Report of births, marriages, and deaths in Massachusetts. 18621862 |
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100 Persons living Accident or Negligence Aggregate Almshouse April Ascites August Average Barnstable Berkshire Births to 100 Braintree Bridgewater Bristol Brookfield Causes not specified CAUSES OF DEATH cent classed comprising Violent Deaths Counties and Towns Deaths from divers Deaths to Persons December Diathetic Dietic Distinguishing by Counties divers specified causes Dropsy Dukes and Nantucket East Bridgewater Eight Mos ending Dec Essex February Fever FIVE WESTERN COUNTIES-1860 Five Years-Continued Five Yrs Foxborough Franklin Hampden Hampshire Hydrocephalus Ileus Integumentary System Ischuria July March Marriages MECHANICS IN SHOPS Metria Miasmatic Middlesex Middlesex-Con Monson Months NINE EASTERN COUNTIES-1860 Nineteen Norfolk November number of Deaths Number of Number Number of Persons PERCENTAGE Persons to 100 Phillipston Plymouth Population RATIO registered number Scrofula Suffolk TABLE VII.-Continued TABLE X.-Continued TABLE XII.-General Abstract Tewksbury U.S. Census SEX Unknown Urinary Organs West Boylston Worcester Worcester-Con XII.-General Abstract BIRTHS XII.-General Abstract Counties
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Page clxiii - A justice of the peace or minister who joins persons in marriage contrary to the provisions of this chapter, knowing that the marriage is not duly authorized, shall forfeit not less than fifty nor more than one hundred dollars.
Page clxii - State, and they return to dwell here, they shall within seven days after their return, file with the clerk or registrar of the city or town where either of them lived at the time, a certificate or declaration of their marriage, including the facts concerning marriages required by law, and for every neglect they shall forfeit ten dollars. SECTION 13. No magistrate or minister shall solemnize a marriage, having reasonable cause to suppose either of the parties to be under the age mentioned in section...
Page clxiii - ... the Friends or Quakers are solemnized, shall make a record of each marriage solemnized before him, together with all facts relating to the marriage required by law to be recorded. He shall also between the first and tenth days of each month return a copy of the record for the month next preceding, to the clerk or registrar of the city or town in which the marriage was solemnized, and shall when neither of the parties to...
Page clxi - Any city or town containing more than ten thousand inhabitants may choose a person other than the clerk to be registrar, who shall be sworn, and to whom all the provisions of this chapter concerning clerks shall apply. The returns and notices required to be made and given to clerks shall be made and given to such registrar, under like penalties.
Page clxi - APPENDIX. the facts in relation to the births and deaths which occur in their respective institutions, in like manner as is required of town clerks. The clerks of said towns shall, in relation to the births and deaths of persons in said almshouses, be exempt from the duties otherwise required of them by this chapter.
Page clx - ... such person — forthwith furnish for registration a certificate of the duration of the last sickness, the disease of which the person died, and the date of his decease, as nearly as he can state the same. If any physician refuses or neglects to make such certificate, he shah" forfeit and pay the sum of ten dollars to the use of the town in which he resides.
Page clxiii - SECT. 21. The record of a marriage, made and kept as prescribed by law by the person before whom the marriage is solemnized, or by the clerk or registrar of any city or town, or a copy of such record duly certified, shall be received in all courts and places as presumptive evidence of such marriage.
Page clx - SECTION clxii like notice of every birth and death happening in his house ; the eldest person next of kin shall give such notice of the death of his kindred ; the keeper of a...
Page clix - ... numbering and recording the same in the order in which he receives them, designated in separate columns : In the record of births, the date of the birth, the place of birth, the name of the child, (if it have any,) the sex and color of the child, the names and the places of birth of the parents, the occupation of the father, the residence of the parents, and the date of the...
Page clix - ... any,) the sex and color of the child, the names and the places of birth of the parents, the occupation of the father, the residence of the parents, and the date of the record; In the record of marriages, the date of the marriage, the place of marriage, the name, residence, and official station of the person by whom married, the names and the places of birth of the parties, the residence of each, the age and color of each...