of births, marri-
ages, and deaths, returned to the clerks Of
the county courts, by the assessors, as also
the original tabular record herein required
t. b. male by the theolerk shall hereafter be
admitted and received aforesaid, or 8 duly
certified copy of any birth, marriage or
death, from either of them given and GER
titled by said clerks in all courts in this
State, as prima faeia evidence Of any such
birth, marriage, or death, therein recorded
or so certified.
SEC. 9. Any person falling, or refusing
to discharge and perform, any Of the acts
or duties herein imposed and rquired to be
done, shall for ever such failure, be fined in
in a sum not less than five nor more than
twenty dollars, to be recovered by action
before any tribunal having jurisdiction there
of, or by indictment in the court of COM
mon pleas for the use of schools, In the
township in which the offense is committed.
N. H. VAN WORRIES,
Speaker of the House of Representatives.,
THOS. H. FORD,
President Of The Senate.
April s, 1856.