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An Act to provide for the recording of Births and Deaths. 1811 74 (1811)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsla0038 and id is 1 raw text is: (74) CHAPTER XX. AN- ACT To provide for the recording of Births Ed Deaths. SEc. I. Be it enacted, by the Legislative Council and House of Representatives of the Territory of Orleans, in General Assembiy convened, That it shall be the duty of all the parish judges of this Territory (except the parish judge of New-Or. leans, to be hereafter provided for) to record all the births of white persons on a book bound and kept for that purpose by order of dates, and like. vise to record all deaths of white persons on ano. ther book kept in the same manner. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the parish judges to receive decla. rations of births within eight days from the birth, and that they may however extend that delay to three months after the birth, when a declaration could not be made sooner on account of the per. sons who are to make the same, living at a distance or being prevented so to do by sickness or other, lawful impediment. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the birth of a child shall be declared by his father, or in case the father could not make the said declar- ation, by any other person who may have been present at the birth of the child, and that the said birth shall be immediately recorded in the pre- sence of two witnesses.

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