Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1902-12-22

together with his report as secretary OF
the state board of health, during the
month of April every second year, begin
ming with April 1904 This registration re-
port shall be distributed with his report
as secretary of the state board of health.
After having compiled the tables, he
shall transmit to the secretary Of
state for indexing. binding and preserve
ton the returns of town and city clerks.
and of county clerks. He shall prepare
and send to every town and city clerk in
the state the proper blanks for the use
of physicians and others in making re-
ports of births and deaths as hereinafter
provided. Each town and city clerk shall
once each year notify each physician, mid
wife or other person resident in his town
Hor city entitled to use any blanks prescrib-
ed in this act, that he is prepared to fur
nish each with the requisite blanks.
Sec. 8. Town and city clerks shall re.
ceive, number and file, in the order in
which they have occurred all certificates
of births, marriages and deaths, in their
respective towns and cities; they shall
record the marriages in the books fur
nished to them by the secretary of the
state board of health and they shall pre-
serve all certificates of births and deaths,
and they shall record on each certificates
the date of its receipt by them. Town and
city clerks in towns and cities of 1900 in
habitants, or more, shall arrange and pre-
by the secretary of the state board of
health, for binding, all certificates of
births and deaths for each year, during
the month of January in the following
year, beginning with January, 1904, and
town and city clerks in towns and cities
of less than 1000 inhabitants SHALL in the
same manner. have all certificates of
births and deaths arranged. indexed and
bound once in five years, in the month of
january next succeeding the five year pc
Rod, beginning with January, 1868
All such certificates of births and
deaths, having been bound as provided for
in this section, shall be returned to the
town and city clerks offices and preserved
therein as the permanent records of births
and deaths of each town and city. Town
and City clerks shall semi annually, in the
months of March and September, begin
ming with March, 1908, transmit to the
secretary of the state board of health a
certified copy of each birth, marriage and
death record made during the six months
last preceding the first day of January and
July respectively of the year in which
1903 the clerks shall transmit a copy of
each birth, marriage and death for tho
year 1902; such copy to be made upon
blank sheets provided by the secretary Of
the state board of health.
Town and city clerks shall receive the
sum Of ten cents for each birth, marriage
and death, certified as above furnished to
the secretary Of the state board of health.
Sec. 4. The clerks Of the county courts
shall, in the month of January in each
year, make returns to the secretary of the
state board Of health Of the number of
divorces granted. together with the causes
for which they were granted, in their re-
spective counties during the year ending
on the last day of December last preced-
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