The Portland daily press., 1895-02-28

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| comes within his power and when the state
registrar knows, or has coed reason TO DelleVe,
that any penalty or forfeiture under this act
| has been incurred, he shall at his discretion
| forwith give notice thereof, in writing, to the
county attorney of the county in which said
penalty or forfeiture has occurred, which no.
| tice shall state as near as may be, the time of
such neglect, the name of the Lerson or per-
sons mourning the penalty or forfeiture, and
such other facts relating to the default OF duty
| as said state registrar may have been able TO
| learn, and upon receipt of such notice the
county attorney shall prosecute the defaulting
person or persons
| SECT. g. Section seventeen of said chapter is
| amended so that said section as amended, shall
read as follows;
| SECT. II. The clerk of each city or town
snail be paid by such city or town for recelv-
ing, recording and returning the facts required
| TO be recorded by this act, the sum of fifteen
cents for each birth, marriage and death, and
| for each birth or death duly reported to the
town clerk, PHYSICIANS shall receive twenty
| five cents from the town in which the birth or
death has occurred. 1t shall be the duty of the
town clerk to enforce, so far as COMES within
| his power, sections three, FOUR six, seven and
ten, of chapter one hundred and eighteen, laws
of eighteen hundred and ninety-on and when
| he knows of any birth, marriage or death,
which is not reported to his office in accord
ance with the provisions of said chapter, he
| shall collect, so far as he is able to do SO, the
| facts called for in the blank certificates of
| BIRTH of marriage, or of death, as furnished by
| the state registrar. and shall record them as
1s prescribed in said chapter one hundred and
| eighteen; and for every birth, marriage or
death thus collected and recorded he shall re.
ceiVe from the town the sum of twenty five
cents
SECT Z. Said chapter is further amended by
adding thereto the following sections:
SECT 10. physician v 10 has attended
person during his last illness shall, when re.
| quesied, forthwith furnish for registration
certificate stating, to the best of his knowledge
and belief, the name Of the deceased his age,
the disease OF which he died, and the date of
his death; and physician or midwife who has
attended at the birth OF Il child dying immedi-
ately thereafter, OF at the birth of a stillborn
child, shall, when requested, forthwith furnish
for registration certificate stating to the best
of his knowledge and belief, the fact that such
child died after birth or was born dead. &c
shall be a misdemeanor for any person to
make q false return in regard to any birth or
death.
SECT. %. When birth, marriage or death
occurs IN an unincorporated place, it shall be reI
ported to the town CLERK in the town which id
nearest to the place ut which the birth, MARI
rage OF death took place, and shall be re-
corded by the town clerk 10 whom the report
IS made; and all such reports and records
shall be made and recorded and returned to
the state registrar as is provided in chapter
one hundred and eighteen laws of eighteen
hundred and niuety-one.
SECT, p. The clerk of each town shall, on
the first Monday of each month, make u certi-
fled copy of the record of all deaths and births
recorded in the books of said town during the
previous month, whenever the deceased per-
son, or the parents of the child born were res.
ldent in any other town in this state at the
time of said death or birth, or whenever they
were recently resilient IN any Oller tOWD, OF
whenever the remains of any deceased person
have been carried to any other town for burr
1al; and shall transmit said certified copies to
the clerk of the town in which said deceased
person OF parents were resident at or near the
time of said birth or death, or to which the reA
mains of such deceasedp person have been car
fied for BURIAL stating IN addition the name
OF the street and the number of the house. if
any, where such deceased person or parents
so resided, whenever the same can be ascer-
tanned; and the clerk so receiving such cert,
lied copies shall record the same in the books
kept for recording deaths or births.
such certified copies shall be made upon
blanks to be furnished for that purpose by the
registrar of vital statistics
SECT. %. No body of a deceased person
whose death was caused by cholera, yellow
fever, diptheria, scarlet fever, typhus fever,
typhoid fever, small poX or other presidential
disease, shall be removed from place to place
in this state by any railroad steamboat or
other common carrier unless there shall be at
tached to the outer case in which said body is
inclosed, a certificate from the board of health
where such person died, stating the disease
causing such death, and that necessary precau-
|, tons against infection satisfactory 10 said
board have been observed. II is further pro-
i vided, that certificate of death giving heart
| failure as the only cause of death shall not be
) deemed sufficient upon which to issue burial
permit, and such certificate must be returned
! to the physician who made it for the proper
: correction and definition 1t the body OF a de-
! ceased person is brought into this state from
! without for burial, and if it is accompanied
: by permit issued by the legally constituted
, authorities OF the state from which it was
brought, such permit shall be received as suf-
: fcient authority upon which the clerk of the
; town in which said body is to be buried shall
issue permit for burial; but if it is not ac-
! companied by such permit, then the person or
persons in charge of it shall apply for burial
! permit to the clerk of the town in which it is
TO be buried, and the clerk of the town shall
issue such permit when furnished with salts
factory information
SECT. %. The provisions of this act shall be
enforced, and violation hereof shall be pun.
, ished, as provided by section sixteen of chap
ter one hundred and eighteen of the public
laws of eighteen hundred and ninety -one, I'M
= less otherwise provided for by law
SECT. "a. All acts and parts OF acts incon-
, , sstent with this act are hereby repealed
approved March 25.l
, Chapter 1856.
/ | AN ACT to amend clause two, section eighty
seven of chapter eleven of the Revised Stat
+ utes, relating to Examination of Teachers.
Clause two, section eighty seven of chapter
/ eleven of the revised statutes as amended by
chapter thirty-two of the public laws of eigIl-
/ teen hundred and ninety -une, is hereby amend
/ the fourth line, the words civil government
4 and after the word physiology" in the fifth
| line the words with special reference to the
/ effects of alchohollc drinks, stimulants, and
narcotics upon the human system; so that said
E section as amended, shall read as follows: III.
/ 'On satisfactory evidence that q candidate
} possesses q good moral character and q tenn
1 per and disposition suitable 10 be an instruc-