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

registrar to enforce this section "a far a
comes within his power. and when the state
! that any penalty or forfeiture unrer this act
has been incurred, he shall at his discretion
forwiih give notice thereof, in writing, 20 the
az las ID WHICH
tee shall STATE as near rs 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 10 the default Of duty
as said state registrar may have been able to
learn. and upon receipt of such notice the
county attorney shah prosecute the dctanlting
Sgcr.e. Section seventeen of said chapter is
amended so that said section as amended shall
read as follows:
SHAH be paid by such city or town for rcceiv-
ing, recording and rcturning the facts required
10 De recorded by This act, the sum of fifteen
cents for each birth, marriage and death, and
Tor each birth or death duly reported 10 the
town clerk, physicians shall receive twenty
I'VE cents from the town in which the birth or
death mas occurred IL shall he 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
or eighteen hundred and ninety-cnc, and when
he knows of any birth marriage or death.
which is not reported to his office in accord.
anee with the provisions of said chapter, he
shall collect, SO tar as he is able TO do 80 tho
| facts called for in the blank certificates OF
birth. OF marriage, or OF death, as furni shed by
The state registrar. and shall record them as
- Mr. prrse.ioeu IN saiu ehaptvr one huhurcu anu
death thus collected and recorted he shall re-
ceNe nom inc Town the sum OF twenty>nvo
oeuts,
SnSt' q eaiu ehaptcr Is fnrther amendeu by
adding thereto the following sections.
SET, ~. a physician who has attended
PERSON uuring ms iast liiness shall, when re.
Vuostcu, tVrtnwih iurblsh Tor fcgistiatlon
certificate stating, to the best ot his knowledge
~, Siu ,uenel, tne nnnc OF lnc Ieceaseu, MS ages
INC nis YisSase "i whien ne dled AMI ,hc late OF
aitendsG ~ ne birth OF = ehil,l diving immedi-
ately thereafter, or at the birth of a sttliborn
s en- shali, when requested, forthwith furnish
Tor registration ccrtincatc. stating to the best
ot ms knowledgo and belief, the fact that such
enid died after birth or was born dead. It
shal DC msdcmcanor Tor amy person to
inake n iaIsc return IN regard 10 any birth OF
DEATH
'Skcr. 20 when birth, marriage or death
occurs IN an unincorporaicd placc,it shall he rec
ported to the town clerk in the town which ID
nearest TO the place NJ which the birth, mar
riagc or death took place, and snail be re-
corded by the town clerk To whom the report
Is made; and all such reports and records
shall he made and recorded and returned to
the state registrar as is provided In chapter
one hundred and eighteen, laws of eighteen
hundred and ntncty.one.
SECT. q. The clerk of each town shall. on
the first Monday of each month. make u cert.
fled copy of the record OF all deaths and births
recorded In the books of said town during tho
previous month, whenever the deceased per-
son, or the parents of the child born were res.
idcnt In any other town In this state at the
time of said death or birth, or whenever they
were recently resident I'm any other town, or
whenever the remains of any deceased person
have been carried to any other town for bur.
ial; and shall transmit said certified copies to
the clerk of the town In which said deceased
person or parents were resident nj or near tho
TIME of said birth or DEATH or to which the re-
mains OF such deceased person have been car
rcd for burial, stating In addition the name
OF the street and the number OF the house, IL
any, where such deceased person or parents
so resided whenever tho same can BIO ascer.
tanned; and the clerk so receiving such certi,
fed 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 n deceased person
whose death was caused by cholera, yellow