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An Act to amend an act concerning bills of mortality, in the city of St. Louis and suburbs. 1842-1843 161 (1842)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsmo0045 and id is 1 raw text is: BILLS Of MORTALITY. § 4. Thq county court may allow to such attorney such compensation, as they may thinkleasonable, to be paid as other demands against the county. Pro- vided however, that nothing in this act shall be construed so as to compel the services of said~attorney in any criminal prosecution, or in the prosecution of any recognizance in any criminal case in said county. § 5. It shall be layful for the county court of said county, to allow such compensation, as they may think (reasonable,). to the attorney, employed by them, for his servicesi in the year 1812, to be paid as other demands against the county. § 0. Nothing in this adt shall be so construed as to compel said county court to appoint an attorney for said county, but the same shall be left at their dis- cretion. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. APPROVED, Feb. 17,1843. BILLS OP MORTALITY. AN ACT to amend an act coacerning bills qf mortality, in the city of St. Louis and suburbs. SECTION SECTION A weekly report of interments shall be made Penalty for failutro to make such weekly ro. to the register of the city of St. Louis, by port to the register of the city. - 3 persons having charge of grave yards. * I Penalty on physicians for a failure to furnish No interment shall be allowed, unless a car. a coi tificate of the name &c. of their pa. tificato be furnished of the name, &c. of tients who die..-.....-.* 4 the deconsed....-. - -.. 2 Be it enacted by the General .dssembly of the State of Missouri, as follows: § 1. That all overseers, sextons or other persons, who may have control of public grave yards in, adjoining, or within four miles of, the city of St. Louis, shall make a weekly report, to the register of the city of St. Louis, of all in- terments, during the week, in the grave yard whereof they are such overseer or sexton, respectively. Said report shall specify the names and ages of the per. sons interred, and also the diseases of which said persons died, sex, color, and if slive or free. 4 2. That if any overseer, sexton or other person, having control of a grave yard, shall permit any person to be interred in said grave yard, without a cer- tificate stating the name, age, sex, color, and If free or slave, together with the disease of which said person died, which certificate shall be signed by the phy- sician who attended said person, he shall forfeit and pay the sum of five dol- lars for every such neglect, to be recovered before any justice of the peace, in the name and to the use of the city of St. Louis, at the instance of the register of St. Louis. § 3. That if any overseer, sexton, or other person fail or neglect to make, to the register, such report of weekly interments, he shall forfeit and pay five dol- lars for every such failure, to be recovered as above. § 4. For the purpose of carrying the above act into effect, everyl physician, who may practice medicine in St. Louis and suburbs, shall, when a patient dies under his care, make out a certificate, stating the name, age, sex and color, and if free or slave, together with the name of the disease of which said person 21 Ifil

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