The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1909-07-15
No. 112, A. Published May 2S, 1909.
CHAPTER 1873. LAWS OF 1909.


Az LAC ACT to "a amend sections 1o22-12,
1o22-24, 1o25-25, 1875, 1o22-47,,
1Q22-48, subsections l and 8, of section
statutes and to create sections 1O22-6O
Z to 1022-62, inclusive, and subsections
Z Of section 1022-57, of the statutes, re-
lating to vital statistics.
The people. of the. State of Wisconsin, rep
resented in Senate and Assembly, do en-
act as follows:
Section Sections 1873 1022.12 10225
1022-25' 1022-26, 1022-47, 1875,
subsections and 3 Of section 1O22-57,
1022-59 and 4608h of the statutes are
stan 4 Pead reas2s Il decide
or the local registrar of any city or village
shall upon request furnish any applicant a
death marriage or divorce and when prop,
erly certified to shall be prima
facie evidence in all courts and all places
of the facts stated therein.
Section 1022-13. For
such certified COPY Is = he shall be en-
titled to a fee Of fifty cents to be paid by
the applicant; the state registrar
counts Of all fees received BY him and turn
same over to the state treasurer at
the close of each fiscal year.
Section 1022-17. Each sub-registrar
shall note over his signature the date of
each certificate received by him and for
warded to the local registrar of the
district within ten days, and before the
sub-registrar shall be subject to the provi-
sions and control of the state registrar,
and may be removed by him for
neglect or failure to perform his duties and
shall be liable to the same penalty for neg
lect of duty as the local registrar.
Section 1022-19. Each physician, mid
wife and undertaken shall on or before the
first day of January, 1910. regis
ter his or her name, address, and occppa-
ton with the local registrar Of the district
in which he or she resides or may
thereafter establish a residence and shall
thereupon be supplied by the local regis
trar with copy of this act, together with
such rules and regulations as may be pre-
pared by the state registrar relative to Its
enforcement
Section 1O22-21. If any certificate of
death is incomplete or unsatisfactory, 1t
shall be the local registrars duty to call
attention to the defects in the return and
to withhold issuing the burial or removal
permit to the undertaken, until the neces-
sary information is obtained or a satlsfac-
tory record furnished.
registrar shall number and date consecu-
lively the certificates of births, deaths and
marriages as he receives them, be-
ginning with number zone" in each calen-
dar year and sign his name as such
registrar thereto.
registrar in all cities and incorporated viii
lagos shall also make and keep a complete
marriage certificate received by
him, upon form identical with the origin
al certificate to be filed and perma-
nently preserved in his Office. the local
record of such birth death, or marriage,
in such manner as directed by the state
registrar.
registrar shall, on or before the seventh
day of each month, transmit to the state
registrar all original certificates Of births,
deaths, marriages, or accidents received by
him. provided that in cities Of. the first
class original certificates may be retained
by the local health authorities and
duplicates of the original certificates may
be forwarded by the local registrar to the
state registrar.
Section 1022-47 1t shall be necessary
for all parties intending to be married in
this state to obtain from the county clerk,
or other person designated by law to au-
thoriZe marriage, certificate of marriage
as completely filled out as possible from
the information given, with the exception
of the names OF subscribing witnesses and
the signature of the person performing the
marriage ceremony.
Section 1O22-4S. Said certificate shall
be delivered to the ordained minister or
priest, court commissioner, judge of court
of record, Justice of the peace, or other
person selected to perform the marriage,
completely filed out and signed to the local
registrar Of vital statistics of the city, in
cOrporated village or town in which
said marriage was performed within three
days after the date of the marriage. The
marriage license shall be retained by the
person who solemnizes the marriage to be
prima facie evidence of his authority to
perform the marriage ceremony.
Section 1O22-57. l. For each
complete certificate of each birth. death,
marriage or accident forwarded to the state
registrar, together with the copy thereof,
transmitted to the register of deeds in
cordance with the provisions of this ac7.
including the copy retained in cities a.
villages the local registrar shall be pG
the sum of fifteen cents.
g. Certificates lacking items which sh
be determined by the state registrar to
important shall be considered o.
fectiVe in so far as they fail to contain ~
specific facts or items demanded by
state registrar unless the missing inform
ton or facts are obtained
to complete the original certificate and n
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