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An Act to amend an act requiring the registration of Births, Marriages, and Deaths. 1859 vol. I 121 (1859)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsky0793 and id is 1 raw text is: LAWS OF KENTUCKY. CHAPTER 1288. 1860. AN ACT to amend an act requiring the registration of Births, Marriages, and Deaths. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That a Registrar of births, marriages, and deaths be rReg istrar of appointed by the Governor, whose duty it shall be to pre- agesanddeathv to be a ppointed pare blanks suitable for the proper carrying out of the pro- by topprnor. visions of this, act, and distribute them to the different counties of the State, for the use of those whose duty it His duty. may be to collect the facts herein required to be recorded. He shall send with such blanks proper instructions, showing how they are to be filled, so as to give correct returns of the facts desired to be collected. 2. Ile shall receive, from the Auditor of Public Accounts, the assessors' books pertaining to births, marriages, and deaths, and make from them tabular statements, showing, in a condensed form, the information herein required to be collected--keeping the statistics of each county separate. He shall add to this report such practical remarks as may seem to be proper, and have twenty-five hundred copies printed for general distribution le shall send to each physician, surgeon, and midwife, who shall make the re- turns herein required of them, a copy of each annual report, neatly bound, at the expense of the State. 3. He shall have the assessors' books bound, by the pub- lic binder, in volumes of size suitable for reference-the births, marriages, and deaths to be bound separately, and under each head. 4. lie shall attach to each volume of births, marriages, Shall make and deaths, an index, containing the name of each white index to vol. of bir,ths, marri- person contained therein, and shall return these volumes to ages & deaths. the Auditor of Public Accounts for careful preservation. These books shall be arranged in alphabetical order of counties: Provided, That whenever-the clerk of any county court shall send up his copy by the Registrar so that they could not be conveniently examined after having been bound, then, and in that case, the Registrar shall have such books copied in a proper form, at the expense of the clerk who sent them. 5. He may, from time to time, make such alterations in May alter forms of blanks the forms of blanks as experience shall suggest as proper, and require such additional information as he may consider necessary to effect more perfectly the object of this act. OF ASSESSORS. § 2. It shall be the duty of assessors, while they are tak- duA ss .ors' ing the lists of taxable property, to ascertain, and record y. in lists furnished by Registrar for that purpose, all the births and deaths which shall have occurred in their respective 16

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