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An Act to alter and amend the law in relation to the registration of births, marriages and deaths. 1858 725 (1858)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactssc0421 and id is 1 raw text is: OF SOUTH CAROLINA. A. D. WU& AN ACT TO ALTER AND AMEND THE LAW IN RELATION TO THE REGIS- 'TRATION OF BIRTHS, MARRIAGES AND DEATHS. No. 4410. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives, now met and sitting in General Assembly, and by the authority of the same, That it shall be the duty of all Magistrates, Clergymen and others, who perform marriage 7 or Ma ceremony in South Carolina, to keep a registry of all marriages celebrated by them, together with date, names, ages, residence and nativity of parties. II. That it shall be the duty of all Physicians and Midwives to keep a Dut of P elans and 4 registry of all births and deaths, at which they have attended professionally, wives. which registry shall show, in case of white births, the time and place, names. and residence of parents, sex and name of child, (if it have the latter,) and whether born alive or dead; in case of deaths of whites, the date, place and cause of death, name, age, sex, whether single or married, occupation, residence and nativity of the deceased, with names and surnames of parents; in case of births and deaths of slaves the same items, together with the name of the owner, instead of name of the deceased and the names of parents. III. That it shall be the duty of all Physicians, Clergymen and Midwives, to deliver to the Tax Collector of the District in which such births occur, while he is collecting taxes in every year, the said registries, or copies of atumab'. them, embracing the period of one year, ending on the thirty-first day of December preceding. IV. That it shall be the duty of each Tax Collector, while attending to tof MIX the other business of his office, to ascertain, number and record, in the order in which they are received (in blank books to be furnished him for that purpose), all the births, marriages and deaths, which have occurred in the District during the year preceding the first day of January previous, with all the items as inserted in the registries above named. He shall make strict inquiry of individuals and heads of families, and also, make. use of the registries of Physicians above named, in order to obtain the correct information and complete his lists; after completion of said lists, the Tax Collector shall make out, and attach thereto, a complete alphabetical index of the same, and he shall return, on oath, the books containing said records and index to the Comptroller General at the time when he makes hi general tax returns. V. That the Tax Collectors shall be entitled to retain, out of the taxes copected by them, five cents for collecting, recording and indexing, a com- plete return of each birth, death and marriage, required by this Act. VI. That any citizen refusing to give the necessary information, and any Tsx Collector, Clergyman, Physician, Magistrate or Midwife, refusing to emply with the requisitions of this Act, shall be fined for each offence ten pnafly for &Iiva , which fine shall be recovered by any person who shall sue before a rusal.

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