Deaths 1891-1893, Part 17

Author: Chelmsford (Mass.)
Publication date: 1891-1893
Publisher:
Number of Pages: 386


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Many mou


male,


Place of Death-No.


Street (or Corporation).


Disease or Cause of Death,


Primaria


duration of*


Complications, ..


I certify that the above is a true return to the best of my recollection and belief.


Name and Professional Title, Jammer Jogarun


Residence, No. 25 Harment Street .....


Dated at Lowell, this


Iwent Mouth


day of


189 3


.....


Street (or Corporation), Ward


Father's Name,


Cemetery Range


, Lot


, Grave


Ree No.


Commonwealth of Massachusetts.


RETURN OF A DEATH. To the Clerk of the Town in which the Death occurred.


1. Date of Death,


2. Name,


(Maiden Name),*


(Name of Husband),*


3. Sex, and whether single, Married, or Widowed,


While


4. Color, t .


20 Years,


Months,


21


Days.


5. Age,


Disease or Cause of Death, (Primary and Secondary), #


6. Duration of Sickness, . By whom certified,


7. Residence,


8. Occupation, .


9. Place of Death, . .


10. Place of Birth, . ·


11. Name of Father,


Dorian Andrew Louisa Andrew


12. Name of Mother, (Maiden Name), Arlington


rauchen


13. Birthplace of Father, .


14. Birthplace of Mother, .


15. Place of Interment, +


Signature of Undertaker or other person making the Return, .


for Board of Health


DATED at


W. Chelmotor.


1813


* If a Married Woman or Widow. { If a Soldier who served in the War of the Rebellion.


t If other than White. (M.) Mulatto. (I.) Indian. If of other Races, specify what.


[Be very particular to fill all Blanks.] Plate. Ed. Nov. 1890-5,000.


204 1


Amil, 1. 1893 abbie In Andrews


Female, Drugie 1


Heart Failure Deconciencia Trou months


25. 2. Alecher M. 2 To Chelmsford. twill hand


Arlington Vht,


thattobury 25


Alington V.t.


[ACTS OF 1888, CHAP. 306.]


AN ACT


RELATING TO THE CERTIFICATES AND REGISTRY OF DEATHS, AND THE BURIAL AND REMOVAL OF BODIES OF DECEASED PERSONS.


Be it enacted, etc., as follows :


SECTION 1. Section thrce of chapter thirty-two of the Public Statutes, requiring attending physicians to furnish for registration certain facts relating to deceased persons, is amended so as to read as follows :- Section 3. A physician who has attended a person during his last illness shall, when requested, forthwith furnish for registration, a certificate stating, to the best of his knowledge and belief, the name of the deceased, his age, the disease of which he died, the duration of his last sickness, and the date of his decease. If a physician neglects or refuses to make a certificate, as aforesaid, he shall be pun- ished by a fiue not exceediug fifty dollars.


SECTION 2. Section five of said chapter, prohibiting the burial or removal of a human body until a proper certificate is fur- nished, is amended so as to read as follows : - Section 5. No undertaker, sexton or other person shall bury in a city or town or remove therefrom the body of a deceased person until he has received a permit so to do from the board of health or its duly appointed agent, or, if there is no board of health in such city or town, from the city or town clerk. No such permit shall be issued until there has been delivered to such board, or agent or clerk, as the case may be, a satisfactory written state- ment containing the facts required by this chapter to be returned and recorded, together with the certificate of the atteuding physician, if any, as required by section threc of this chapter, or in lieu thereof a certificate as hereinafter provided. If there is no attending physician, or if the certificate of the attending physician cannot be obtained, for good and sufficient reasons, early enough for the purpose, the chairman of the board of health or any physician employed by a city or town for the purpose shall, upon request of said board, agent or clerk, make such certificate as is required of the attending physician; and in case of death by violence, the medical examiner shall, if requested, make the same. When such satisfactory statement and certificate are de- livered to the board of health or to its agent, the board or agent shall forthwith countersign and transmit the same to the clerk or registrar for registration. The person to whom the permit is so given shall thereafter furnish for registration any other information as to the deceased or to the manner and caus. ath, as the clerk or registrar may require. Any person violating any of the provisions of this section shall be pun. not exceeding fifty dollars. [Approved May 4, 1888


Ru No


Commonbocalth of Massachusetts.


RETURN OF A DEATH. To the Clerk of the Town in which the Death occurred.


1. Date of Death, .



1.


(Maiden Name) ,* · (Name of Husband),*


3. Sex, and whether single, Married, or Widowed,


1 1


4. Color,t


. .


1-2 Years, 6 Months, 7 .. Days.


5. Age, .


Disease or Cause of Death, 1 (Primary and Secondary), ;


6. Duration of Sickness, . By whom certified,


7. Residence, .


8. Occupation, . ·


9. Place of Death, . . .


10. Place of Birth, . .


11. Name of Father, · . .


..... .


1.1. 2 25, TV


12. Name of Mother, . (Maiden Name),


13. Birthplace of Father, .


11. Birthplace of Mother, .


15. Place of Interment,


..... ....


DATED at Chilin2, oral,01


f


1


-


* If a Married Woman or Widow. { If a Soldier who served inthe War of the Rebellion.


t If other than White. (M.) Mulatto. (I.) Indian. If of other Races, speelfy what.


[Be very particular to fill all Blanks.] Plate. Ed. May, 1891 .- 5,000.


.......


............. ...... ...


.


Signature of Undertaker or other person making the Return, . .


205


2. Name,


[ACTS OF 1888, CHAP. 306.] AN ACT


RELATING TO THE CERTIFICATES AND REGISTRY OF DEATHS, AND THE BURIAL AND REMOVAL OF BODIES OF DECEASED PERSONS.


Be it enacted, etc., as follows :


SECTION 1. Section three of chapter thirty-two of the Public Statutes, requiring attending physicians to furnish for registration certain facts relating to deceased persons, is amended so as to read as follows : - Section 3. A physician who has attended a person during his last illness shall, when requested, forthwith furnish for registration, a certificate stating, to the best of his knowledge and belief, the name of the deceased, his age, the disease of which he died, the duration of his last siekness, and the date of his decease. If a physician neglects or refuses to make a certificate, as aforesaid, he shall be pun- ished by a fine not exceeding fifty dollars.


SECTION 2. Section five of said chapter, prohibiting the burial or removal of a human body until a proper certificate is fur- nished, is amended so as to read as follows : - Section 5. No undertaker, sexton or other person shall bury in a city or town or remove therefrom the body of a deceased person until he has received a permit so to do from the board of health or its duly appointed agent, or, if there is no board of health in such city or town, from the city or town clerk. No such permit shall be issued until there has been delivered to such board, or agent or clerk, as the case may be, a satisfactory written state- ment containing the facts required by this chapter to be returned and recorded, together with the certificate of the attending physician, if any, as required by section threc of this chapter, or in lieu thereof a certificate as hereinafter provided. If there is no attending physician, or if the eertificate of the attending physician cannot be obtained, for good and sufficient reasons, carly enough for the purpose, the chairman of the board of health or any physician employed by a city or town for the purpose shall, upon request of said board, agent or clerk, make such certificate as is required of the attending physician; and in case of death by violence, the medical examiner shall, if requested, make the same. When such satisfactory statement and certificate are de- livered to the board of health or to its agent, the board or agent shall forthwith countersign and transmit the same to the clerk or registrar for registration. The person to whom the permit is so given shall thereafter furnish for registration any other information as to the deceased or to the manner and cause of the death, as the clerk or registrar may require. Any person violating any of the provisions of this section shall be punished by a fine not exceeding fifty dollars. [Approved May 4, 1899.


Report of


death


Date of death- April 12th , 893


Name


Sex


John Barker Male Single


Age


39 years 4 Months 17 00un Disease - Apoplexy


Duration of suchiness- four days By whom Certified N.B. Edwards M.D. ichation Teamster Were born Sandwich Mass. 1


there dred - North Chelmsford Mass. Name of Father - John Barker Name of Mother- Rebecca Mc Lane Barker Birthplace of Father-Charlestown Mass. Birth place of Mother-East Cambridge Mass. Where intered North Chelmsford Mars.


Reporten by Arthur tr. Sheldon


N Chelmsford Mass Avr. 1 2th 1893


Commonwealth of massachusetts.


No.


RETURN OF A DEATH. To the Clerk of the Town in which the Death occurred.


1. Date of Death, .


2. Name,


Apr 13th 1843 Elizabeth Bridgford Beebe


(Maiden Name ) , # .


(Name of Husband),*


3. Sex, and whether single, Married, or Widowed,


4. Color.t


5. Age, . ·


Disease or Cause of Death, (Primary and Secondary), #


6. Duration of Sickness, . By whom certified,


7. Residence, .


8. Occupation, .


9. Place of Death, . .


10. Place of Birthı, .


11. Name of Father,


12. Name of Mother, (Maiden Name).


13. Birthplace of Father, .


14. Birthplace of Mother, .


15. Place of Interment,


Signature of Undertaker or other person making the Return, .


Arthur H. Sheleon


DATED at A Chelmsford , On 1893


* If a Married Woman or Widow. { If a Soldier who served in the War of the Rebellion.


t If other than White. (M.) Mulatto. (I.) Indian. If of other Races, specify what. {Be very particular to fill all Blanks. ] Plate. Ed. May, 1891. - 5,000.


Thomas Bridgford Female


Married White


58 Years, .Months, 6 Days. Congestion of Lungs 10 days


G. A. Harlow M.D. North Chelmsford Mass Housekeeper


North Chelmsford Mars. England


Abhn Beek


Sarah- Beebe England


England


North Chelmsford Mass.


1


1


[ACTS OF 1888, CHAF. 306.] AN ACT


RELATING TO THE CERTIFICATES AND REGISTRY OF DEATHS, AND THE BURIAL AND REMOVAL OF BODIES OF DECEASED PERSONS.


Be it enacted, etc., as follows :


SECTION 1. Section three of chapter thirty-two of the Publie Statutes, requiring attending physicians to furnish for registration certain facts relating to deceased persons, is amended so as to read as follows : - Section 3. A physician who has attended a person during his last illness shall, when requested, forthwith furnish for registration, a certificate stating, to the best of his knowledge and belief, the name of the deceased, his age, the disease of which he died. the duration of his last sickness, and the date of his deeease. If a physician negleets or refuses to make a certifieate, as aforesaid, he shall be pun- ished by a fine not exceeding fifty dollars.


SECTION 2. Seetion five of said chapter, prohibiting the burial or removal of a human body until a proper certificate is fur- nished, is amended so as to read as follows : - Section 5. No undertaker, sexton or other person shall bury in a eity or town or remove therefrom the body of a deceased person until he has received a permit so to do from the board of health or its duly appointed agent, or, if there is no board of health in such eity or town, from the eity or town elerk. No such permit shall be issued until there has been delivered to sueh board, or agent or elerk, as the ease may be, a satisfactory written state- ment containing the faets required by this chapter to be returned and recorded, together with the certificate of the attending physician, if any, as required by seetion three of this chapter, or in lieu thereof a certificate as hereinafter provided. If there is no attending physician, or if the certificate of the attending physician cannot be obtained, for good and sufficient reasons, early enough for the purpose, the chairman of the board of health or any physician employed by a eity or town for the purpose shall, upon request of said board, agent or clerk, make such certifieate as is required of the attending physician; and in ease of death by violenee, the medical examiner shall, if requested, make the same. When such satisfactory statement and certifieate are de- livered to the board of healthi or to its agent, the board or agent shall forthwith countersign and transmit the same to the elerk or registrar for registration. The person to whom the permit is so given shall thereafter furnish for registration auy other information as to the deecased or to the manner and cause of the death, as the elerk or registrar may require. Any person Holating any of the provisions of the action '. "' > punished by a fine not exceeding fifty dollars. [ Approved Ma"


. PLEASE FILL OUT WITH INK.


NDERTAKER'S


RETURN.


To the Board of Health and the Clerk of the City of Lowell.


Undertakers must make this return before the burial or removal of the deceased.


Date of Death,


17 1893 Name (daHT(is) }


Licht leIL


Maiden Name,


Sex, ........ male; Color,


Age, ( 7 years, 7 months, 27 days.


Single, Married or Widowed, ....


. .. .. ...


Name of Attending Physician,


Residence of Deceased-No .. Cask Chileenseend Sweet (or Corporation), Ward.


Occupation, Husband's Name, Secureearly Cette


Place of Death-No ..


.Street (or Corporation), Ward


Birthplace of Deceased,


Father's Name, .. Stiri,


Father's Birthplace, To The extentnewquay


Mother's Name, Va Creste,


Mother's Birthplace,


11


Mother's Maiden Name


Place of Interment, Bayhard Ch Cemetery Range


... , Lot , Grave


Signature of Undertaker or Informer,


Dated at Lowell, this


day of.


189 .... ) ....


Physician's Certificate of the Cause of Death.


(See extracts from Acts of Legislature below.)


Date of Death,


17


189.3.


Name and Sex of Deceased ( Hauteur &,


male,


Place of Death-No. East Chefenesperes alle Street (or Corporation).


Disease or Cause of Death,


duration of*


Complications,


I certify that the above is a true return to the best of my recollection and belief.


Name and Professional Title


.......................


Residence, No.


Street


Dated at Lowell, this


19 %


day of


189 B


RETURN OF DEATH


-- OF -


.... ...... ...... .. 189


PLEASE FILL OUT WITH INK.


UNDERTAKER'S RETURN.


To the Board of Health and the Clerk of the City of Lowell.


Undertakers must make this return before the burial or removal of the deceased.


Date of Death,


que 17


1893 Name Many to, Dennen


Maiden Name, I ris coll Sex .... .male; Color,


Single, Married or Widowved, .. Age, 50 years, -months, days.


Name of Attending Physician,


Tricholo


Residence of Deceased-No


Street (or Corporation), Ward


Occupation,


at- Home


Husband's Name, ......


Place of Death-No.


Street (or Corporation), Ward


Birthplace of Deceased,


Father's Birthplace, relaxed .....


Mother's Name,.


.. Mother's Birthplace,


Mother's Maiden Name,


Place of Interment,


Controles Some Cemetery Range .. ..... , Lot.


..... Grave


Signature of Undertaker or Informer,


Dated at Lowell, this


....


day of The


189 3


Physician's Certificate of the Cause of Death,


M


(See extracts from Acts of Legislature below.)


Date of Death,


apie 17 th


189 3.


Name and Sex of Deceased Mary & Brannan


female,


Place of Death-No. . Chelmsford Mars


Street (or Corporation).


Disease or Cause of Death, Phthisis Tuberculosis .... ... .... .


duration of* 6 months


Complications,


I certify that the above is a true return to the best of my recollection and belief.


Name and Professional Title,. John Holyokea whole ML


Residence, No. . thelina ford


Street


Lowellat


Paulus fort


Dated at bowett, this


18th,


day of aque 189 3


mars


Father's Name,


Commonwealth of Massachusetts.


RETURN OF A DEATH. To the Clerk of the Town in which the Death occurred.


1. Date of Death,


1


873


2. Name,


(Maiden Name),*


(Name of Husband) ,*


3. Sex, and whether single, Married, or Widowed,


4. Color.i .


5. Age, ·


Disease or Cause of Death, (Primary and Secondary ), ;


6. Duration of Sickness, . By whom certified,


7. Residence,


8. Occupation, .


9. Place of Death, .


10. Place of Birthi, .


11. Name of Father,


12. Name of Mother, (Maiden Name).


13. Birthplace of Father,


14. Birthplace of Mother, .


15. Place of Interment,


.


Waterford 1.


Seront Hapgore !


Betéen Samling


Stower, Mais


Sudbury Mars


Signature of Undertaker or other person making the Return, . .


.


4


18


DATED at


* If a Married Woman or Widow. { If a Soldier who served in the War of the Rebellion.


t If other than White. (M.) Mulatto. (I.) Indian. If of other Races, specify what. [Be very particular to fill all Blanks.] Plate. Ed. May, 1891. - 5,000.


A


cx


7


.... .. ...


65 ... Years, 10 Months, S Days.


.


No.


1. pearl


[ACTS OF 1888, CHIAF. 306.]


AN ACT


RELATING TO THE CERTIFICATES AND REGISTRY OF DEATHS, AND THE BURIAL AND REMOVAL OF BODIES OF DECEASED PERSONS.


Be it enacted, etc., as follows :


SECTION 1. Section three of chapter thirty-two of the Publie Statutes, requiring attending physicians to furnish for registration certain facts relating to deceased persons, is amended so as to read as follows : - Section 3. A physician who has attended a person during his last illness shall, when requested, forthwith furnish for registration, a certificate stating, to the best of his knowledge and belief, the name of the deceased, his age, the disease of which he died, the duration of his last sickness, and the date of his decease. If a physician negleets or refuses to make a certificate, as aforesaid, he shall be pull- ished by a fine not exceeding fifty dollars.


SECTION 2. Section five of said chapter, prohibiting the burial or removal of a human body until a proper certificate is fur- nished, is amended so as to read as follows : - Section 5. No undertaker, sexton or other person shall bury in a city or town or remove therefrom the body of a deceased person until he has received a permit so to do from the board of health or its duly appointed agent, or, if there is no board of health in sueh city or town, from the eity or town elerk. No such permit shall be issued until there has been delivered to sueh board, or agent or clerk, as the ease may be, a satisfactory written state- ment containing the facts required by this chapter to be returned and recorded, together with the certificate of the attending physician, if any, as required by seetion three of this chapter, or in lieu thereof a certificate as hereinafter provided. If there is no attending physician, or if the certificate of the attending physician cannot be obtained, for good and sufficient reasons, early enough for the purpose, the chairman of the board of health or any physician employed by a city or town for the purpose shall, upon request of said board, agent or clerk, make sueh certificate as is required of the attending physician; and in case of deatlı by violence, the medical examiner shall, if requested, make the same. When sueh satisfactory statemcut and certificate are de- livered to the board of health or to its agent, the board or agent shall forthwith eountersign and transmit the same to the clerk- or registrar for registration. The person to whom the permit is so given shall thereafter furnish for registration any other information as to the deceased or to the manner and cause of the death, as ^^ clerk or registrar may require. Any person violating any of the provisions of this section she punished by a fin ^tv dollars. [Approved May 4, 1888.


Commonwealth of Massachusetts.


9


No


RETURN OF A DEATH. To the Clerk of the Town in which the Death occurred.


1. Date of Death,


January 20 1893 Thy Harvuelta Parkhurst


2. Name,


(Maiden Name),*


Mise Simmonds a. W. Park hurst


3. Sex, and whether single, Married, or Widowed,


Female


married White


4. Color, t .


5. Age,


65 Years, - Months, ~ Days.


Pneumonia


Disease or Cause of Death, (Primary and Secondary), #


6. Duration of Sickness, . By whom certified,


Short In Edwards


7. Residence, .


8. Occupation, .


9. Place of Death, .


10. Place of Birth, .


11. Name of Father,


12. Name of Mother, (Maiden Name),


13. Birthplace of Father, .


11. Birthplace of Mother, .


15. Place of Interment, ·


West Chelmsford


midden


DATED 2 ....


Jan 22


,


on


$23


* If a Married Woman or Widow. { If a Soldier who served in the War of the Rebellion.


[ If other than White. (M.) Mulatto. (I.) Indian. If of other Races, specify what.


[Be very particular to fill all Blanks.] Plate. Ed. May, 1891 .- 5,000.


West Chalmerford


House Keeper


Orest Chilmeter Fanta Ry


marco Simonds


Anna Davis


Foster Ry


Signature of Undertaker or other person making the Return .


.....


(Name of IIusband),*


-


[ACTS OF 1888, CHAP. 30G.]


AN ACT


RELATING TO THE CERTIFICATES AND REGISTRY OF DEATHS, AND THE BURIAL AND REMOVAL OF BODIES OF DECEASED PERSONS.


Be it enacted, etc., as follows :


SECTION 1. Section three of chapter thirty-two of the Public Statutes, requiring attending physicians to furnish for registration certain facts relating to deceased persons, is amended so as to read as follows : - Section 3. A physician who has attended a person during his last illness shall, when requested, forthwith furnish for registration, a certificate stating, to the best of his knowledge and belief, the name of the deceased, his age, the disease of which he died, the duration of his last sickness, and the date of his decease. If a physician neglects or refuses to make a certificate, as aforesaid, he shall be pun- ished by a fine not exceeding fifty dollars.


SECTION 2. Section five of said chapter, prohibiting the burial or removal of a human body until a proper certificate is fur- nished, is amended so as to read as follows : - Section 5. No undertaker, sexton or other person shall bury in a city or town or remove therefrom the body of a deceased person nntil he has received a permit so to do from the board of health or its duly appointed agent, or, if there is no board of health in such city or town, from the city or town clerk. No such permit shall be issued until there has been delivered to such board, or agent or clerk, as the case may be, a satisfactory written state- ment containing the facts required by this chapter to be returned and recorded, together with the certificate of the attending physician, if any, as required by section three of this chapter, or in lien thereof a certificate as hereinafter provided. If there is no attending physician, or if the certificate of the attending physician cannot be obtained, for good and sufficient reasons, early enough for the purpose, the chairman of the board of health or any physician employed by a city or town for the purpose shall, upon request of said board, agent or clerk, make snch certificate as is required of the attending physician; and in case of death by violence, the medical examiner shall, if requested, make the same. When such satisfactory statement and certificate are de- livered to the board of health or to its agent, the board or agent shall forthwith countersign and transmit the same to the clerk or registrar for registration. The person to whom the permit is so given shall thereafter furnish for registration any other information as to the deceased or to the manner and cause of the death, as the clerk or registrar may require. Any person violating any of the provisions of this . zion shall be punished by a fine not exceeding fifty dollars. [Approved May 4, 1888.


10


Commonbocalth of Massachusetts.


No.


RETURN OF A DEATH. To the Clerk of the Town in which the Death occurred.


Karl 29 - 593


1. Date of Death, .


2. Name,


(Maiden Name),*


(Name of Husband),*


3. Sex, and whether single, Married, or Widowed,


4. Color,t


5. Age, .


06


.. Years,


Months,


Days.


Disease or Cause of Death, (Primary and Secondary), #


Helloles


10 clay 0


6. Duration of Sickness, . By whom certified,


7. Residence,


8. Occupation, .


9. Place of Death, . . .


10. Place of Birth, . . ...


11. Name of Father, ·


12. Name of Mother, ·


(Maiden Name),


13. Birthplace of Father, .


14. Birthplace of Mother, .


15. Place of Interment,


Signature of Undertaker or other person making the Return, .


DATED at Preluces Jord


, o11 18


* If a Married Woman or Widow. # If a Soldier who served in the War of the Rebellion.


{ If other than White. (M.) Mulatto. (I.) Indian. If of other Races, specify what.


[Be very particular to fill all Blanks.] l'late. Ed. Nov. 1890-5,000.


Ireland


( tweeit


Rose - Fun


Ireland 11


12


......


[ACTS OF 1888, CHAF. 306.]


AN ACT


RELATING TO THE CERTIFICATES AND REGISTRY OF DEATHS, AND THE BURIAL AND REMOVAL OF BODIES OF DECEASED PERSONS.


Be it enacted, etc., as follows :


SECTION 1. Section three of chapter thirty-two of the Public Statutes, requiring attending physicians to furnish for registration certain facts relating to deceased persons, is amended so as to read as follows : - Section 3. A physician who has attended a person during his last illness shall, when requested, forthwith furnish for registration, a certificate stating, to the best of his knowledge and belief, the name of the deceased, his age, the disease of which he died, the duration of his last sickness, and the date of his decease. If a physician neglects or refuses to make a certificate, as aforesaid, he shall be pun- ished by a fine not exceeding fifty dollars.


SECTION 2. Section five of said chapter, prohibiting the burial or removal of a human body until a proper certificate is fur- nished, is amended so as to rcad as follows : - Section 5. No undertaker, sexton or other person shall bury in a city or town or remove therefrom the body of a deceased person until he has received a permit so to do from the board of health or its duly appointed agent, or, if there is no board of health in such city or town, from the city or town clerk. No such permit shall be issued until there has been delivered to suchi board, or agent or clerk, as the case may be, a satisfactory written statc- ment containing the facts required by this chapter to be returned and recorded, together with the certificate of the attending physician, if any, as required by section three of this chapter, or in lieu thereof a certificate as hereinafter provided. If there is no attending physician, or if the certificate of the attending physician cannot be obtained, for good and sufficient reasons, early enough for the purpose, the chairman of the board of healthi or any physician employed by a city or town for the purpose shall, upon request of said board, agent or clerk, make such certificate as is required of the attending physician ; and in case of death by violence, the medical examiner shall, if requested, make the same. When such satisfactory statement and certificate are de- livercd to the board of licalth or to its agent, the board or agent shall forthwith countersign and transinit the same to the clerk or registrar for registration. The person to whom the permit is so given shall thereafter furnish for registration any other information as to the deecased or to the manner and cause of the death, as the clerk or registrar may require. Any person violating any of the provisions of this section shall be punished by a fine not exceeding fifty dollars. [Approved Muy 4, 1888.




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