Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-03-29

SIlal TtttlNcs soIt anu Ctuit Jus Npits given
at said election in presence of the members of
the tribe, and shall give to those elected, GER
tificates thereof Approved March 20.
Chapter 154.
AN ACT amendatory of and additional to
chapter one hundred and eighteen OF the
Public Laws OF eighteen hundred and ninety
one, entitled IAN Act TO provide for the Reg
i5tration of Vital Statistics"
SECT. J.. Chapter one hundred and eighteen
of the public laws OF eighteen hundred and
ninety-one is hereby amended as follows:
Section four is amended by inserting after the
word "cty' in the twelfth line, the words
where said person died., so that said section
as amended shall read as follows:
SECT. 4. Whenever any person shall die, or
any still born child shall be brought forth in
this state, the undertaken, town clerk or other
person experimenting the burial of said de.
ceased person, shall obtain from the physician
attending such bringing forth or last sickness,
a certificate, duly signed, setting forth rs far
as may be- the facts required in the record of
death, according TO section one of this act and
it shall be the duty OF the undertaken, or other
person having charge OF the burial OF said de-
ceased person, To add to said certificate the
date and place'of the proposed burial. and
having duly signed the same, To forward it to
The clerk OF the town or city where said person
died and obtain a permit for burial; and in
case of any contagious or infectious disease,
said certificate SHAH be made and forwarded
Immediately.
sECr. 3 Section five is amended by inserting
after the word death in the sixth line, the
words 'or from any other source, 50 that said
section when amended, shall read us follows;
SECT. 8. III case OF any deceased person
not having had the attendance of a physician
in his or her last sickness, the town clerk may
issue and sign the certificate of death, upon
presentation of such facts may be obtained
of relatives, persons in attendance upon said
deceased person during said last sickness or
present nc the time of death, or from any other
source, and the permit for burial shall be is.
sued upon such Information. said certificate
and permit shall not be required before burial
in cases where il is impracticaole to obtain the
same within reasonable time after death, but
in all such cases said certificate shall be oh.
tanned as soon as practicable after DEATH
SECT. 3. Section seven is amended by In
serting after the word ''city" in the fifth line
the words where said person died. and also
by inserting after the word "town" in tho
twelfth line the words from whom said permit
was Obtained 80 that said section when amend
ell. shall read as follows.
SECT. Z. Except as provided in section five,
no inferment or disintcrment of The dead body
OF any human being, or disposition thereof in
any tomb, vault or cemetery, shall be made
without a permit as aforesaid from the clerk OF
the town or city where said person died, nor
otherwise than in accordance with such per-
nit, No undertaken or other person shall as
sist In, assent 10, or allow any such intcrmeDt
or disinterment to be made, except as pro
vided in section i've, until such permit has
been given as Aforesaid; and 1t shall be the
duty OF every undertaken or other person hay-
ing charge OF any burial place as aforesaid,
who shall receive such permit, to preserve and
return the same to the clerk OF the town from
whom said permit was obtained within six
days after the day of burial
SECT. 4. Section thirteen OF said chapter is
amended go that said section as amended,
shall read as follows:
SECT. -. The state registrar shall cause the
returns made TO him in pursuance of the pre-
ceding sections eleven and twelve to be ar
ranged alphabetically for convenient refer.
encc, and carefully preserved in his Office.
He shall annually make and publish general
abstract and report of the returns OF the pre-
ceding year In such form az viii render them
of practical utility, not more than two thou
sand I'VE hundred copies OF which shall be-
printed and bound in cloth, one copy of which
shall be forwarded 20 every town, one copy To
each senator and representative, one copy 10
each state and territory in the union, and the
remainder to such departments, libraries and
persons as the state registrar shall direct
SECT. 3. Section sixteen OF said chapter ~
amended so that said section as amended, shall
read as follows:
SECT. As. II any person shall willfnily neg
lect or refuse 10 perform any duty imposed
upon him by the provisions Of this act, it shall
be naisdemeanpr. and Inc shall be fined not
more than one hundrcd dollars for each oifcnse,
for the of the town in which the ofiense oc-
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