Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1859-01-15
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General Assembly, and by the authority of
the same, That it shall be the duty of all
Magistrates, Clergymen and others, who
perform marriage ceremony in South Caro-
lima, to keep a registry of all marriages eel
ebratcd by them, together with date, names,
uges, residence and patiyity of parties.
III. That it shall be the duty of all Ply
sicians and Midwives to keep registry of
ttendcdprofcssonnlly, which registry shall
show, in case of whitc births, the time and
place names aud residence of parents, sex
and name of child, (if it have tho l,tter,)
and whether born alive or dead; in case of
dcdths Of tcItitcs, the date, place and cause
of death, name, age, sex, whether singlcor
married, occwpation, residence aud nativity
of the deceased, with names and surnames
of parents F; in case of births dmi deatkS Of
SlaceS the same items, together with the
name of the owner, instead of name of de-
ceascd, and the names of parents.
III. That it shall be the duty of all Ply
sicians, Clcrgymen and AIdwivcs to dcliv-
cr to the Tax Collector of the District, in
which such births occur, while he is col
lecting taxes in every year, the said regis
tries, or copies of them, embracing the pc
riod of Que year, ending on the thirty first
day of December preceding.
Nv. That it shall be the duty of each
Tax Collector, while attending to the other
business of his Office, to ascertain, number
and record, in the order in Which they are
received Gin blank books to be furnished
him for that purpose y all the births, mar
ragcs and deaths, which have occurred in
the District during the year preceding the
first day of january previous, with all the
items rs inserted in the registries above
named lie shall make strict inquiry Of
individuals and heads of families, and also
make use of the rcgistrics of Physicians
above named, in order to obtain the correct
information and complete his lists; after
completion of suid lists, the Tax Collector
shall make out and attach thereto a com
plctc alphabetical index of the same, and
he shall return, on oath, the books contain
ing said records and index to the Comptrol-
Ter General ut the time when he makes his
general tax returns.
V. That the Tax Collectors shall be en-
titled to retain, out of the taxes collected
by them, five cents for collecting, record
ing and inacxinga complete return of each
birth, death and marriage, required hy this
Act.
VI. That any citizen refusing to give
the necessary information, and any Tax
Collector, Clergyman. Physician, Magis-
trate or Midwife, refusing to comply with
the acquisitions of this Act, shall be fined
for each offence ten dollars, which fine shall
be recovered by any person who shall sue
before Magistrate for the same, onc-half
thereof to the use of the said complainant,
and the other half to the State.
VII. That it shall be the duty of the
Governor to appoint Registrar, under
whose order the necessary registry blanks
and books, together with such printed in
structions as he may deem proper, shall be
prepared and furnished, at the expense of
the State, to the different Tax Collectors.
1t shall be the duty Of the Registrar also
to receive from the respective offices of tho
Comptroller General, in Charleston and Co.
lumbia, the returns of the Tax Collectors,
and to prepare report thcrefrom, contain
ing tabular statements, which shall show,
in condensed form, the information re-
quirod to be preserved, keeping the statis-
tics of each District separate, togcthcr.with
practical observations upon said tables, and
to cause one thousand copies of said report
to be printed in pamphlet form, ON or be-
fore the fourth Monday in November in
every year, flinga copy in each Comptrol-
lcr's office, and delivering to each Tax Col.
lector copy nlso.
VIII. That tic salary of tie Registrar
shall be five hundred dollars per annum, for
the services of himself aud such Clerks us
he NAV IND nCct.ssuYx
lX.. That it shall be the duty of tho
Registrar also to return the registry books
to tho Comptroller after said reports print.
ed, and the Comptroller slpll haye those oS
each year bound together in volumes, tobe
preserved thoreafter in his Office for further
reference.
X. That duly certified copy of any re,
turn otbirth, death or marriage, given by
the Comptroller or his Deputy, shall here
after be admitted and received in allCourts
of this State as pyinta tacic evidence of
any such birth, death or marriage, record
ed or so certified For each certificate of
birth, death or marriage, the Comlptroller
shall be entitled to a fee of 81, to be paid
by the party applying forit.
~ An Act ssY
10 increase tho Compensation of Grand and
Petit Jurors.
L. BE itcnactcd by the Senate and House
OF Representatives, now met and sitting In
General Assembly, and by the authority Of
the same That hereaftaT overu, Iva nd ana