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An Act to provide for the Registration of Births, Marriages, and Deaths. 1861 99 (1861.1)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsde0197 and id is 1 raw text is: STATE OF DELAWARE. man and Commissioners, by Section 19, are required to deliver to the Treasurer, shall be delivered to the Collector. The Collector 'oyr, or shall have the same powers in the collection of the taxes as are Collector. conferred on the Treasurer by said Section, and shall receive reasonable compensation, to be determined in like manner. SECTION 21. The present Commissioners, Treasurer, Clerk, and Assessor, shall remain in office until the election next after the passage of this act, and until successors be duly chosen. SEcro.oN 22. All acts and parts of acts as are inconsistent with teco,,sislt the provisions of the act, or which have been supplied by, andn-paea embraced in this act, are hereby repealed. SFr moN 23. This act shall be deemed and taken to be a public ruebcoet. act, and shall be printed among the laws of this State. Passed at Dover, February 28, 1861. CHAPTER 66. An Act to provide for the Registration of Births, MiJrrihges, and Deaths, Be it enacted by the Senate and .Kouse of Representatives of the State of Delaware in General Assembly met: SECTION 1. The Recorder of Deeds in each of the counties of this State shall, onRecorders of or before the first day of July, A. D. 1861, procure three suitable proure books, in which respectively to record births, marriages, and 1,hietO deaths, and shall record all such births, marriages, and deaths ror birhu in said record books respectively, as the same may be returnedu 0aIt8. or lodged in his office for that purpose, for which service he shall receive from the county one cent for every ten words. He shallFe-, also, on the first day of July, A.D. 1862, and every year thereafter, Astract of furnish an abstract of such records for the preceding year, con- record,. taining the number of deaths, with the reported causes, arranged What to according to the diseases, the number of marriages solemnized, conuun. the number of births, and such other inforiation and suggestions as he may deem of practical utility for the promotion of public health, and of general interest to the community, and shall cause To C1m8 01o the same to be published in some newspaper of his county,.or ifusaotmied there be none published in his county, then in some newspaper in one of the other counties, for which copy he shall be paid at the same rate as above provided. The Levy Court shall also allow a Tho Levy reasonable compensation for such publication, and for the cost of oo'fopt' such books and blank certificates as shall be necessary to carry j out the provisions of this act. The books so provided by the 90

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